Scope and Content Note The correspondence pertains primarily to family matters in Tulip and elsewhere, religious concerns, business and other travel, the Civil War, emigration to California and Texas, and business matters. The business records pertain mostly to William Paisley's general stores in Dobyville and Guerdon, Arkansas. Most of the family correspondence (series 1 and 2) consists of letters written to and from members of the Butler and Paisley families. Other correspondents include Emma's...

Scope and Content Note The two albums contain a total of 83 portraits of members of the extended family of Alexander Butler (1807-1881), a farmer and merchant in Tulip, Arkansas, as well as friends and a number of Methodist clergymen. Fifty-eight negatives and thirty- two 5 x 7 copy photographs made from Emma Paisley's album are also included, as well as thirty-three negatives of grave markers and buildings in Tulip, Arkansas, photographed in the 1980s. Some of these photographs have been published in...