Scope and Content Note MS. ALSs from W. John Swor [Swar?] written while on mining expeditions in California and in other parts of western United States, to his wife, Elizabeth Peel Swor and to his brother-in-law, James W. Peel, both of Carrollton, Arkansas. Letters pertain, for the most part, to personal, familial, and domestic concerns, but some also pertain incidentally to traveling, mining, and living conditions in the western states and in northwest Arkansas, particularly in Carrollton....