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Most of the papers of William Parkhurst Winans were donated to Washington State University Libraries in two installments, the first, in 1935, by Mrs. W.P. Winans and her family, and the second, in 1955, by Mrs. George L. Converse ( W.P. Winans’s daughter) and her son, George L. Converse. Mary W. Avery, an Extension Instructor in Washington History and Government, originally described and organized the papers in 1956; this finding aid was updated by Manuscripts Librarian Robert N. Matuozzi in November of 1999.

BIOGRAPHY

William Parkhurst Winans was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on January 28,1836, one of eight children born to Jonas Wood Winans and Sarah Stiles. W.P Winans’s ancestry can be traced to the Revolutionary War in the figure of one Isaac Winans (1710-1780), who served as a member on the committee of public safety. Isaac Winans died after being imprisoned by the British.

In 1859 W.P. Winans journeyed westward from Springfield, Illinois, arriving at the Umatilla River in Oregon in September of that year. He worked as a warehouseman and schoolteacher in the winter of 1860-1861, and was a clerk of the first Oregon election in 1860. In July of 1861 he moved to Fort Colville, Washington, where he was appointed deputy county auditor of Spokane County before becoming auditor in 1862. During this period Winans’s career followed parallel paths in business and government. He was appointed clerk for the United States district court comprising Spokane and Missoula counties, serving under Judge E.P. Oliphant. Winans’s owned a general store when in 1866 he was elected county superintendent of schools. In 1867, 1868 and 1871, he represented Stevens County in the Washington territorial legislature. A significant part of  Winans’s career began in 1870, with his appointment as Sub-Indian Agent of the six non-treaty tribes in the Colville region that had declined to make peace with the Federal government. It was in this capacity that, in 1872, he successfully argued against the directive of President Grant that would have given the Colville Valley Indian tribes areas in Stevens County where white settlers had previously established themselves under laws associated with "pre-emption" and homestead rights. This decision caused a great deal of controversy at the time. W.P. Winans was married to Lydia (or Lidia) Moore (d. 1876) in 1868 or 1869, and to Christine McRae in 1879.

In 1874 Winans moved from Colville to Walla Walla, entering into the mercantile firm of Johnson, Rees & Co. (later Rees, Winans & Co.) He traveled widely in Europe during this period and had local interests in farming, merchandising, freighting, and banking. He was also active in civic, church, and business affairs, serving in the latter capacity as a member of the board of directors of First National Bank of Walla Walla and as President of Farmer’s Savings Bank from 1890 until 1917. William Parkhurst Winans died on April 22, 1917.

ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

The archive of William Parkhurst Winans consists of business and government records, diaries and correspondence, and manuscripts on church matters and Stevens County (Washington) history. Also included are clippings, photographs, maps, memorabilia, and miscellaneous material.

The business records show cartage rates (wagon freighting) for the Pacific Northwest, prices for goods, rates and patterns of commodities consumption, freight routes, stock inventories, and banking and investment information for the Walla Walla region.

The church material chiefly centers on the First Presbyterian Church of Walla Walla, and includes both printed and manuscript records.

The material relating to the history of Stevens County, Washington, consists of the letters¾ first-hand accounts, observations, and reminiscences¾ that Winans acquired in the course of gathering information and resources for an unpublished typescript titled "Stevens County, Washington: Its Creation, Addition, Subtraction and Division" (1904). A notable item here is a 6-leave holograph document from the Fall of 1897 that purports to be an eyewitness account of the Whitman Massacre, as told by a Mrs. Delaney (formerly Matilda Sager) to P.M. Winans. The prominent frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner urged Winans to preserve his diaries because they would provide future historians with invaluable primary source material on the details of pioneer life in the Pacific Northwest.

The Indian material dating from Winans’s period as Sub-Indian Agent is significant. A noteworthy item is an 1870 census of the Indian tribes in northeastern Washington (Territory), including the Okanagans, Calispels (or Pend’ Oreilles), San Poils and Nespelems, Senijexsees or Lakes, Wenatchees and Isle d'Pierres, Mishouies, Spokanes, and the Swielpees (or Colvilles). This material includes detailed verbatim reports on speeches given by chiefs in tribal councils, descriptions of the social and economic situation of the region’s tribes, and notes on how the Indians viewed white people and white society.

SERIES ARRANGEMENT

The William Parhurst Winans Papers were initially arranged and calendared by Mary W. Avery around 1956. Avery assigned the following seven series and subseries to Winans’s archive. Robert Matuozzi, Manuscripts Librarian, updated the finding aid in November of 1999. Idiosyncrasies in Avery’s descriptive inventory have almost always been retained, with some minor modifications for the sake of currency, clarity and accuracy. Individual entries are followed by notations in parentheses. The notations consisting of numbers or numbers followed by alphabetic subdivisions indicate the item number within a given folder. The bold type separated from these notations by a slash indicates the box where a particular item (and/or folder) may be located. Thus (55-C/Box 6) means that item 55-C may be found in Folder 55 in Box 6.

A container list, listing the elements of this collection in item order, is also available.

For more information about these papers, see:

Mary W. Avery, "The W. Park Winans Manuscripts," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 47 (January 1956): 15-20.

Abbreviations:

l. = leaf or leaves
ms. = manuscript
v. = volume or volumes

Series 1: Correspondence, ca. 1856-1917

Subseries 1.1: Outgoing Correspondence
Subseries 1.2: Incoming Correspondence

Series 2: Business and Professional Records, 1855-1916

Subseries 2.1: 1855-1873
Subseries 2.2: 1869-1872 (Indian Agent material)
Subseries 2.3: 1877-1916.

Series 3: Manuscripts, Diaries, etc., 1857-1917, n.d.

Series 4: Photographs and Drawings, 1827-1906, n.d.

Series 5: Series 5: Printed Material and Personal Accounts, 1867-1917, n.d.

Series 6: Maps and Plans, 1880-1885, n.d.

Series 7: Miscellaneous, 1815-1915, n.d.

Letter, July 19, [1856?], Rockport, Illinois, to Mother (Sarah Stiles Winans). 2 1. holograph signed. (55-C/Box 6)

Letters to his family, October 15, 1864-August 5, 1865. 36 p. ms. (2/Box 1 )

Letter, July 11, 1868, Fort Colville, to Jonas Wood Winans, Pittsfield, Illinois, re: Abrams, Brown and Winans store. 2 1. holograph signed. (62-F/Box 8)

Letter, July 28, 1868, Fort Colville, to Territorial Treasurer, Olympia, re: cost bill on case of Washington Territory vs. William Reilly. 1 1. holograph signed. (7-K/Box 1)

Letterbook, January 24, 1870-September 14, 1872. 1 v. ms. (34/Box 4)

Letterbook, January 2, 1871-June 18, 1873, Fort Colville. 1 v. ms. (23/Box 3)

Letters, April-July, 1871, Fort Colville, to Judge J.K. Kenedy, Walla Walla. 3 items. holograph signed. Final letter contains poststscript resignation of WPW as Clerk, U.S. District Court. (48/Box 6)

Letter, September 9, 1871, Fort Colville, to Henry Winslow Corbett, U. S. Senator, re: Indian lands. 2 1. holograph signed. (38-A-9/Box 5)

Letter, September 14, 1872, Fort Colville, to John A. Simms, Special Indian Agent, re: WPW resignation as Farmer on the Colville Reservation. 1 1. holograph signed. Apparently a draft. (38-A-10/Box 5)

Letterbook, June 28, 1873-October 29, 103. 1 v. ms. (30/Box 4)

Letterbook, September 21, 1873-August 22, 1881. 1 v. ms. (67-A/Box 10)

Letter, October 15, 1877, Walla Walla, to D. F. Percival re: railroad rates and Dr. Baker's railroad. 2 1. holograph signed. (56-V/Box 6)

Letterbook, August 1, 1881-May 15, 1885. 1 v. ms. (67-B/Box 10)

Letter, August 2, 1899, Seattle, to My Dear Wife, re: trip to Seattle. 1 1. holograph signed (21/Box 2)

Letterbook, October 8, 1901-March 18, 1905. 1 v. ms. (28/Box 4)

Letter, February 19, 1904, Walla Walla, to Father Cataldo, Gonzaga College, Spokane, re: Colville missions. 1 1. holograph signed. (16-P/Box 2)

Letter, February 22, 1904, Walla Walla, to F. Wolff, Colville, re: Douglass sawmill in Stevens County. Note by F. Wolff. 2 1. holograph signed. (16-F/Box 2)

Letter, March 18, 1904, Walla Walla, to James Monaghan, Spokane re: sale of Spokane Bridge. Monoghan’s reply on the same page. 1 1. holograph signed. (16-Q/Box 2)

Letterbook, March 20, 1905-May 31, 1907. 1 v. ms. (60/Box 8)

Memorandum book with copies of correspondence, ca. 1907? 1 v. ms. (52/Box 6)

Letterbook, June 1, 1907-May 4, 1914. 1 v. ms. (29/Box 4)

Letterbook, July 11, 1914-April 14, 1917. 1 v. ms. (59/Box 8)

Moore, George A. Letter, n.d., San Francisco, to E. Myron Wolf, Insurance Commissioner, San Francisco. 8 p. typescript (carbon) Re: taxation on insurance companies. (3-B/Box 1)

Crane, Frances. Letter, July 27, 1848, to WPW, Pittsfield, Illinois, recounting an incident with a moral. 2 1. holograph signed. (55-B/Box 6)

Watson & Abbott. Letter, May 4, 1857, Pittsfield, Illinois, recommending WPW for employment. 2 1. ms. (56-D/Box 6)

Mace Talcott & Co. Letter, May 5, 1857, Rockport, Illinois, recommending WPW for employment. 2 1. ms. (56-C/Box 6)

Lougenbeel, Pinkney. Letter, July, 1861, Fort Colville, to Spokane County Commissioners re: Indians and liquor. 2 1. ms. signed. (38-A-8/Box 5)

Winans, Jonas Wood. Letters, 1864-1871, Pittsfield, Illinois, to WPW re: family and financial matters and local news. 12 items, holograph signed. (62 D-E, G-L/Box 8)

Whitman, G.B. Letter, April 15, 1865, Walla Walla to Ferguson & Smith, Colville certifying authorization of WPW to settle accounts. 1 1. holograph signed. (47-C/Box 6)

Memoranda: Indians in that portion of Washington Territory [tribal names and descriptions, ca. 1869] 2 1. ms. (41-A/Box 6)

McKenny, Thomas J. Correspondence, April 20, 1869-July 31, 1872, Olympia, Washington, to WPW re: administration of Indian affairs at Fort Colville. 39 items. ms. (45/Box 6)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, December 2, 1869, Olympia, to WPW re: appointment as Industrial Instructor for Colville, Spokane and other Indians east of the Cascades. 2 1. ms. signed. (41-U/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, February 1, 1870, to WPW re: salary vouchers. 1 1. holograph signed. (41-B/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, March 2, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: making reports. 2 1. holograph signed. (40-C/Box 5)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, April 11, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: report on conditions of Indians. 2 1. ms. signed. (41-D/Box 6)

Freemasons. Olympia Lodge. Receipt of dues, April 18, 1870, Olympia, to WPW. 1 1. ms.(56-E/Box 6)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, April 18, 1870, Olympia, to Mr. Harvey re: authorization for WPW to use interpreter Herring. 1 1. ms. signed. (41-E/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, May 19, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: electioneering for Garfield. 2 1. holograph signed. (41-F/Box 6)

Census of Calispel or Pend 'Oreille Indians, June, 1870. 4 1. ms. (44-C/Box 6)

Census of Swi-el-pee or Colville Indians, June, 1870. 6 1. ms. (44-A/Box 6)

Rea, John L. Letter, June 2, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: salary vouchers. 1 1. holograph signed. (41-G/Box 6)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, June 22, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: Circular letter of E.S. Parker, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, June 1., 1870, re: annual reports. 1 1. (Ross’s note is on face of the Circular Letter) (41-H/Box 6)

Census of the Mishouie Indians, July, 1870. 2 1. ms. (44-G/Box 6)

Census of the Okanagan Indians, July, 1870. 4 1. ms. (44-B/Box 6)

Census of the Sanpoil & Nespeelum Indians, July, 1870. 4 1. ms. (44-D/Box 6)

Census of the Wenatchee and Isle de Pierre Indians, July, 1870. 2 1. ms. (44-H/Box 6)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, July 31, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: Robert McKay's check for interpreter’s services. 1 1. ms. signed. (41-1/Box 6)

Census of the Sen-i-jex or Lake Indians, August, 1870. 2 1. ms.(44-E/Box 6)

Census of the Spokane Indians, August, 1870. 16 1. ms. (44-F/Box 6)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, August 21, 1870, Olympia, to WPW acknowledging receipt of Census reports. 1 1. ms. signed. (41-J/Box 6)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, August 21, 1870, Olympia, to WPW, re: sending of blank vouchers. 1 1. ms. signed. (41-K/Box 6)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, August 21, 1870, Olympia, to WPW acknowledging receipt of reports. 1 l.-ms. signed. (41-L/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, September 15, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: annual report, WPW’s good work and lack of funding of the department. 2 1. holograph signed. (41-M/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, October 1, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: forms and reports. 1 1. holograph signed. (41-N/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, October 1, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: census returns. 1 1. ms. signed. (41-0/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, October 10, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: giving blankets to Kamiaken. 2 1. holograph signed. (41-P/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, October 11, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: vouchers and checks. 1 1. ms. signed. (41-Q/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, October 13, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: cutting back expenses. 1 1. holograph signed. (41-R/Box 6)

Winans, W.P. Letter, October 14, 1870, Fort Colville to B. S. Pardee, Olympia, re: forwarding of census forms. 1 1. ms. (41-S/Box 6)

Pardee, Benjamin S. Letter, November 3, 1870, Olympia, to WPW re: filling out reports. 2 1. holograph signed. (41-V/Box 6)

Ross, Samuel. Letter, November 8, 1870, Olympia to WPW re: check for Robert McKay, interpreter. 1 1. ms. signed. (41-T/Box 6)

Petition to Selucius Garfield, Delegate from Washington Territory, from the members of the Grand and Petit Juries of the District Court of the First Judicial District re: withdrawal of troops from Fort Colville, June 13, 1871. 3 1. ms. (38-A-7/Box 5)

Affidavit of WPW in case of May Ogden vs. Steve Liberty, June 26, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-A-12/Box 5)

Bond of Mary Ogden and WPW in case against Steve Liberty, June 26, 1871. 1 1. ms.(38-A-11/Box 5)

Bond of Mary Ogden and WPW in case against Steve Liberty, June 26, 1871. 1 1. ms.(38-A-13/Box 5)

Ogden, Mary. Statement of Mary Ogden re: stolen horse, June 27, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-A-14/Box 5)

Petition, October 5, 1871, Rock Creek, to WPW re: cattle theft by Indians. 1 1. ms. copy. (38-B-4/Box 5)

Sherwood, S.F. Letter, October 9, 1871, Fort Colville, to WPW, re: Lieut. Sherman and troops scaring the Indians and cattle thefts by Indians. 2 1. holograph signed. (38-B-3/Box 5)

Sherwood, S.F. Letter, October 21, 1871, Fort Colville, to WPW re: Quci-Quci-tas and cattle losses at Rock Creek. 1 1. holograph signed. (38-B-5/Box 5)

Sherwood, S.F. Letter, November 6, 1871, Fort Colville, to WPW re: Rock Creek cattle thefts and political news. 2 1. holograph signed. (38-B-7/Box 5)

Report of an interrogation of MacDougall by John P. C. Shanks re: the military and Indian agents at Colville, ca. 1872. 2 1. ms. (39-B/Box 5)

Ogden, Mary. Receipt for Forty Dollars for stolen horse, March 30, 1872. 1 1. ms. signed. (38-A-15/Box 5)

Milroy, Robert Huston. Letter, August 17, 1872, Olympia, to WPW re: turning over administration of the reservation to John A. Simms. 2 1. ms. signed. (38-A-3/Box 5)

Milroy, Robert Huston. Letter, October 3, 1872, Olympia, to WPW re: purchase of saw mill for Colville Reservation. 1 1. ms. signed. (38-A-2/Box 5)

Milroy, Robert Huston. Letter, October 10, 1872, Olympia, to WPW re: approval of purchase of saw mill for Colville Reservation. 1 1. ms. signed. (38-A-1/Box 5)

Belknap, William Worth. Letter, March 28, 1873, Washington, D. C. to Selucius Garfield, Washington, D. C. re: Winans’s question on the abandonment of Fort Colville and the withdrawal of troops. 2 1. ms. signed, with envelope addressed to WPW. (38-A-6/Box 5)

Stiles, Sue. Letter, July 21, 1873, Buttonwood Hall, to IWPW?] re: family gossip. 2 1. holograph signed. (62-B/Box 8)

Young, H.E. Certificate, November 3, 1873, Yakama City, that there is due F. M. Randolph $100 for transporting prisoners. 1 1. holograph signed. Endorsed, F. M. Randolph to Jesse Logden, March 9, 1874; Jesse F. Logsdon to WPW, May 13, 1874. (51-B/Box 6)

Young, H. E. Letter, February 4, 1874, Fort Colville, to Joseph Lafnay,County Treasurer, noting accounts to be paid. 1 1. holograph signed. (51-A/Box 6)

Wiggins, A. W. Letter, May 9, 1874, Portland, Oregon, to Henry Wellington, in defense of Shanks’ attacks. 7 1. ms. "First draft of a letter... the one sent was much shorter, toned down and considerably changed." (39-C-1/Box 5)

Petition in support of Evan Miles, May 25, 1874. 2 1. ms. copy. (39-C-4/Box 5)

McDonald, Angus. Letter, May 26, 1874, Fort Colville, to Evan Miles, re: support of Miles’ character. 1 1. ms. copy. (39-C-3/Box 5)

Petition, to whom it may concern, re: validity of Shanks’ derogatory statements about the character of A. W. Wiggins, May 29, 1874. 2 1. ms. (39-C-2/Box 5)

Demans, Amos. Receipt, June 29, 1874, Walla Walla of WPW for transporting prisoners and guard for the sheriff of Stevens co. 1 1. ms. signed. (51/Box 6)

McDonald, Angus. Letter, July 17, 1874, Fort Colville, to A. W. Wiggins, Portland, Oregon, re: events at Colville and attacks on Wiggins. 2 1. holograph signed. (39-C-5/Box 5)

Schulze, Paul, General Land Agent, Northern Pacific Railroad Company, form letter to Charles M. Holton, January 4, 1883, re: affidavits. 1 1. (3-V-2/Box 1)

McFalland, T. C., Commissioner General. Letter, July 7, 1883, Washington, D.C. land office to WPW re: homestead entries in Lewiston, Idaho. (3-V-8/Box 1)

Allen, Levi. Letter, December 15, 1889, Salubria, to WPW re: copper mines. 1 1. holograph signed. (7-M/Box 1)

Clark, E.S. Letter, April 2, 1896, Walla Walla to WPW, Walla Walla, thanking him for services rendered the First Baptist Church in the absence of a pastor. 1 1. holograph signed. (56-Y/Box 6)

Williams, Christina McDonald. Letter, ca. 1903, to WPW re: David McLoughlin’s book on his father. 1 1. holograph signed. (15-A-4/Box 1)

Wolff, Francis. Letters, to WPW, re: Stevens County history. ca. 1903-1904. 12 1. holograph signed. (14-B/Box 1)

Sherwood, S F.Letter., May 7, 1903, Colville, to WPW, re: Stevens County commissioner’s journal. 3 1. holograph signed. (15-B/Box 1)

Williams, Christina McDonald. Letter, May 14, 1903, Harpster, Idaho, to WPW re: her father Angus McDonald. 3 1. holograph signed. (15-A-2/Box 1)

Williams, Christina McDonald. Letter, May 25, 1903, Harpster, Idaho to WPW re: how the Colville Indians became Christians. 4 1. holograph signed. (15-A-3/Box 1)

Sherwood, S.F. Letter, June [1903] Colville, to WPW, re; records of Stevens County, Father Louis Vanzina, other Stevens County History. 4 1. holograph signed. (15-B/Box 1)

Williams, Christina McDonald. Letter, June 5, 1903, Harpster, Idaho, to WPW re: Colville Indians. 4 1. holograph signed. (15-A-5/Box 1)

Pilippi, S M., S.J., Gonzaga College. Letter, June 11, 1903, Spokane, Washington, to Mr. S. F. Sherwood, Colville, re: spelling of name: Louis Vanzina. 1 1. ms. (15-C/Box 1)

Sherwood, S. F. Letter, June 17, 1903, Colville, to WPK re: Republicans in Stevens County. 1 1. holograph signed. (15-D/Box 1)

Sherwood, S. F. Letter, June 29, 1903, Colville, to WPW re: Republican organizers, Stevens County, 1869. 2 1. holograph signed. (15-D/Box 1)

Besserer, Charles. Letter, July 7, 1903, Oakland, California, to WPW re: reminiscences of Stevens County history. 3 1. holograph signed. (15-E/Box 1)

Prosch., Thomas W. Letter, July 9, 1903, Seattle, to WPW re: Washington Territorial Legislature. 9 1. holograph signed. (15-F/Box 1)

Prosch., Thomas W. Letter, July 12, 1903, Seattle, to WPW re: Stevens County legislators, 1866-67. 2 1. holograph signed. (15-F/Box 1)

Besserer, Charles. Letter, July 14, 1903, Oakland, California, to WPW re: military service at Fort Colville in the 1860's. 2 1. holograph signed. (15-E/Box 1)

Williams, Christina McDonald. Letter, August, 1903, Spalding, Idaho, to WPW re: trip to Colville. 1 1. holograph signed. Attached is clipping from the Seattle Post Intelligencer, November 20, 1904 re: Old Hudson Bay Fort Colville. (15-A-1/Box 1)

Prosch, Thomas W. Letter, August 4, 1903, Seattle, to WPK re: representation in the Washington Territorial legislature. 5 1. holograph signed. (14-A/Box 1)

Sherwood, S. F. Letter, August 18, 1903, Colville, to WPW re: Stevens County courthouse. 1 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (14-C/Box 1)

Monaghan, J. Letter, August 26, 1903, Spokane, to WPW re: Stevens County Ferry. 1 1. holograph.signed, with envelope. (14-D/Box 1)

Montgomery, C. H. Letter, August 29, 1903, Chewelah, to WPW re: location of Stevens County seat. 1 1. holograph signed. (14-E/Box 1)

Sherwood, S. F. Letter, September 1, 1903, Colville, to WPW re: removal of Stevens County seat. 2 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (14-F/Box 1)

Wolff, Francis. Letter [September 5, 1903] Colville, to WPW, re: Spokesman-Review article about Governor Stevens, Angus McDonald, and George B. McClellan. 2 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (14-G/Box 1)

Rose, A. Letter, September 12, 1903, Colville, to WPW re: grist mill at Meyers Falls. 1 1. typescript, signed. Clipping encl.: A historic building, the Hudson Bay Company’s old mill, from the Colville Statesman Index, Aug 25, 1899. (14-H/Box 1)

Wolff, Francis. Letter, September 18, 1903, Colville to WPW re: John Mullan and freighting on the Mullan Road. 2 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (14-1)

Thomason, Mary Brown. Letter, September 28, 1903, Chewelah., to WPW re: her mother and father. 1 1. holograph signed, with envelope. Enclosed is ms. copy of newspaper article on the Brown's fiftieth wedding anniversary. 3 1. (14-J/Box 1)

Hauser, John. Letter, November 4, 1903, Florence, Italy, to WPW, re-, Hudson Bay mill. 2 1. holograph signed. (14-K/Box 1)

Wolff, Francis. Letter, ca.. 1904, to WPW, re: sale of personal property. 1 1. holograph signed. (16-B/Box 1)

Wolff, Francis. Letter, January 30, 1904, Colville, to WPW re: Stevens County history, losses at McLaughlin Canyon. 3 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (16-A/Box 2)

Montgomery, C. H. Letter, February 13, 1904, Chewelah, to WPW re: reminiscences. 2 1. holograph signed. (16-C/Box 2)

Wolff, Francis. Letter, February 15, 1904, Colville, to WPW re: Hudson Bay trader. 1 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (16-E/Box 2)

Montgomery, C. H. Letter, February 22, 1904, Chewelah, Washington, to WPW re: mills in Stevens County. 2 1. holograph signed. (16-D/Box 2)

Percival, D. F. Letter, February 23, 1904, Cheney, to WPW re: Stevens County legislators. 1 1. holograph signed. (16-G/Box 2)

Thomason, Mary L. Letter, February 26, 1904, Chewelah, to WPW re: Brown family history. 1 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (16-H/Box 2)

Burgunder, Benjamin. Letter, February 28, 1904, Colfax, to WPW re: flour mills in Stevens County. 3 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (16-1/Box 2)

Burgunder, Benjamin. Letter, March 2, 1904, Colfax, to WPW re: Stevens County legislators. 1 1. holograph signed. (16-J/Box 2)

Lee, Francis. Letter, March 2, 1904,, Tekoa, to WPW re; Spokane Bridge. 2 1. holograph signed. (16-T/Box 2)

Wolff, Francis. Letter, March 2, 1904, Colville, To KPW re: Pend Oreille saw mill. 1 1. holograph signed. (16-K/Box 2)

Prosch., Thomas. Letter, March 4, 1904, Seattle, to WPW re: receipt of Winans’ Stevens County History. 3 1. ms. with envelope. (7-A/Box 1)

Burgunder, Benjamin. Letter, March 6, 1904, Colfax, to WPW re: Stevens County history. 5 1. holograph signed. (16-L/Box 2)

Ferguson, James F. Letter, March 6, 1904, Baker City, Oregon to WPW, re: his father in Stevens County. 1 1. typescript signed, with envelope. (16-M/Box 2)

Cataldo, Joseph M. Letter, March 7, 1904, Spokane, Washington, Gonzaga College, to WPW re: Colville missions. 1 1. holograph signed. (16-0/Box 2)

Campbell, Mary. Letter, March 7, 1904, Spalding, Idaho, to WPW re: her mother, Christina Williams. 1 1. holograph signed. (15-A-6/Box 1)

Hofstetter, John U. Letter, March 7, 1904, Colville, to WPW re: important dates in his life. 1 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (16-N/Box 2)

Montgomery, C. H. Letter, March 24, 1904, Chewelah, to WPW re: personal history, road building in Stevens County. 2 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (16-R/Box 2)

Lee, Francis. Letter, March 26, 1904, Tekoa, to WPW re: mills in Stevens County. 1 1. holograph signed. (16-S/Box 2)

Hofstetter, J. U. Letter, April 6, 1904, Colville, to WPW re: Stevens County history. 1 1. holograph signed. (17-A/Box 2)

Meyers, L. W. Letter, April 22, 1904, Meyers Falls, to WPW re: Stevens County history. 5 1. ms. Signed L. W. Meyers by J. A. Meyers. (17-B/Box 2)

Meyers, L W.Letter, April 28, 1904, Meyers Falls, to WPW re: Stevens County history. 2 1. ms. Signed: L. W. Meyers by J.A.M. (17-C/Box 2)

Meyers, L. W. Letter, May 10, 1904, Meyers Falls, to WPW re: personal and Stevens County history. 2 1. ms. Signed: L. W. Meyers by J.A.M. (17-D/Box 2)

Sherwood, S. F. Letter, June 3, 1904, Colville., to WPW re: personal history. 2 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (17-E/Box 2)

Bingley, John Sherwood. Letter, June 20, 1904, Spaulding, Idaho, to WPW re: Stevens County history. 2 1. Holograph signed. (17-F/Box 2)

Eells, Myron. Letter, July 18, 1904, Twana, Washington, to WPW re: his father’s trip to Colville. 2 1. holograph, with envelope. (17-G/Box 2)

Eells, Myron. Letter, August 1, 1904, Twana, Washington to WPW re: his father’s trip to Colville. 1 1. holograph signed. (17-H/Box 2)

Envelope from Ben Burgunder to WPW, December 6, 1904. (3-V-1/Box 1)

Prosch, Thomas W. Letter, February 2, 1905, Seattle, to WPW, re: publication of Stevens County History. 1 1. holograph signed. (7-D/Box 1)

Moore, P. D. Letter, August 29, 1906, Olympia, to WPW, re: Marcel Bernier, first white child in the State of Washington. 1 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (7-1/Box 1)

Burgunder, Ben. Letter, December 6, 1906, Colfax, to WPW, re: reminiscences of Stevens County history. 4 1. holograph signed. (7-J/Box 1)

Sherwood, S. Fred. Letter, November 30, 1909, Colville, to WPW, re: 1872 earthquake and Quil-las-kin, an Indian who died and returned to life. 3 1. holograph signed. (7-H/Box 1)

Dewart, Frederick W. Letter, June 13, Spokane, to WPW, re: acquiring a copy of "Early Days at Fort Colville" for Harvard Univerisity. 1 1. typescript signed. (7-E/Box 1)

Dewart, Frederick W. Letter, June 17, 1913, Spokane, to WPW, re: copies of his diary for Harvard and Washington State College. 1 1. typescript, signed. Pencilled note: Wrote & sent manuscript, July 2, 1913. (7-F/Box 1)

Russell, Thomas. Letter, April 9, 1914, Pullman, to Mrs. Winans, re: Canadian history. 5 1. holograph signed. (7-L/Box 1)

Harvard University. Receipt, April 30, 1914, of Winans' Stevens County History. 1 1. (7-B/Box 1)

Turner, Frederick Jackson. Letter, May 4, 1914, Cambridge, Mass., to WPW, re: Stevens County History and Winans' diaries. 1 1. holograph signed. (7-C/Box 1)

Currier, T. Franklin, Asst. Librarian, Harvard College Library. Letter, May 9, 1914, Cambridge, Mass., to WPW re: receipt of Stevens County history. 1 1. typescript, signed. (7-G/Box 1)

Warren, Eliza S. Letter, August 23, 1916, Seattle, to Mrs. R.P. Winans, re: life in Seattle and travel plans. 1 1. holograph signed, with envelope. (7-N/Box 1)

Slater, John B. Letter, March 25, 1917, Colville, to WPW, re: Stevens County history and events. 2 1. typescript, signed, with envelope. Note on envelope: answ’d March 30-17. (7-0/Box 1)

Salter, Jennie. Letter, September 1, 1922, Olympia, to Christine Winans, Walla Walla, re: pamphlet on financial condition of the Territory of Washington, 1864. 2 1. ms. with envelope. (5-A/Box 1)

Talcott, C. R. Letter, April 19, 1935, Olympia, to P.M. Winans, re: enclosed letter from Winans to Territorial Treasurer. 1 1. typescript, signed. (7-K/Box 1)

Correspondence between the Winans Family and Washington State University, 1935-1962. re: the Papers of WPW. 39 items.(68/Box 10)

Accounts and memoranda, 1855-1856. 1 v. ms. (66-B-1/Box 10)

Accounts and memoranda, 1862-1902. 1 v. ms. (66--B-3/Box 10)

Accounts and memoranda, 1863-1865. 1 v. ms. (66-B-2/Box 10)

Spokane County. Treasurer. CJ. R. Bates) Statements, June 9, 1863, signed by WPW as Deputy Treasurer. 2 1. ms. (5-C/Box 1)

Accounts, 1865. 1 1. ms. (40-A-3/Box 5)

Big Bend Mining District. Profit and loss, ca. 1866. 2 1. ms. (40-B-8/Box 5)

Old Fort Store notes and accounts, ca. 1866. 1 1. ms. (40-A-14/Box 5)

Indian & half-breed accounts, 1866-1867. 1 1. ms. (40-A-4/Box 5)

Statement of Abrams & Co. business done at French Creek, B.C. for the year 1866. 2 1. ms. (40-B-6/Box 5)

Accounts and memoranda, 1867-1877. 1 v. ms. (66-B-4/Box 9)

Accounts, old fort store, 1867-1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-1/Box 5)

Ledger, Fort Colville, April 9, 1867-April 23, 1869. 1 v. ms. (22/Box 2)

Letters of administration and papers of the estate of George A. Paige. WPW, Fort Colville, executor, 1868-1870. 14 items. ms. (47-A/Box 6)

Balance sheet of Abrams & Co business for year ending April 26, 1868. 2 1. ms. (40-A-13/Box 5)

Trial balance of Abrams & Co. books, April 26, 1868. 2 1. ms.(40-A-10/Box 5)

Accounts, May 1, 1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-16/Box 5)

Bills receivable, May 1, 1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-15/Box 5)

List of accounts charged to profit and loss as shown by ledger A & B, Fort Colville Store., May 1, 1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-12/Box 5)

List of accounts from petty ledger due, Abrams & Co. May 1, 1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-11/Box 5)

Trial balance of Abrams & Co. books, May 1, 1868. 2 1. ms. (40-A-9/Box 5)

Bills receivable of Abrams & Co. at Fort Colville Store, May 1, 1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-8/Box 5)

List of French Creek accounts belonging to Old Fort Store, contracted 1865. May 1, 1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-7/Box 5)

List of accounts due Abrams & Co. from store at Whites Landing. Whites Landing, May 1. 1868. 2 1. ms. (40-A-6/Box 5)

Old Fort Store. Accounts of Colville Store, May 1, 1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-5/Box 5)

List of French Creek accounts belonging to Old Fort Store, May 1, 1868. 1 1. ms. (40-A-2/Box 5)

List of Petty ledger accounts, 1869. 2 1. ms. (40-B-1/Box 5)

Notice of bankruptcy of Lewis L. Talcott and Isaac G. Hodgen, Spring field, Illinois, 1869. 2 1. printed. (62-A/Box 8)

Balance sheet of Brown & Winans business, Ft. Colville, n.d. 2 1. ms. (l - B/Box 1)

Balance sheet of Brown & Winans for the year ending April 22, 1869. 6 1. ms. (40-B-2/Box 5)

Accounts due Brown & Winans at Old Fort Store, April 23, 1869. 2 1. ms. (40-B-7/Box 5)

Old Fort Store inventory papers, relating to inventory of April 23, 1869 5 1. ms. (40-B-3-5/Box 5)

Notes due, Brown & Winans, ca. 1870. 2 1. ms. (1-E/Box 1)

Brown & Winans. In account with W. P. Winans, 1870-1871. 2 1. ms. (1-J/Box 1)

Notice of dissolution of partnership between W. V. Brown and W.P. Winans, May 1, 1870. 1 clipping. (56-T/Box 6)

Brown & Winans. Statement of the business, July 1, 1870. 3 1. ms. (1-K/Box 1)

Brown & Winans. Statement of business, May 1. 1870-July 1, 1870. 2 1. MS. (1-I/Box 1)

Trial balance and balance of W. P. Winans books, May 1. 1871. 3 1. ms. (1-H/Box 1)

Brown & Winans. Accounts at the Old Fort Store unpaid, May 1, 1871. 1 1. folded. ms. (1-G/Box 1)

Brown & Winans, trial statement, May 1, 1871. 2 1. ms. (1-F/Box 1)

Trial balance of W. P. Winans, Marbh 1, 1872, Fort Colville. 2 1. ms. (1-L/Box 1)

Balance book of W. P. Winans business, May 1, 1871-May 1, 1872. 8 1. ms. (1-N/Box 1)

Trial balance of W. P. Winans, May 1, 1872, Fort Colville. 2 1. ms.(1-M/Box 1)

Balance sheet of W. P. Winan's business, 1872-1873. 2 1. ms. (1-A/Box 1)

Trial balance of W. P. Winans, May 1, 1873, Fort Colville. 2 1. ms.(1-C/Box 1)

W. P. Winans, in account with Brown & Winans, May-December, [1873?] 2 1. ms. (1-D/Box 1)

Receipt, L. W. Meyers, January 26, 1869. 1 1. ms. (38-C-25/Box 5)

Receipt, 12 persons or firms, May 7, 1869. 1 1. ms.(38-C-27/Box 5)

Receipt, Charles W. King, June 4, 1869. 1 1. ms. (38-C-28/Box 5)

Voucher, W. V. Brown, 1870. 1 1. ms. (42-A-14/Box 6)

Vouchers, Bernard Fitzpatrick, 118701 3 1. ms. (42-A-6-/Box 6)

Voucher, John R. Kinsley, 11870] 1 1. ms. (42-A-9/Box 6)

Voucher, Joseph Lapray, 11870] 1 1. ms. (42-A-3/Box 6)

Voucher, James Lee, 1870. 1 1. ms. (42-A-15/Box 6)

Voucher, Charles H. Montgomery, 11870] 1 1. ms. (42-A-5/Box 6)

Voucher, John Duplessis, April 29, 1870. 1 1. ms. (42-A-2/Box 6)

Voucher, Samuel Longshore, July 31, 1870. 1 1. ms. (42-A-13/Box 6)

Voucher, Michael Lafleur, July 31, 1870. 1 1. ms.(42-A-12/Box 6)

Vouchers, Henry Wellington, July 31, 1870. 2 1. ms. (42-A-10-11/Box 6)

Voucher, M. Oppenheimer & Co., July 31, 1870. 1 1. ms. (42-A-4/Box 6)

Vouchers, John W. Hofstetter, November 24, 1870. 2 1. ms. (42-B-3/Box 6)

Voucher, Henry Wellington, November 24, 1870. 2 1. ms. (42-B-5/Box 6)

Receipt, Henry H. D. Shuttleworth, December 1, 1870. (38-C-29/Box 5)

Receipt, David White, December 1, 1870. (38--C-30/Box 5)

List of United States property belonging to the Indian Department at Fort Colville and turned over to Wm. P. Winans by George W. Harvey, December 31, 1870. 1 1. ms. (38-B-13/Box 5)

List of United States Property belonging to the Indian Department at Fort Colville and turned over to Wm. P. Winans by G. W. Harvey, December 31, 1870. 1 1. ms. (38-B-11/Box 5)

Receipt and voucher, Robert McKay, December 31, 1870. 2 1. ms. (42-B-1/Box 6)

Receipt and voucher, Henry Wellington, December 31, 1870. 2 1. ms. (42-B-4/Box 6)

Account with W. V. Brown, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-C-15/Box 5)

Receipts for goods purchased by the Indian Department at Fort Colville, 1871-1872. 19 items. (38-B-26/Box 5)

Statistical return of farming &c of the Indians parties to no treaty east of the Cascade Mountains, Washington Territory, 1871. 2 1. MS. (38-C-3/Box 5)

Vouchers, Michel Lafleur, 1871-1872. 4 1. ms. (42-C-4-6/Box 6)

Vouchers, Samuel Longshore, 1871-1872. 2 1. ms. (42--C-8-10/Box 6)

Voucher, Andrew Mowat, January, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-2/Box 6)

Voucher, Henry Wellington, January, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-6/Box 6)

Return of Indian Department property received, issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter January to March, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-B-14/Box 5)

Return of Indian Department property received, issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter January to March, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-B-15/Box 5)

Statement of purchases at Fort Colville, March 31, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-C-16/Box 5)

Statement A: articles issued as presents to the chiefs, head men and farmers at Fort Colville during the quarter January to March, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-B-19/Box 5)

Statement B: articles issued to old, sick and destitute Indians parties to no treaty at Fort Colville during the quarter January to March, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-B-17/Box 5)

Statement C: account of Indian Department property consumed and expended at Fort Colville for the quarter January to March, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-B-18/Box 5)

Voucher, Robert McKay, March 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-7/Box 6)

Voucher, Bernard Fitzpatrick, March, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-8/Box 6)

Voucher, William A. Hubbard, June, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-11/Box 6)

Voucher, Mechelle Lafleur, June 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-14/Box 6)

Voucher, L. W. Meyers, June, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-13/Box 6)

Voucher, Henry Wellington, June, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-12/Box 6)

Statement of articles purchased for quarter ending June 31, 1871.2 1. ms. (38-B-21/Box 5)

Return of Indian Department property received, issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter April to June, 1871. 4 1. ms. (38-B-25/Box 5)

Return of Indian Department property, 2nd quarter, 1871. 4 1. ms. (38-B-20/Box 5)

Statement A: articles issued as presents to the chiefs, head men and farmers at Fort Colville during quarter April to June, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-B-22/Box 5)

Statement B: articles issued to old, sick and destitute Indians parties to no treaty at Fort Colville during the quarter April to June, 1871 2 1. ms. (38-B-23/Box 5)

Statement C: account of Indian Department property consumed and expended at Fort Colville for the quarter April to June, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-B-24/Box 5)

Bill of W. V. Brown, August-November, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-C-19/Box 5)

Voucher George Herring, September, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-B-15/Box 6)

Voucher William A. Hubbard, September, 1871. 1 1. ms.(42-C-2/Box 6)

Voucher, James Lee, September, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-C-1/Box 6)

Voucher, Samuel Longshore, September, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-C-3/Box 6)

Return of Indian Department property received issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter July to September, 1871. 4 1. ms. (38-C-5/Box 5)

Return of Indian Department property received, issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter July to September, 1871. 4 1. ms. (38-C-2/Box 5)

Statement of articles purchased, ending September 30, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-C-8/Box 5)

Statement A: articles issued as presents to the Chiefs, head men and farmers at Fort Colville during the quarter July to September, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-C-6/Box 5)

Statement B: articles issued to old, sick and destitute Indians parties to no treaty at Fort Colville during the quarter July to September, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-C-7/Box 5)

Statement C: account of Indian Department property consumed and expended at Fort Colville for the quarter July to September, 1871. 1 1. Ms. (38-C-4/Box 5)

Statement C: account of Indian Department property consumed and expended at Fort Colville for the quarter July to September, 1871. 1 1. MS. (38-C-1/Box 5)

Receipt, October 4, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-C-31/Box 5)

Vouchers, William A. Hubbard, December, 1871. 2 1. ms. (42-C-7-8/Box 6)

Voucher, Henry Wellington, December, 1871. 1 1. ms. (42-C-11/Box 6)

Return of Indian Department property received, issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter October to December, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-C-14/Box 5)

Statement of articles purchased, ending December 31, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-C-13/Box 5)

Statement A: articles issued as presents to the chiefs, head men and farmers at Fort Colville during the quarter October to December, 1871. 2 1. ms. (38-C-10/Box 5)

Statement B: articles issued to old, sick and destitute Indians parties to no treaty at Fort Colville during the quarter October to December, 1871. 2 1. ms.(38-C-12/Box 5)

Statement C: Account of Indian Department property consumed and expended at Fort Colville for the quarter October to December, 1871. 1 1. MS. (38-C-11/Box 5)

Blacksmith bill of Fitzpatrick & Co, ca. Dec. 31, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-C-16/Box 5)

Bill of Guy Haines, December 31, 1871. 1 1. ms. (38-C-17/Box 5)

Bill of William A. Hubbard and Henry Wellington, December 31, 1871.1 1. ms. (38-C-9/Box 5)

Inventory of equipment, ca. 1872] 1 1. ms. (43-B/Box 6)

Voucher, Henry Shuttleworth, March, 1872. 1 1. ms, (42-B-9/Box 6)

Voucher, David White, March, 1872. 1 1. ms. (42-B-10/Box 6)

Return of Indian Department property received, issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter January to March, 1872. 2 1. ms. (38-B-10/Box 5)

Statement of purchases, for the quarter ending, March 31, 1872. 2 1. ms. (46-A/Box 6)

Statement A: articles issued as presents to the chiefs, head men and farmers at Fort Colville during the quarter January to March, 1872. 2 1. ms. (38-B-9/Box 5)

Statement B; articles issued to old, sick and destitute Indians parties to no treaty at Fort Colville during the quarter January to March, 1872. 2 1. ms. (38-B-8/Box 5)

Statement C: account of Indian Department property consumed and expended at Fort Colville for the quarter January to March, 1872. 1 1. ms. (38-B-12/Box 5)

Blacksmith bill of James Brady, June, 1872. 1 1. ms. (38-C-23/Box 5)

Voucher, William A. Hubbard, June, 1872. 1 1. ms. (42-C-13/Box 6)

Bill of Charles Kendall, June, 1872. 1 1. ms. (38-C-22/Box 5)

Voucher, Charles Kendall, June, 1872. 1 1. ms. (43-F/Box 6)

Bill of Mechel Lafleur, June, 1872. 1 1. ms. (38-C-24/Box 5)

Voucher, Samuel Longshore, June, 1872. 1 1. ms. (42-C-12/Box 6)

Voucher, F. W. Perkins, June, 1872. 1 1. ms.(43-E/Box 6)

Return of Indian Department property received, issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter ending June, 1872. 2 1. MS. (43-C/Box 6)

Statement of purchases during the second quarter ending June, 1872. 2 1. ms. (43-H/Box 6)

Statement A: articles issued as presents to the chiefs and head men at Fort Colville during the quarter ending June, 1872. 2 1. ms. (43-G/Box 6)

Statement B: articles issued to old, sick and destitute Indians parties to no treaty at Fort Colville during the quarter ending June, 1872. 2 1. ms. (43-A/Box 6)

Statement C: account of Indian Department property consumed expended at Fort Colville for the quarter ending June, 1872. 1 1. ms.(43-D/Box 6)

Bill of Post Baker, June 0, 1872. 1 1. ms. (38-C-20/Box 5)

Bill of Guy Haines, June 10, 1872. 1 1. ms. (38-C-21/Box 5)

Voucher, Mechel Lafleur, July 31, 1872. 1 1. ms. (42-A-1/Box 6)

Receipt, A. E. Kendall, August 24, 1872. 1 1. ms. (38-C-26/Box 5)

Return of Indian Department property received, issued and remaining on hand at Fort Colville during the quarter ending September 31, 1872. 2 1. ms. (46-B/Box 6)

Voucher, G. S. Britton, September 4, 1872. 2 1. ms. (46-C/Box 6)

Bill of M. Laflour & Co, December 28, 1872. 1 1. ms.(38-C-18/Box 5)

Accounts and memoranda, 1877-1880. 1 v. ms. (66--B-5/Box 9)

Account book, 1877-1881. 1 v. ms. Winans as agent for Blalock and Blalock. Walla Walla? (25/Box 3)

Memo book of H. E. Johnson and W. P. Winans, Walla Walla, 1877-1883.1 v. ms. (8-A/Box 1)

Receipt, to Matha E. Cooke as nurse, January 1, 1878. 1 1. ms. (56-Z-1/Box 6)

Memorandum of agreement between Johnson and Winans and E. E. Taylor re: cattle investment, April 16, 1878. 2 1. ms. (8-D/Box 1)

Stage coach way book, with passenger and freight lists, between Lewiston and Dayton, July 2, 1878-December 31, 1878. 1 v. ms.(35/Box 5)

Cash ledger, 1879-1881. 1 v. ms. (27/Box 3)

Accounts and memoranda, 1880-1887. 1 v. ms. (66-B-6/Box 9)

Rees Winans & Co. Receipts, notes and other papers, 1880-1884. 8 items. (8-G/Box 1)

Stage coach way book with passenger and freight lists, between Lewiston and Dayton, January, 1880-March, 1880. 1 v. (24/Box 3)

Deed of promissory note and mortgage of James Moore, December, 1881, to Johnson, Rees and Winans, by Paine Brothers. 1 1. ms. (8-E/Box 1)

Saxe, Rollin P. Certificate of sale, September 5. 1882, one thoroughbred heifer to John Fudge. Transferred from John Fudge to Rev. Brown of Walla Walla. 1 1. ms. (3-V-4/Box 1)

Johnson & Winans. Papers, 1883. Receipts, letter and accounts. Also William B. Thompson's homestead filing certificate, 1878. (8-J/Box 1)

Receipts, 1883, of Winans and Johnson & Winans. 7 items. (8-C/Box 1)

Receipts, 1883, of Winans and Johnson & Winans. 4 items. (8-B/Box 1)

McMorris, Louis M. Papers, 1883-1901. 245 items. Correspondence, receipts, checks and other papers re: real estate.

Johnson & Winans. Account of Joseph.H. Paul, June 7, 1883. 1 1. ms. (8-K/Box 1)

Johnson & Winans. Account of Louis Miller, June 7, 1883. 1 1. ms. (8-L/Box 1)

Ranch, J M. Letter, November 15, 1883, Pomeroy, to Rees, Winans & Co.

re; abstract of Vergel Marks land. 4 1. ms. signed. (8-H/Box 1)

Inventory of W. P. Winans property -- real and personal, 1884. 1 1. ms. (56-R/Box 6)

Accounts and memoranda, 1885-1899. 1 v. ms. (66-B-7/Box 9)

Accounts and memoranda, 1885-1913. 1 v. ms. (66-B-8/Box 9)

Account of Hank Trimble with WPW, ca. 1886. 1 1. ms. (56-K/Box 6)

Sight draft, Hank Trimble to WPW, $26.80, August 28, 1886. 1 1. signed. (56-1/Box 6)

Envelopes with accounts and other notes of WPW and Johnson & Winans. ca. 1883. 2 items. (8-P/Box 1)

Eichler, C H. Letter, March 13, 1884, Walla Walla, to WPW re: note of Mrs. Hunter. 1 1. holograph signed. WPW’s endorsement. (8-M/Box 1)

Holton, Charles M. Letter, April 14, 1884, Yakima to WPW re: deed and bond. 1 1. holograph signed. (8-M/Box 1)

Receipt of Leonard H. Wright and Sarah J. Jones, June 6, 1885. 1 1. ms. (8-1/Box 1)

Ledger, 1889-1915. 1 v. ms. (33/Box 4)

Winans, Sarah J. Receipt, April 14, 1895, for one Plymouth Rock cock from W. P. Winans. 1 1. ms. (21/Box 2)

Accounts and memoranda, 1897-1899. 1 v. ms. (66-B-9/Box 9)

Rees, R R. Letter fragment, n.d. re: business firm contributions to a Sunday activity. 1 1. holograph signed. (21/Box 2)

Bond for deed, from Rees, Winans & Co., to Henry Schneckloth, December 4, 1901. 1 1. ms. form. (8-F/Box 1)

Accounts and memoranda, 1902-1904. 1 v. ms. (66-B-10/Box 9)

Accounts and memoranda, 1905. 1 v. ms. (66-B-11/Box 9)

Accounts and memoranda, 1907-1910. 1 v. ms. (66-B-12/Box 9)

Accounts and memoranda, 1909. 1 v. ms. (66-B-13/Box 9)

Accounts and memoranda, 1916. 1 v. ms. (66-B-14/Box 9)

[Account of excursion to Alaska with the Synod of the Presbyterian Church, n.d.] 4 1. ms. (3-1/Box 1)

Biographical note re: Edward Marsden, n.d. 1 1. ms. (3-F/Box 1)

Confession of faith, with notes. 1 1. ms. (56-L/Box 6)

Diaries, 1857-1892. 12 items . May, 1857-April, 1858; March-December, 1858; January-July, 1859; July, 1859-August, 1862; August, 1862; January, 1864; March-June, 1864; June, 1864-November, 1866; December, 1866-January, 1869; November, 1870-1874; February-April, 1892; April-May, 1892; May-July, 1892. (66-A-1-12/Box 9)

Diary, April 12, 1861-August 5, 1868. 21 1. ms. copy. (20-F/Box 2)

Diary fragment, January 21-July 8, 1860. 1 1. ms.(3-Q/Box 1)

Campaign speech, -mostly directed at a Democratic orator, Tom Caton, Colville, ca. 1890. 7 p. ins. (38-B-1/Box 5)

Edward Marsden, a biography n.d. 5 p. ms. (3-L/Box 1)

Envelope with manuscript notes, n.d. 1 1. (13/Box 1)

First American Flour Mill; second-mill in the valley, n.d. 2 1. ms. (20-E/Box 2)

The Greek Church, n.d. 2 1. ms. (3-G/Box 1)

Historical notes, n.d. 15 1. ms. by Winans and Wolff. (21-G/Box 2)

History of a church, a graphic sketch of the history of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church by Hon. W. P. Winans. Clipping, December 29, 1886. 1 1. (21/Box 2)

The incident that caused John Hay to write "Banty Tim," n.d. 2 1. ms. (3-U/Box 1)

Lewis and Clark, an essay, Walla Walla, December 17, 1886, based on the Lewis and Clark journals and reminiscences of Hudsons Bay’s employees at Colville, ca. 1860. [8]p. ms. (3-E/Box 1)

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown, n.d. 4 1. ms. (20-D/Box 2)

A model community, Metlakahtla, Alaska, a description, n.d. 4 1. ms. (3-0/Box 1)

Notes on Edward Marsden and William Duncan, n.d. 5 1. ms. (3-P/Box 1)

Outline for sunday school lessons, n.d. 1 v. ms. (53/Box 6)

Reminiscences of trip from Pittsfield, Illinois, April 20, 1859, to Umati-la, Oregon, n.d. (3-N/Box 1)

Stevens County, Washington, early settlements. n.d. 60 1. ms. (20-A/Box 2)

"Stevens County, Washington: Its creation, addition, subtraction and division," by W. P. Winans, January, 1904. [64]1. typescript. Interleaved clippings and notes. 5 1. ms. index. Cover letter,

W. P. Winans to Grace G. Isaacs, March 28, 1904. (10-A/Box 1)

"Stevens County, Washington; Its creation, addition, subtraction and division," January, 1904. 51 p. typescript. Bound. (10-B/Box 1)

"Stevens County, Washington: its creation, addition, subtraction and division," by W. P. Winans, January, 1904. 53 p. typescript (carbon) Cover letter, March 28, 1904, to Miss Grace Gi Isaacs, with holograph note as to its correctness by WPW, January 28, 1915. Portrait of WPW, June 1914-on front cover. Letter, January 29, 1915, from P. M. Winans to W. 0. Vincent at back. Received from the William David Vincent Collection. (64/Box 8)

Presbyterian Church. Oregon Synod. Permanent Committee on Missions and Church Erection. Memorandum of the transactions authorized by the permanent committee, WPW Secretary-Treasurer, 1898-1904. 5 1. ms. of 1 v. (3-A/Box 1)

Hudson, P. Diploma in testimony of producing the best specimen of Chirography, presented to WPW, Pittsfield, Illinois, April 2, 1853. 1 1. ms. Note attached: A fare sample of my pennmanship after taking lessons of Mr. Hudson. (38-B/Box 5)

Stevens County. Auditor. Notification of election of WPK as School Superintendant, June 13, 1866. 1 1. holograph signed. (47-B/Box 6)

WPW and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 3 clippings, n.d. (21/Box 2)

City election, third ward, list of candidates, n.d. 1 1. printed. WPW candidate for mayor. (3-V-7/Box 1)

William Parkhurst Winans, biographical sketch from Lyman’s Old Walla Walla County, V.1, pp. 481-485. 3 p. typescript. (12-A/Box 1)

Freemasons. Olympic Lodge No. 1. Dues receipt, WPW, October 21, 1871. 1 1. ms. (56-W/Box 6)

Ancient Order of United Workmen. Final card of WPW, January 10, 1883. 1 1. ms. (56-Z/Box 6)

Membership card, WPW, inYMCA, Walla Walla for 1887. 1 1. ms. (56-P/Box 6)

Blalock, Y. C. Medical bill, W.P.W., April 1, 1887. 1 1. ms. (56-0/Box 6)

Blalock & Blalock. Prescription, October 22, 1886, Walla Walla, for Mrs. Winans. 1 1. ms. (56-M/Box 6)

Funeral of W. P. Winans held this morning. Clipping, Walla Walla Bulletin, April 25, 1917. 1 1. (49/Box 6)

Walla Walla. First Presbyterian Church Program, May 20, 1917, William P. Winans Memorial Service. 2 1. (3-H/Box 1)

William Parkhurst Winans, portrait, n.d. 1 copy negative 12.5 x 10 cm. 1 copy photoprint 18 x 13 cm. (65/Box 8)

William Parkhurst Winans, portrait, n.d. 1 photolithograph with facsimile signature 28 x 20 cm. (65/Box 8)

James McAuliff, Dan Welch, Harry YOung, Charles Canfield, n.d. 1 photoprint. (11-F/Box 1)

H. H. Spalding, portrait clipped from a book or magazine. (11-I/Box 1)

Old Colville, ca. 1891. 5 photoprints, 13 x 11 cm. (69/Box 10)

Colville Valley, n.d.? 1 photoprint. (11-P/Box 1)

Colville, n.d., taken from hillside? 1 photoprint. (11-0/Box 1)

Fort Colville of the Hudson Bay Company, n.d. 2 photoprints. (11-B/Box 1)

Northeast bastion at Hudson Bay Fort Colville, built 1827. 4 photoprints. (11-A/Box 1)

Pencil sketch of Fort Colville? n.d. (3-T/Box 1)

Douglas Falls on Mill Creek, Colville Valley, n.d. 1 photoprint. (11-M/Box 1)

Kettle Falls, September 30, 1903. 1 photoprint.. (11-H/Box 1)

Chewelah Old Landmark. The old dwelling built by Thomas Brown, 1865, being the first house built where the town of Chewalah was afterwards located, ca. 1911. 1 photoprint. (11-J/Box 1)

Chewelah, old landmark. The first barn built at Chewelah.1866, by Thomas Brown. ca. 1911. 1 photoprint. (ll-E/Box 1)

Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Kieling in front of their residence, Chewelah, Washington, February 16, 1911. 1 photoprint. (11-G/Box 1)

Portrait of Mrs. Fred Kieling, Chewelah, Washington? 1 photoprint. ca. 1911. (11-D/Box 1)

St. Paul’s Mission, Kettle Falls, built 1844, n.d. 1 photoprint.(11-N/Box 1)

Rees, Winans & Co. store, Walla Walla, September 18, 1883, decorated for the visit of Henry Villard. 1 photoprint 25 x 33 cm. (69/Box 10)

Rees, Winans & Co. store with crowd on sidewalk, n.d. 1 photoprint toned blue. (11-C/Box 1)

Colville pioneers picnic, July 4, 1904 or 1906. l.photoprint. (11-L/Box 1)

Bones Indian [seated Indian with pipe. n.d.] Mounted photograph. Mount has label: Maxwell, Walla Walla. Verso has label: Walla Walla County Fair, entry tag, from J. Harburt. (3-D/Box 1)

Leschi. Post card, number 2 in Ezra Meeker Historical post cards, series B, Indian Characters. (8-0-4/Box 1)

Lawyer. Picture postcard, number 12 in the Ezra Meeker Historical Postcards, Series B, Indian Characters. (8-0-3/Box 1)

The Grandmother. Picture postcard, no. 9 in Ezra Meeker Historical Postcards, Series B, Indian Characters. (8-0--2/Box 1)

Duke of York. Picture postcard, number 10 in Ezra Meeker Historical Postcards, Series B, Indian characters. (8-0-1/Box 1)

Wreathed portrait of an unidentified man, n.d. 1 photoprint. (ll-K/Box 1)

Photograph of a man holding a hose attached to a tank on his back, n.d. 1 photoprint. (56-X/Box 1)

Alley, T. J. Key to the holy land cabinet, n.d. 6 1. printed. (56-Z-2/Box 6)

Bliss, Sylvester. Analysis of geography. Boston, Jewett and Co., 1853. 88 p. illus. maps. Contains correspondence, school notes and other papers of Robert Gamel, ca. 1867-1875. (32/Box 4)

Clipping: "Confederates in the saddle" n.d. 1 1. (56-J/Box 6)

Clipping on women's tights movements., March 27, 1879. 1 item. (56-S/Box 6)

Clippings: arrival of Albert Pike in Walla Walla; poem: "God Bless Mother." n.d. 2 items. (56-A-B/Box 6)

Clippings, notes, brochures and other papers, many on religious subjects, 1886-1915. approx. 150 items. (36/Box 5)

Delaney, Matilda Sager. Eyewitness account of the Whitman Massacre dictated to P. M. Winans, told by Mrs. Delaney who was Matilda Sager, Fall of 1897. 6 1. ms. (55-A/Box 6)

Eells, Cushing. Journal, October 21, 1885. 9 1. ms. Re: services in Stevens County. Title: Copy of Cushing Eels’s journal. (20-B/Box 2)

Harper’s Weekly, v. 9, n. 424; February 11, 1865. (31/Box 4)

Interesting People, magazine clipping, n.d. (3-V-6/Box 1)

Kenny, Michael. Steptoe Expedition, n.d. 6 p. typescript, signed. Also Col. Steptoes’ Report, May 23, 1858. 3 p. typescript (carbon) (6/Box 1)

"Last blazes on the Oregon Trail," [an account of Ezra Meeker, reprinted from the New York Evening Post, May 18, 1907, by Ezra Meeker] 4 1. illus. (3-C/Box 1)

"Proposed Indian reservations in Idaho and Washington Territories." 1874. 11 p. (H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 102, 43rd Congress, 1st Session) ms. note of rebuttal attached, 1 1. (39-A/Box 5)

Scrapbook album of clippings concerning Columbus, Whitman, Walla Walla and Washington State politics, 1892-1900. 1 v. Includes many pamphlets and periodicals. (58/Box 7)

Scrapbook of clippings: poetry, prose, illustrations, jokes and riddles, pasted into an account book, ca. 1868'. 1 v. (54/Box 6)

Slater, John B. Wolff’s reminiscences. The Colville Examiner, March 24 1917. 1 1. clipping. (18/Box 2).

Spalding, Henry Harmon. Lectures, no. 1-9. Clippings, Walla Walla Statesman, 1866. 11 items. Also eye-witness account of the Whitman Massacre by J. B. A. Brouillet, and a letter by William McBean calling attention to errors in Spalding’s account of the massacre. (50/Box 6)

Specimens of modern and approved forms, used in transacting business: written by pupils at Deans Writing Academy, City Library, New York. Eng’d by P. Maverick. New York, [1808] 9 1. (38-B-6/Box 5)

"Washington (Territory) House of Representatives Rules and Orders of the House of Representatives of the Territory of Washington." First biennial session, 1867-.8. Olympia, Chas. Prosch, Public Printer, 1867. 32 p. (57/Box 6) Note: Removed for separate cataloging, 8/16/2004.

Washington (Territory) Legislative Assembly. Joint Committee on Ways and Means. Olympia, T. F. McElroy, Printer, 1864. 23 p. Washington Imprints: 81 (5-B/Box 1)

Weinstock, Henry. "Jesus the Jew," clipping from the Oakland Enquirer, August 11, 1899 and other dates. Clippings are pasted into a copy of: Miller, D Allen, comp. Directory of Walla Walla [County?], Walla Walla, Statesmen Book and Job Press, 1880. 142 p. (4/Box 1)

Winans, Ira, Rochester NY. The following poems ought to inspire and deeply impress everyone who reads them. The latter was President Lincoln’s favorite. n.d. 1 1. broadside. Envelope with pasted clipping, reports another as Lincoln’s favorite. (8-N/Box 1)

Wolff, Francis. Autobiographical statement, n.d. 15 p. ms. (20-C/Box 2)

Camp Spokane, showing the proposed military reservations surveyed in 1880-1881 under the direction of Lieut., T. W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, by W. T. Weber. 1 1. 40 x 40 cm. (Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 1, lst Sess. 47th Cong.) (19-B/Box 2)

U.S. Army. Department of the Columbia. Plan of Camp Spokane, W. T., August, 1881, from data furnished by Lieut. 0. F. Long. 1 1. 36 x 44.5 cm. (Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 1, lst Sess. 47th Cong.) (19-A/Box 2)

Indian Reservations of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. n.d. 1 map. 42 x 53 cm. (Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 1 lst Sess. 47th Cong.) (19-C/Box 2)

Map intending to show the location of the different tribes of Indians under the control of-the Farmer in Charge residing at Fort Colville, n.d. ms. map 21.5 x 27.5 cm. part col. (38-A-4/Box 5)

Map of eastern Washington and northern Idaho showing location of Colville Reservation., n.d. ms. map 39 x 48 cm. (38-A-5/Box 5)

Plan of Fort Ticonderoga, n.d. 2 1. ms. (9/Box 1)

Map of Egypt and the Egyptian Sudan showing the seat of war; accompanied with a history of Egypt, its government, etc. Chicago, Rand, McNally & Co., 1885. 2 col. maps on 1 fold. sheet 61 x 135 cm. (63/Box 8)

[Historical Records Survey, Washington.] Notes for survey forms: Chewelah Congregational Church, a chewelah piano, and letters and reports from the office of Indian Affairs. n.d. (3-V-5/Box 1)

US General Land Office at Walla Walla Homestead land patent, issued to David M. Jessee, September 10, 1872. 1 1. (3-V-9/Box 1)

To the voters of Walla Walla City, a petition opposing a prohibition act, n.d. 3 1. ms. approx. 120 signatures. (12-B/Box 1)

Walla Walla Street Railway Company Pass., Miss Sarah Winans, signed by J. M. Hill, n.d. 1 1. ms. (13-B/Box 1)

Grand show! Two ring circus, n.d. 1 1. printed. Earl Winans listed as Keeper of Wild Animals. (13-A/Box 1)

Obituaries: Jonans Wood Winans, W. Winans, sr., n.d. 2 clippings. (56-U/Box 6)

Business cards: Johnson & McCown, Oregon City; Geo. L. Benning; W. C. .Manning. 3 items. (56-F-H/Box 6)

Andrew McCalley, business card, n.d. 1 printed. (56-N/Box 6)

Business card, Will A. Egbert, n.d. 1 1. printed. (56-Q/Box 6)

Winans, Christine. Trappers and furs, an essay, n.d. 5 p. typescript. (3-R/Box 1)

Fur list, illustrated pages from a Gordon Fur catalog and a typescript of fur prices. [5] 1. (3-S/Box 1)

Winans Christine. Letter, ca. May, 1915, to "Dear Children" re: Open River Celebration trip from Lewiston, Idaho to Astoria, Oregon, on the Undine, commemorating the opening of The Dalles-Celilo Canal of the Columbia River. 17 p. ms. (3-K/Box 1)

Winans Christine. Letter, ca. May, 1815, re: Open River Celebration trip from Lewiston to Astoria on the Undine commemorating the opening of The Dalles-Celilo Canal on the Columbia River. Pp. 5-12 MS. (3-M/Box 1)

The Call of the Columbia, v. 1, n. 5, May 6, 1915. Log book of the flagship Undine on the voyage from Portland, Oregon, to Lewiston, Idaho, and Return, May 3-6, 1915, commemorating the opening of The Dalles-Celilo Canal of the Columbia River. 1 1. Winans a passenger. (3-J/Box 1)

[Avery, Mary Williamson] The W. Park Winans Collection, n.d. 11 p. typescript. (70/Box 10)

Avery, Mary Williamson. The W. Park Winans manuscripts. Reprinted from Pacific Northwest Quarterly, v. 47, n. 1, January, 1956, 15-20. 4 1. illus. (70/Box 10) [Not part of original accession]

Avery, Mary Williamson. W. P. Winans Collection, [a calendar, ca. 1956] 14 p. typescript. [Includes a folder-by-folder contents list] (70/Box 10) [Not part of original accession]