A. E. Touzalin was a career railroad man, starting in the passenger department of the Des Moines Valley Railroad, then moving to the Burlington & Missouri River Road in Iowa, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The greater part of the time A. E. Touzalin was associated with the CB&Q was as land commissioner of the Burlington & Missouri in Nebraska. He was later general manager, and then made 1st vice-president of the CB&Q in 1881.The letters in this series cover only the years 1881 and 1882, when he was in the latter position. He left the CB&Q in 1883 due to ill health.