Correspondence, primarily from the children of C.M. and Eliza Paine Rodgers. The Rodgers' oldest child and daughter, Romaine Rodgers, went to school in Davenport, Iowa, and started a farm there and in Tribune, Kansas. Other children also traveled and resettled, and the correspondence back and forth talks about farming conditions, rural life, births, illnesses, and deaths. A couple of cousins (children of C.M.'s brother Samuel) settled in New Mexico and California in the 1880s.