With Treasury Department, 1866

This series contains the correspondence of multiple generations of the Carpenter and Hogarty families and related branches. Much of what is here are single letters of a scattered nature, but there are significant sets of correspondence, such as that between Leroy Carpenter and Martha Bennett before they were married, Delph Carpenter with father-in-law M. J. Hogarty, and Sarah Carr Hogarty with her mother Ann Tuttle Carr Shafer. The files are arranged alphabetically by person's last name; when a letter could be filed in two places, it was placed with the person closer in proximity of relation to Delph Carpenter. Each folder is either designated as being from, to, or with a correspondent, or is a subject file; the arrangement under each person's name follows that order. M. J. Hogarty's subject correspondence uses labels assigned by him. Sympathy cards and letters received by various family members upon Delph's passing are filed under "Michaela Hogarty Carpenter and family." The correspondence of women who wrote under their birth name and later their married name is divided accordingly. Printouts of scanned postcards (owned by the Carpenter family) are filed at the end of the series rather than by correspondent. Items within folders are arranged chronologically.