Box 2

Handwritten recipe for making cough medicine, including ingredients such as include opium and French brandy.

Letter from E. W. Botsford to his brother and sister, David and Melissa Robinson, August 14, 1861. 2 pages. Content concerns family financial matters in regard to estate of father.

Booklet documenting the act of organization of the descendants of Elizabeth and Henry Botsford, of Leicestershire, England and Milford, Connecticut, under the name of Band of Botsford. Contents states information concerning date and place of annual meeting, officers, membership, dues, and donation of family papers and photographs. Membership list on last page.

Newspaper clipping obituary of Mrs. Melissa A. Robinsonissued on August 30, 1900. Melissa Robinson was the mother of Mrs. D.F. Wyman, Mrs. W. M. Smith, and others.