Missing Correspondence

This digital archive is comprised of the correspondence that has survived in just two Rochester repositories. Some letters may have been misfiled or are otherwise yet undiscovered, perhaps in other local repositories; some are lost to history. We can identify some of the missing letters from clues in the existing letters:

Letter Elizabeth Sibley wrote to Emily Sibley Watson, received by Mrs. Watson on 5/4/1891
Letter from Miss Pond that Emily Sibley Watson mentions in her letter dated 5/6/1891
Second letter from Elizabeth Sibley which Emily Sibley Watson describes receiving in her 5/8/1891 letter
Letters Emily Sibley Watson wrote to J.G. Averell & Miss Pond, described in her 5/17/1891 letter to her mother. The letter to J.G. Averell probably is the one that contained a photo of "the gardens of Madrid" that Elizabeth Sibley mentions that he has received in a letter dated 5/21/1891
Letter Emily Sibley Watson wrote to her brother Hiram Watson Sibley, mentioned in a letter dated 6/7/1891
Letter from Emily Sibley Watson in London dated 7/19/1891, to her mother, which Elizabeth Sibley mentions in a letter dated 7/23/1891
Letter from Emily Sibley Watson, enclosing a letter from Marie Atkinson, metnioned in a letter from her mother on 7/31/1891
Cable from the Watson's announcing their arrival in New York as well as a cable received from Marie Atkinson, which she describes as having been received in Salzburg, mentioned in a letter from Elizabeth Sibley dated 8/8/1891
Letter Elizabeth Sibley wrote to J. G. Averell from Heidelburg, mentioned in a letter to her daughter dated 8/19/1891
Letter from Emily Sibley Watson dated 9/4/1891, mentioned in a letter from her mother on 8/19/1891
Cable from Elizabeth Smith, mentioned in a letter from Elizabeth Sibley to Emily Sibley Watson, dated 8/19/1891
Letter from Emily Sibley Watson on board the Columbia, mentioned in a letter from her mother dated 8/19/1891
Letters and a telegraph received from Hobart Atkinson and his daughter Marie, described in a letter from Elizabeth Sibley dated 8/23/1891
Letter from Elizabeth Sibley to Mr. Tebbetts related to the altarpiece for St. John's Church in North Adams, mentioned in a letter to her daughter dated 8/23/1891
Letter from Emily Sibley Watson received by Elizabeth Sibley on her return to New York, mentioned in her letter of 9/6/1891
Letter Emily Sibley Watson wrote to Caroline Manning Watson from Genoa, roughly 12/11/1892
Letter James G. Averell wrote to his cousin Ruth Sibley, 12/25/1892
Various cables 12/24/1892, 12/27/1892
12/30/1892 letter from Emily Sibley Watson to her mother
1/1/1893 letter from James Sibley Watson to his mother
1/5/1893 letter from Maggie Sibley to Emily Sibley Watson
1/10/1893 letter from Emily Sibley Watson to Caroline Manning Watson
Letter from Marie to Emily, described 1/20/1893
Letters from “Mrs. Taylor, from Elisabeth Smith, from Hobart, Bessie & Belle ” to Emily Sibley Watson, described 1/28/1893
Letter from Caroline Manning Watson to Emily Sibley Watson, described 1/28/1893
Letter from Ruth Sibley to James G. Averell, received 1/29/1893
On her 2/9/1893 postcard, Emily mentions that both Jimmie & J.G. were sending letters “by the same post.” These letters are missing.
Cable from Hobart Ford Atkinson, indicating that he is planning to return home 2/15/1893
Letter from Emily Sibley Watson to Bess Watson Hollister 2/16/1893
Letter to Emily Sibley Watson from Mrs. Ward and a valentine from Miss Pond, described 3/1/1893
Letter from Algernon Sibley Crapsey to Emily Sibley Watson, described 3/24/1893