Jay,
You mentioned the Roe Letters in this thread. If you are speaking of Jonas H. Roe, he is my 5g-grandfather (plus or minus) and it is my family which holds about 60 of the 100+ letters surrounding the family in the late 1800s I know to exist. Are there additional letters not currently held at the Illinois State Historical Libray? If so, do you know who I might contact to get copies of the letters to complete the collection? I have compiled them for the family and wish to maintain the collection as it stands. There is only a single letter that I know of that was too poor in quality to reproduce in any readable fashion, otherwise they were translated and images were placed on a CD for family and a copy sent to the Historical Library for research.

Thanks,
Erik