Archives West Finding Aid

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, subject files including labor groups and committees, a scrapbook, George Soule correspondence and a manuscript, and an autobiography by James Blaine Walker.

Isobel Soule correspondence includes professional, personal, and family letters. Personal correspondence is organized alphabetically while outgoing letters are organized by date (1914-1971). There is also a group of letters from soldiers in WWI: William Dolan, 57th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps; J. M. F. (Jack) Gorman, 1st Connecticut Infantry; A. Eugene Higgens, Company B, Water Tank Train.

Subject files are organized alphabetically and contain many labor groups such as Quarry Workers International Union of North America and United Committee to aid Vermont Quarry workers. Other groups include American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born and the International Committee for the Protection of the Brazilian People. Documents include correspondence, meeting notes, and publications.

Manuscripts by Soule include articles, book-length, and poetry drafts and final revisions.

George Soule correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters.

Included in the collection is a 312 page autobiographical manuscript by James Blaine Walker (1864-1943, most likely Soule's father), titled "When the West Was Wild." The manuscript describes Walker's experiences as a newspaperman in Helena, Montana in the 1880s as well as his later association with the Syracuse, New York Herald, the New York Daily News and the New York Evening Telegram. The manuscript also refers to Walkers service as secretary of the New York Public Service Commission, District 1.