Carolyn Dodge resided in Ellensburg, Washington, in the Badger Pocket area on a farm with her family and her letters describe her daily life as a farm wife and later as the wife of a potato broker in the Quincy Basin. Dodge also wrote letters to her cousin at her residences in Kittitas and Quincy, Washington, following her time in Ellensburg.
The Dodge family moved to the Ellensburg area in 1929 from Montana when Boynton Dodge, Carolyn’s husband, started a job as a fresh fruit inspector for the State of Washington. The family farmed in the Kittitas Valley from 1944 until 1955, moving briefly to Kittitas before moving on to Quincy. All three of their sons, John, William, and Robert graduated from Central Washington State College of Education/Central Washington State College.
The letters were donated by Carolyn Dodge’s son, Robert (Bob) Dodge, a 1959 graduate of Central Washington College of Education, now Central Washington University, in June 2021.
The collection is comprised of approximately 70 handwritten letters, the majority written by Carolyn Brown Dodge, and a few letters written by her mother Charlotta Wint Brown to their cousin/niece Carol Robinson who lived in Sidney, Montana. The letters were written from 1938-1968.
The collection is arranged chronologically at the file level.
Open to the public for educational research.
Dodge, Carolyn Brown. Guide to the Carolyn Brown Dodge Letters, 1938-1968. Central Washington University Archives and Special Collections. MS-023
Letters were donated by Carolyn Dodge's son, Robert Dodge.
Donated to CWU archives in 2021
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Open to the public for educational research.