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Fonds consists of letters sent from family and friends in South Russia to Peter Priess in Manitoba in the late 1920s and early 1930s. and photographs. The letters are mostly concerned with the day-to-day activities of the writers, as well as events that might hold personal significance for them or for Peter; they mention everything from daily work and birthdays or funerals, to mass travel to Moscow or passports and the arrests of male family members by Russian authorities. Also included are a number of postcards that were sent to Peter in the 1930s, and a songbook belonging to Anna Janzen, Peter’s maternal aunt.

The letters are mostly concerned with the day-to-day activities of the writers, as well as events that might hold personal significance for them or for Peter; they mention everything from daily work and birthdays or funerals, to mass travel to Moscow for passports and the arrests of male family members by Russian authorities. Also included are a number of postcards that were sent to Peter in the 1930s, and a songbook belonging to Anna Janzen (1889-1977), Peter’s maternal aunt. The main letter writers include Brother Gerhard Priess (1898-1935), sister Katharina Priess (1903-1981) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk, sister Maria Glasner (1911-1987) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk, and cousin Käthe Dyck (1910-) who moved to Nowo-Sibirsk.