This subseries consists of the following;
1) Correspondence between Abraham A. Friesen, member of the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization, and Henry J. Willms. Some are handwritten and some are typed.
2) A table of contents of the letters and a brief description of each letter was produced by Helena, daughter of Abraham.A. Friesen

File consists of the following item:
"Von Gott getragen: Schicksalsjahre einer mutigen Frau" diary of Agatha Matthies 1893-1970. Box 238

The file contains the following items:
1.1) B.B. Janz Travel documents for the Canadian Pacific Railway Lines and receipts for travel taken contained in a small wallet.
B.B. Janz Identity Card issued by the Verband der Buerger Hollaendischer Herkunft in der Ukraine, issued June 22, 1924.
1.2) Jacob P. Becker Poem "Aussang und Fortgang der Mennoniten Bruedergemeinde-, 5 pages,1 file (Box 241)
1.3) Sermons and Ecclesiastical Affairs - 1 file (Box 241)
1.4) John P. Isaac correspondence with B.B. Janz regarding the Harbin immigrants of 1926 - 1 file (Box 241)
1.5) Letters to B.B. Janz, Peter Baerg - 1 file (Box 241)
1.6) Letters to B.B. Janz from daughter Helen Janz Thiessen - 1963-1964 - 1 file (Box 241)
1.7) The Land Question, 1923. Soviet of the People's Commissars of the Ukranian Socialist Republic correspondence with B.B. Janz , P.F. Froese, C.F. Klassen and others. Translated Russian Language Materials from the A.A. Friesen Collection, North Newton, Kansas. Handwritten notes by John B. Toews are included. 1 file (Box 241)
1.8) Russian Mennonite Documents, 1922-1924. Brief translations from Russian language into English. War Reparations, Emigration Movement, B.B. Janz Correspondence. - 1 file (Box 241)
1.9) Mennonite Emigration, 1921-1922, Russian Rules and Regulations. Minutes of the All-Russian Central Committee, 1921. Correspondence of B.B. Janz - 1 file (Box 241)
1.10) Mennonite Emigration, 1923-1925. Russian regulations imposed on Mennonites in the Russian language...abbreviated translations into English. Extensive correspondence with B.B. Janz - 1 file (Box 241)
1.11) Reports and Newspaper articles; 1921-1925. Hollenders by F. Mossenko with translation. Articles from "Communist" Newspaper, 1924; "Die Arbeit" 1924. - 1 file (Box 241)

This subseries consists of letters from David Goertz to his family.
1) Photocopied letters are faint and hard to read. They are in the Gothic script. 1863 - (2 files) Box 232

This file consists of correspondence transposed to typed manuscript:
1) Correspondence of David Goerz and his father Heinrich Goerz, Agnetha Goerz, Johann Cornies, 15 cm pages, various pagination.
2) Handwritten notes by John B, Toews, 20 pages in English. Box 232

This file consists of the following:
Correspondence with B.B. Janz on the subject of emigration and famine relief. Letters are from C. H. Warkentin, Philip Cornies, Benjamin Unruh. American Mennonite Relief and Studienkommission der Mennonite Sued Russlands

This file contains the following:
1) Letters and documents, February 1921-December 1921.
Correspondence to and from B.B. Janz with the following: Wilhelm Dyck, David Janz, Johannes Merk, B. Franz , H.H. Schroeder, Alvin Miller, Benjamin Unruh regarding the famine in Ukraine and assistance from America to the Mennonites (and others) to emigrate to the West.

The subseries consists of the following:
1) Letters of Heinrich J. Thiessen of Michailowka, Siberia writing to his siblings in Mountain Lake, U.S.A. He describes village life as he observed it.
2) John B Toews translated portions of some of the letters which were sent to him by Katherine Hooge.
3) Thiessen, Franz und Grete, written to Familie Isaak in 1926 in Rosthern Sask., 1 page

The file contains the following items:
1) Correspondence between Heinz von Homeyer and G. G. Dueck, October 13, 1963 to August13, 1968.
2) Letter from G.G. Dueck to John B. Toews, Aug. 31, 1968 , originating from Springstein, Manitoba. Envelope included.
3) Funeral announcement of Heinz von Homeyer, 1896-1996. - (1 file) Box 255

This sub series consists of an extensive correspondence between the father Jacob W. Toews in Ohrloff, S. Russia and his daughters Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews and Liese Toews and other family members with his sons Gerhard and William Toews in Leamington, Canada.
The letters date from 1927 to 1938. The subject under discussion is mainly emigration, collectivization, starvation, the Five Year Plan, taxation, survival, abductions, arrests, funerals and church life in very difficult times. Part of the family were able to emigrate to Canada but some remained in the Soviet Union. 10 files.

These 10 files consist of letters written by Jacob W. Toews in Ohrloff to his son Gerhard J. Toews in Canada, and sisters Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews, and brothers Kornelius Toews and Peter J. Toews and other relatives.
They are arranges in date order from 1927 to 1941

This file contains
1) Letters from Jacob W. Toews to Gerhard J Toews , Peter Toews, Susanna Toews, Mariechen Toews, Agnes Toews, Peter Hiebert, Anna Hiebert.
2) Translation of an unsigned 2-page essay "Collectivization and an Ohrloff, Molotschna Family Letter from 1927 to 1934".
Translator John B Toews. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) Letters from father Jacob W. Toews
2) Letters from siblings Susanna , Mariechen, Elizabeth, Agnes and brother Peter J. Toews describing the state owned agricultural farms, collectivization, the second great famine, deportation, high taxes - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
Letters to Gerhard J Toews from his father Jacob and siblings , Elisabeth, Agnes, Peter and 2 unsigned letters.
Some of the letters are abbreviated, transcribed and translated by John B. Toews. - (1 file) Box 232