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This fonds consists of
-1) diaries (Volumes 4817a13; 4817b:2-8; 4818:1-5)
-2) correspondence (Volume 4817a:1-12,14-15)
-3) poetry collection (Volume 4817a:16-17)
-4) A Pilgrim People research files (Volume 4818:6-12)
-5) several artifacts (Artifact # 3, #4.)
The fonds includes the diary of Johannes D. Dyck (1826-1898) kept from 1871-1898, the diary of Renate Dyck (1885-1963) kept from 1909-1927, and the diary Johannes J. Dyck (1885-1948) kept from 1907-1908, 1922, 1937-1938.

The correspondence is primarily letters from the friends and family of Johannes and Renate Dyck from the United States, Russia, and Canada as well as correspondence with the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization. The collection does include one letter written by Helene Janzen in 1851 to Johannes D. Dyck, the gold miner in California.

The poetry is a collection of newspaper clippings and hand copied poems which were used to include in correspondence to give encouragement to family members left in the USSR who were living under very difficult circumstances.

This fonds also includes the files created while preparing the family history books published in 1987 and 1994 entitled, A Pilgrim People and, A Pilgrim People Volume II.