I'm a newbie at genealogy research. BUT.... I doubt that finds like this often happen for most folks looking into their family's history. And now it has happened a second time! The personal papers belonging to the aforementioned Joseph Smith Harris are held at Yale University (Yale??? Well, that's too bad!)
Here are a couple of lines from the collection's description and I think you will agree that there might be terrific information for Harris descendents in these papers:
The correspondence is arranged chronologically and consists primarily of letters by Harris to his family... Harris's letters for 1848-53, written to his mother and siblings, mention visits to relatives and journeys to and from school.
This collection is open to the public, so I guess there'll be a trip to New Haven in the future.
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