This collection contains 37 letters (110 pages) from 1897-1912 written by the Thomas family. The letters are exchanged between the following people:

A. Margaret Davies Thomas (Mother): 3 letters/4 pages total, 1898-1899. She writes to Elmer, letter to Margaret from Rhone or Moroni, envelope addressed to Margaret from Elmer.

B. David Palmer Thomas (Father): 4 letters/5 pages total, 1898-1912. He writes to Margaret and Elmer, Rhone(?). There is also a small piece of paper stating the birth and death of son Moroni Job Thomas.

C. Alfred Augustes Thomas: 10 letters, 1 fragment/ 28 pages total pages, 1989-1899. He writes of his activities as an LDS missionary, and talks of home and concern for his brother Elmer, who was in the Philippines as a soldier in the Spanish-American War.

D. Elmer Thomas: 6 letters/13 pages total/7 envelopes, 1898. Letters to parents and family written from his troop ship on the way to the Philippines (he was a bugler in Battery A, Utah Light Artillery, 3rd Brigade, U.S. Army), and then he writes from Manilla in the Philippines. There is also a letter to Elmer from his cousin John Thomas.

E. Rhone Thomas: 9 letters/14 papers total, 1905-1912. Letters to mother and family and sister Gladys. He writes of his job in the mines of Montana and Nevada.

F. Natilie (Tillie) Thomas: 3 letters/6 pages total, 1 fragment, 1898. Tillie writes to her brothers while living in Salt Lake City, Utah with her parents.