Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series: Incoming correspondence including some early letters to Perkins as general superintendent of B&MRR, Iowa, but most to him as vice-president of the B&MRR, Nebraska. Letters concern all aspects of operations, finances, relations with other roads, personnel issues, and expansion. Of note are letters from the Nebraska Relief Society, reporting on conditions in various Nebraska counties hit by the 1874 grasshopper plague, and letters pertaining to the development of Russian colonies, also...