Four letters addressed to Lewis Allen Alderson from his sister Polly Alderson Lewis. Alderson was studying at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He later moved to Atchison, Kansas, in 1858 and was a prominent Baptist minister. He died in Atchison in 1881. Notes from his brother-in-law, Charles Lewis, and his other sister, Patsey Alderson Feamster are included in the letters.