Twenty nine letters written from Toledo to his brother, David Hughes, in Canada. The letters combine family concerns with comments on the political, social, and economic scene in Toledo during the early and middle 1920's. Record of Nastel's daily activities and current financial accounts. Some items from contemporary newspapers. Written in a reasonably legible hand in old German script.
Collection consists primarily of extensive correspondence with colleagues and relatives.
Principal familial correspondents include Nordmeyer's wife, Friedel, his parents, Ernst and Mary, his sisters, and his brothers. Additional works represent other European countries as well as Toledo, Ohio ca. In addition to these drawings a large amount of correspondence in the form of V-Mail, newsclippings and other memorabilia dating from Pecsenye's service in Europe during World War is included in the collection. These materials chronicle in both words and pictures the events of the war from Pecsenye's perspective. Memoirs written in 1876 giving an account of his life to 1837, nine incoming letters dating from 1831 to 1836, and a militia officer's commission of 1834.