Cely Letters
The Cely Letters are a collection of family correspondence written in the 15th century, which describe the lives and business activities of a family of London wool merchants. Key members were Richard Cely and his wife Agnes and their sons Robert, Richard, and George. This collection is one of the few surviving letter collections from the 15th century, along with the Paston Letters and the Stonor Letters. While the "Paston Letters" cover a period spanning over 3/4 of a century, the "Cely Letters" cover a much shorter period of time between 1472 and 1488. The Cely letters were  preserved only because they were used as evidence in a lawsuit. The "Cely Letters" are primary sources of information about the English economy and English society at the end of the Wars of the Roses. Only one thing that was known about the wives from the letters is that they would take care of the house and land the husbands own since they would be away