Conlyn, Helen P. (Helen Pearson Chapman), 1876-1951

This Collection contains roughly 55 letters. It includes letters written by or to Helen Mary Chapman, Helen Pearson Chapman, Arthur Leigh Southerland, and Robert Mitchell Weir along with other family and business letters.

This folder contains 5 letters written by Arthur L. Southerland to Helen P. Chapman, cousin of his future wife, Helen Mary Chapman. The letters were written to Helen while she either lived or worked at the Washington Home for Incurables in Georgetown, and appear to indicate a friendship or courtship between the two.

Family papers, letters, wills, and deeds of the Chapman Family of Maryland and Virginia.

This folder contain letters written to and from various members of the Chapman family including John W. Mitchell and John Grant Chapman, former Whig member of the Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland Senate.

This folder contains 8 letters from various Chapman or Southerland family members to others in the family. Authors include Webb Southerland, brother of Arthur L. Southerland, Leigh M. Southerland, father of Arthur, Cecelia W. Chapman and Leola E. Chapman, both sisters of Helen Pearson Chapman (all daughters of Maryland congressman Andrew Grant Chapman), Nannie Thomas, a cousin of Arthur, and Thomas Chapman Southerland, younger son of Arthur and Helen May Chapman Southerland.

This folder contains one notebook that has hand-written genealogy notes on the Chapman family. The notes are attributed to John Seabury Chapman, however, he died in 1880 and many of the notes speak of the 1890s. Later in the notebook, someone has written excerpts from "Potomac River Landings" by Paul Wilstach, written February, 1929.

This folder contains several wills from members of the Chapman family, including the handwritten will of Susan Pearson Alexander Chapman.