Aug., 1898

Primarily personal in nature, this correspondence consists largely during the early years, of letters exchanged between Bristow and his wife, Luella Farmer Adams during their courtship and marriage, and other correspondence with family members and friends. The volume of correspondence increases after 1896 when Bristow left Washington, D. C. to attend Stanford University.

Among the major correspondents are:

Mrs. Ada Gertrude Adams, Ardis Adams, Bristow Benjamin "Tote" Adams II, Edith Adams, Eleanor Adams, Everett Adams, Luella Farmer Adams, Wallace Adams, Walter "Wallie" Adams, Josephine Albrecht, Henry G. Alsberg, "Bebe", Margaret Bourke-White, H. D. Brandyce, Eric Branham, George C. Calvert, Sherwin Cody, Charles Collingwood, Clement V. Conole, Helen C. "Connie" Conrad, Elmer Farmer Creighton, Edmund E. Day, Wallace Duncan, John English, Mrs. Nettie Farmer, B. T. Galloway, A. W. Gibson, David Greenberg, Reed Harris, Charles Heffernan, Lester W. Herzog, E. B. Jansen, David Starr Jordan, Russell Lord, Deane W. Malott, Albert R. Mann, Constance Adams Means, Tom Means, Wallace Miller, Florence Morton, Everett Opie, Gifford Pinchot, "Queenie", Mrs. Alexis Romanoff, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., Elihu Root, Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., Jacob Gould Schurman, Everett Smith, Ada Adams Stone, Walter King Stone, Tom Storey, William Howard Taft, Charles S. Thompson, Robert E. Treman, Gertrude Adams Turner, Henry Brown "Tony" Turner IV, Peter Vischer, E. B. "Andy" White, Lee A. White