HENRIETTA BROMWELL PAPERS

The Henrietta Bromwell Papers date from 1868 to 1938. The bulk of the material consists of Bromwell's notes from genealogical research that she conducted between 1905 and 1938. The information contained in the notes generally includes the person's surname and given name, birth and death dates, profession and other identifying information. She organized the notes according to the family surname and in alphabetical order. The bulk of the notes derive from her research on Bromwell and family surnames beginning with the letter "B." Bromwell wrote these notes on very small pieces of paper. The pieces comprise newspapers, invoices, receipts or blank paper. Bromwell included a few newspaper clippings with her notes. The clippings include obituaries, social news or brief mentions from The Denver Post or Rocky Mountain News.

Additional papers consist of correspondence she received from family and friends, a diary and invoices. Two letters dating from 1868 that Bromwell wrote to her father are included. The papers document the extensive genealogical research Bromwell conducted. In addition to several publications by Henrietta Bromwell, the Western History/Genealogy Department has the following material directly related to Henrietta and her father including:

The series consists of Henrietta Bromwell's genealogy research notes. The bulk of the series comprises scrawled notes on bits of paper, which resulted in her monumental work on the Colorado Portrait in the biographical index. The information contained in the notes usually includes the person's surname and given name, birth and death dates, profession along with any relevant information she discovered. Bromwell wrote these notes on very small pieces of paper. Most of the notes are quite fragile. Originally, the notes were tied together in large clusters with straight pins, hair clips, safety pins and ribbon. Due to this arrangement many of the notes could not be read and were torn. The clusters were dismantled. Plastic paper clips hold the notes together and preserve the original order. A few newspaper clippings are included.

The bulk of the series consists of correspondence Bromwell received from family members and friends. A diary of her trips throughout Colorado and the U.S. to promote her father's (H.P.H. Bromwell) book, Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry is included. The first several pages of the diary contain lists of the cities she visited. The diary is also available on microfilm. The remaining material includes correspondence from the Daughters of the American Revolution, two letters she sent to her father, invoices and receipts.

Microfilm (Mflm 108) contains only the diary: Trips Made by Author for Father's Masonic Book, February 1905-November 8, 1908