Naomi Painter Curl (1817-1894) was an Orthodox Friend of Pickerelltown, Logan County, Ohio. These fifty letters from friends and relatives concern personal and Quakers affairs. Included are several letters from David Hunt, Naomi's uncle and superintendent of Friends Boarding School in Richmond, Ind., and his daughter Mary D. Hunt, later Andrews. Other correspondents include Lemuel Baldwin, Sarah Cox, A.L. Curl, Charles H. Curl, Mary L. Curl. Isaac M. Gidley, Lorana Gidley, Rebecca P. Gidley, Phineas Hunt, Sarah Marmon, Amy Smith, Silas P.L. Strong, Elizabeth Ann Watkins, and M.H. Watkins. Also included is a letter from John Henley of Richmond, Ind. to Mary (Newby) Henley of Carthage, Ind., 3-16-1880, concerning family history and correspondence relating to the purchase of the collection from Timothy H. Bakken of Clarendon Hills, Illinois in 1980.