Letters to and from William H. Whitten (a brick mason) and Emily Isabel Pritham Whitten (a mill worker), originally from southern Maine and later residents of Jamaica Plain (Boston), Massachusetts. The letters include courtship letters, family exchanges, and reflections on working-class life, labor, and community mobility in New England. The writers describe William’s brickwork on military fortifications at Clarke’s Point, Emily’s mill work, and the family’s gradual establishment in Boston, including operating a boarding house and participation in the Dorchester Street Methodist Episcopal Church.