This collection includes letters written to immigrant Max Hinrichs by members of his family in Germany-- particularly his mother, Georgine Hinrichs, and sister, Alma Hinrichs Röhrs. Max Hinrichs was born in 1869 in Brake, Lower Saxony; after visiting relatives in Illinois as a teenager, he decided he eventually wanted to settle in the United States permanently. In 1889, he returned to the United States and used money from an inheritance to purchase a farm near the town of Pullman, in Washington State. The letters in this collection were sent to Max Hinrichs between 1913 and 1920 from Hamburg and Oldenburg; most of the later letters discuss the aftermath of the First World War in Germany.