Reproductions of papers of Alexander Lattie (1802-1849), including a journal he kept while stationed at Fort George (also known as Fort Astoria) in the Oregon Territory. Lattie was a Scot who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company.

Typescript copies of journals and correspondence of John Work, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company who explored the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s and 1830s. The materials were collected by Isaac Burpee in the 1940s for use in a publication. Also included are Burpee's research notes and microfilm containing copies of John Work's original journals of 1823-1835 and a transcription made in 1945.