Vernacular Architecture Research Guide : Primary Sources: Letters/Diaries

Some full-text collections include:

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project (Antiquity-to date)
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (1500-1900)
Everyday Life and Women in America (c. 1800-1920s)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1700-1800)
Evans (Early American Imprints) Series I (1639-1800)
Historical Primary Sources, Texts from UW-Madison Collections (1851-1911)
In the First Person
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (1840-)
North American Women's Diaries and Letters (Colonial Times to 1950)

To locate reprinted source materials, try searching the UW-Madison Library Catalog for these Library of Congress subject heading subdivisions:

correspondence
diaries
personal narratives
description and travel
letters
autobiography and/or autobiographies
notebooks
sketches and/or sketchbooks

Example: "vernacular architecture" AND "description and travel"