This paper examines the role of family members – particularly wives – within the extensive correspondence network of international and comparative education scholars documented in the unique archive of Professor Torsten Husén (1916–2009), which comprises over 80,000 pages of letters from the 1950s to the 1990s. Using a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective, informed by Donna Haraway’s (1988) concepts of situated knowledges and subjugated standpoints, the paper reveals how these seemingly peripheral figures actively contributed to knowledge production rather than remaining passive bystanders. By combining large language models, close reading, and preliminary network analysis of metadata (senders, recipients, greetings, references), the study shows how mentions of family construct multi-scalar relational structures. Focusing on the often-backgrounded voices at the periphery, the paper challenges traditional academic genealogies and resituates domestic spaces as co-productive sites of intellectual life. These intimate references illuminate overlooked material-semiotic entanglements, showing how wives and family members functioned as connective nodes that shaped correspondence rhythms, emotional tones, logistical support and in the end the circulation of ideas. This approach not only enriches our understanding of large-scale correspondence archives but also aligns with feminist STS calls to amplify marginal and relational perspectives, highlighting the agency of those at the edges of scholarly networks.