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2017.404.2181 | Letter from Annie R. Spurling to her sister late 19th century |
| Letter from Annie R. Spurling, Cranberry Isles, Dec. 13? to "Dear Sister" ... she is glad to know she has one friend left down there; speaks of family matters, mother and father, and latter day saints. [Possibly late 19th century handwriting and ink]. | Description: Letter from Annie R. Spurling, Cranberry Isles, Dec. 13? to "Dear Sister" ... she is glad to know she has one friend left down there; speaks of family matters, mother and father, and latter day saints. [Possibly late 19th century handwriting and ink]. | |
1000.42.178 | Letter from Carrie Richardson to her father Enoch Stanley 1876 |
| Letter, from Carrie Richardson to her father (Enoch Stanley), on Saturday morning Nov. 18 [18]76. Transcribed. Subjects: price of Hake sounds at .75 cents a pound (hake fish swim-bladders used in isinglass - a transparent gelatin used as a clarifying agent.); various family and Islanders whereabouts including Robert Spurling, Preble, Holmes, Reverend Augustus Smith, George Gilley, Ed Bunker, Asa, Hayes, Tilden, and Ed Truworthy giving her lessons on Mary's Melodeon (a small organ or possibly accordion). She mentions her husband Meltiah Richardson (Mell) in New York and how she may not go on the next trip unless he takes a load of Coal on somewhere. | Description: Letter, from Carrie Richardson to her father (Enoch Stanley), on Saturday morning Nov. 18 [18]76. Transcribed. Subjects: price of Hake sounds at .75 cents a pound (hake fish swim-bladders used in isinglass - a transparent gelatin used as a clarifying agent.); various family and Islanders whereabouts including Robert Spurling, Preble, Holmes, Reverend Augustus Smith, George Gilley, Ed Bunker, Asa, Hayes, Tilden, and Ed Truworthy giving her lessons on Mary's Melodeon (a small organ or possibly accordion). She mentions her husband Meltiah Richardson (Mell) in New York and how she may not go on the next trip unless he takes a load of Coal on somewhere. [show more] |