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- GLC#
- GLC03523.10.005-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 28 November 1853
- Author/Creator
- Kelly, James H., fl. 1853
- Title
- To Brother and Sister
- Place Written
- Pottsville, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 38.8 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Reports that he has been at his mother's and that his father has been dead since the spring. Provides details on various other family members and friends. Remarks, "Times has been brok here this Summer. The coal men are all looking up - Thare has been more accidents in this place this summer then I ever knew Burnt killed and Cripled in the Mines - and on the Railroad every week ther has been one or 2 run over and Mamed." Follows up with, "I have just learned of your Election Results and are Much pleased."
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