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- GLC#
- GLC03523.10.200-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 December 1884
- Author/Creator
- Coleman, Daniel, fl. 1884-1890
- Title
- to Joseph M. Maitland
- Place Written
- Cropsey, Illinois
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 12.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Letter is addressed "Dear Cousin." Says he has bought an additional twenty acres of land for pasture. Plans to plant thirty-eight acres of corn. Comments "I think all over the land there is deadness in the church owing to the bitter feeling between the Political parties in the Election this fall..." Discusses John St. John and the Prohibition party. Claims, "The Prohibitionist is here to stay..." Mentions he would like to visit. Declares "...a republican would be about as safe in the south as a St. John's man in Urbana..." Letter has several holes.
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