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- GLC#
- GLC03523.10.201-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 March 1885
- Title
- to Joseph M. Maitland [incomplete]
- Place Written
- Holden, Missouri
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19.6 cm, Width: 12.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Letter addressed "Dear friend Joe." Reports the winter has been severe with much snow. Discusses duck and rabbit hunting. Comments businesses are failing and real estate values continue to fall. Mentions crop yields will be lower this year due to damage sustained in the January thaw. Letter continues on 2 April 1885, and is unsigned and incomplete. However, based on handwriting similarity, place of writing, and content, the author may be R. H. Silfer, Maitland's correspondent in GLC03523.10.199.
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