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- GLC#
- GLC03587.44-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 May 1868
- Author/Creator
- Merty, John W., fl. 1868
- Title
- to John Cripps
- Place Written
- Cotton Gin, Texas
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket : envelope Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Discusses his recent trip to Galveston and his visit with Captain Dick Taylor's family. Discusses his personal finances and his hopes to settle down. Requests that Cripps send him the mortgages he left behind to his address in New York. Hopes to visit Mexico in the fall. Imprint in upper left corner depicts the Capitol building beneath "Congress." Docketed envelope postmarked 22 May, Galveston, Texas. Includes three three-cent stamps depicting George Washington and one imprinted three-cent stamp. Merty writes Cripps in care of Mssrs. Philipps and Simon in Mexico City.
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