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- GLC#
- GLC02429.11-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 June 1871
- Author/Creator
- Hemans, Daniel Wright, fl. 1872-1881
- Title
- to Frances B. Shiras
- Place Written
- South Dakota
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Discusses money Shiras sent. Comments on the cultivation being done by Yanktons on the reservation and their reception of annuity money. Discusses his wife, including her conversion from Presbyterian to Episcopalian. Comments on their garden. Includes a short note from Nancy about her interest in Shiras's last letter.
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