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- GLC#
- GLC06253.08-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 15, 1857
- Author/Creator
- Waldo, Otis H., fl. 1857
- Title
- to Franklin Butler Van Valkenburgh
- Place Written
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 24.4 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
A letter written to Franklin Butler Van Valkenburgh by Otis H. Waldo. In this letter Waldo entreats Van Valkenburgh to return and continue working for the firm stating the amounts Van Valkenburgh would be paid for his first and second year of employment. While Otis H. Waldo appears in this letter as O.H. Waldo, his first name was determined from letter GLC06253.10 of this collection. Van Valkenburgh's reply to this letter is GLC06253.23. Otis H. Waldo married Franklin's sister Gertrude, but it is unclear what year the marriage occured.
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