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Morse-Keith family correspondence, 1858-1933

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Title Morse-Keith family correspondence, 1858-1933

Date 1858-1933

Language English

Description Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860s, establishing a wholesale clothing firm.

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription Grand Glaize
Friday 12th, 1856

Dear Elisa

I arrived home "[[?]]" next Monday after I left you. we have not had a mail Boat since. the river has been fozen over so people could "[[?]]" the "[[?]]" & National Post up yesterday. I shall send this letter by one of the Boats. W. Dyer has rented his house and stable for one year for three hundred and twenty five Dollars. So a man by the name of Sheltace the man that had three Negroes to let. So I am boarding with him. Andrew is boarding with W. Michales. I told him the "[[?]]" and agreed to take it out in board. he likes boarding there very well. W. Paterson was Eleven days "[[?]]" from "[[?]]". So you see how bad it was to travel. I expect letters from True "[[?]]" the mail Boat gets here if it ever does. Paterson has falling out with True. I did not get any by him but he says True is doing well in "[[?]]" but says he is a "[[?]]" rascale. I will go to "[[?]]" in a few days, and if I can get "[[?]]" "[[?]]" back I "[[?]]" take it there again to start an office in New Orleans. I think I can make some arrangements for to settle off my old debts

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Archival Collection Title Morse-Keith family papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Morse-Keith Box 1 Folder 16

BibID 998217828805867

Projects Tag Gilded Age (Adam Matthew Digital)

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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