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Pearce, Christopher Gardner and Jane Ann, Christopher Gardner Pearce papers, Aug. 11-Sept. 29, 1846

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Open book Pearce, Christopher Gardner and Jane Ann, Christopher Gardner Pearce papers, Aug. 11-Sept. 29, 1846

Title Pearce, Christopher Gardner and Jane Ann, Christopher Gardner Pearce papers, Aug. 11-Sept. 29, 1846

Creator Pearce, Christopher Gardner, 1811-1882

Date Aug. 11-Sept. 29, 1846

Place Illinois--Nauvoo, Kentucky--Paducah, Mississippi River, Ohio--Cincinnati

Language English

Subjects Diseases, Floods, Husband and wife, Revivals

Description Correspondence between Christopher Gardner Pearce, who was a Mississippi steamboat captain, and his wife Jane Ann (Sackett), beginning during their courtship in 1839 and continuing until 1851, the year in which Jane Ann died. The letters discuss a variety of subjects, including Pearce's life on the river, Jane Ann’s domestic life in Cincinnati, business, religion, politics, and family news and gossip. Also included is Pearce’s obituary from 1882, and a 1943 newspaper clipping that reprints a large check that Pearce wrote to a grocer in 1865.

User-Contributed Transcription St. Louis Augt. 11th 1846My Dear Wife,I arrived here yesterday morning, have closed my business and shall leave to day for Paducah. --I shall send this by Mail from this place, thinking it will reach you sooner than by Steam Boat via the River route, I shall be pleased to receive a letter from you on my return to Paducah, as I feel very anxious about the health of yourself and our little ones during the hot weather, St. Louis at present is a very hot dusty place. I shall be glad to get out of it. The health of the City is generally not very good, about one in every five with whom I acquainted seem to be just recovering from a billious attack -- I called last evening on the Chappell + Copp families, found them in tolerable health, they asked many questions about our children, family +c. I think Mrs. Copp calls her daughter "Clara" a kind of

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Archival Collection Title Christopher Gardner Pearce papers

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Call Number midwest ms pearce Box 1 Folder 18

BibID 998292998805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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File Created 10/27/2016

Filename 998292998805867_mms_pearce_box_01_fl_018_001_01.tif

Unique Identifier NL1PZCI

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