Letter signed F.J. Whitehead, St. Louis, to James W. Tankersly. I expect to come to your country next fall or winter for the purpose of seeing my friends and friends of my parents. I will put St. Louis alone against Virginia for pretty girls. Our City is partially under water from a rise of thirty feet in the Mississippi which has depressed business. However, I believe citizens of St. Louis would do business if they had to travel around in canoes. We have considerable cholera now, about two hundred per week, something not uncommon for a city of ninety thousand inhabitants. Individuals mentioned: R. Scruggs and Elizabeth A. Conner., 1851 June 24, Box: 2, Folder: 2. Saint Louis History Collection, A1427. Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center.

Letter signed F.J. Whitehead, St. Louis, to James W. Tankersly. I expect to come to your country next fall or winter for the purpose of seeing my friends and friends of my parents. I will put St. Louis alone against Virginia for pretty girls. Our City is partially under water from a rise of thirty feet in the Mississippi which has depressed business. However, I believe citizens of St. Louis would do business if they had to travel around in canoes. We have considerable cholera now, about two hundred per week, something not uncommon for a city of ninety thousand inhabitants. Individuals mentioned: R. Scruggs and Elizabeth A. Conner., 1851 June 24, Box: 2, Folder: 2. Saint Louis History Collection, A1427. Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center. https://mohistory.mobiusconsortium.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/17096 Accessed September 19, 2024.