Letter signed T.K. Skinker, St. Louis, to wife. Address your letters to me at #94 Laclede Building rather than at 4380. They will get there many hours earlier. The train was speeding away to Mexico. I pulled out my bundle of papers and the brief was not there! The judge laid the case over one week. All received my oversight in the kindest spirit, and nobody even said d–n it. This is my biggest forget for a long time., 1901 June 23

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Skinker family correspondence, the bulk of which is between Thomas K. Skinker and his wife, Bertha Rives Skinker. The collection also contains several folders of tax receipts of Thomas Skinker dated 1839-1886. This finding aid was compiled by keying in the document descriptions on the folder covers. These document descriptions were presumably written by a Missouri Historical Society archivist soon after the collection was purchased in 1978.