Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. Attributes of the Robertson house. As things look now, we are to live permanently in the city; and we are also to live on a much smaller scale than we have been accustomed to. If you can make it do at all, we had better take the Robertson house, or some such one, and settle down before the inevitable ante-World’s Fair advance in rents. Inquiring about Fordyce house., 1901 Aug 18

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9

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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.