Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. A third president of the United States has fallen by the hand of an assassin! Such occurrences are enough to make one feel that there is something radically wrong with our boasted civilization. Friends who have asked after Bella. House hunting; Fred Lehman’s library. I spent today at St. Charles preparing for my waterworks case, which comes up next Tuesday. I came back by the trolley line, which is built to the edge of the first high ground on the St. Louis Co. side. Susie has given up her trip at the last moment., 1901 Sept 6

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12

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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.