Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. Description of house hunting. Mentions the Wetzell house at 3741 Washington Ave. The old Barnes house at Garrison & Washington is the worst old shack I have seen in my rounds. Our last examinations have been of Dr. Prewitt’s No. 4615 Westminster, Mrs. Aglar’s no. 4613 Maryland, no. 4561 Washington Ave., and houses at 5268 Maple Ave. and 5241 Maple Ave. (encloses realtor’s printed descriptions of the latter two homes). Frank Eaton invited us to the Delmar Gardens to see the white horse make the high dive., 1901 Sept 15

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13

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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.