Letter signed T.K. Skinker, St. Louis, to wife. Yesterday I called at Wm. Donaldson’‘ [William Donaldson’s] and asked him to take a walk with me through the World’s Fair grounds. He . . . charged that the World’s Fair had threatened and forced Washington University in granting a lease, and that they had cut 17,000 trees out of Forest Park. For the first charge he gave Hal Eliot as authority. I hope you did not fail to read in Sunday’s Republic Francis’ letter to the Parkview Realty Co., [1902] July 21

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14

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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.