Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. This afternoon I helped to lay away in Bellefontaine our good friend Leavitt. In spite of the public sentiment that he committed suicide, the funeral was well attended. There was an unusual preponderance of men, an evidence I suppose that the women are out of town. The plan of sending Evelyn Winchester to Leland Stanford has been abandoned. She will take a full college course at W.U. I enclose a song of the Skinker road. Jane Fordyce has gone to San Francisco to meet her spouse. Called on the Tennents. Positively, there has not been a warm night since you left. This is a great opportunity for you to speak up for St. Louis, and I expect you to do it., 1902 Aug 22

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1

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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.