Typescript letter signed T.K. Skinker, St. Louis, to wife. I am sorry to note Pinnie’s account of herself. Her condition must be nearly desperate, and I doubt very much if Mr. Seamon appreciates the fact. Charlie reports that Mrs. Selden is improving. (More on the Seldens.) We had Tom and Annie Skinker with us last night. I took them and Jane up to the Fair. We saw the Boer War and rode home in an automobile. Julian thinks that Tom is not doing much at school. . . . I believe him mistaken. I suppose you have read in the paper of Mrs. Breck. Jones [Mrs. Breckinridge Jones] awful death. I wrote Mary advising that she and Fred and Rosalie come now and see the World’s Fair. Mary wrote as if it was a sort of insanity to propose anybody should come to St. Louis in August., 1904 Aug 18

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3

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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.