Letter signed T.K. Skinker, St. Louis, to wife, North Hatley, Quebec. I enclose a letter lately received from Mr. Frank Norris. I answered that I did not want the Library as a whole, but I might be able to come by and make a selection. I had a visit today from Mrs. Speer, Virginia McBlair’s cousin. A Richmond church is thinking of calling Dr. Winchester. Aleck and Douglas canoed on the Meramec [River] that day that Mrs. Wright was drowned. None of the published accounts mention it, but Aleck says that the boatmen say that both Wright and the other man were drunk. Attendance (at the fair) is increasing, not as it ought to, but still considerably & steadily., 1904 Aug 24

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4

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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.