Letter signed A[lex] R. S[kinker], East Orange, New Jersey, to mother. I am greatly surprised at your account of Mr. Binnington’s conduct. I hope for the sake of the parish that Mr. B. will soon go elsewhere. Last Saturday I went down to Ellis Island and saw several hundred Russian Poles, Hungarians, Swedes, Italians, Germans, etc. . . . The system is so perfect and the men who handle it so skilled that it takes a remarkably short time to dispose of a shipload. . . . The camaraderie among the employees of the A.T. & T. Co. is a very pleasant feature. Randall Hayt, who is to marry Peggy Cabell, is an old classmate of mine., 1910 May 18

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7

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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.