Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. I spent an hour or two at Ellenwood. The sewer men, having finished all the principal sewers, are now busy building man-holes & making the connections to the several lots. I had a call today from a landscape gardener, named Hehl, who brought a very strong letter of recommendation from Ben Gratz. Jack Nisbet turned up here last week, and has dined with us twice. He intends to come back to St. Louis to stay. I attended the funeral of young Edwin Freegard—drowned in the Meramec [River], trying to learn to swim, with his grandfather & brother., 1910 Aug 31

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8

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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.