Letter signed T.K. Skinker, St. Louis, to wife, Brevard, North Carolina. Alex and Allen spent yesterday canoeing on the Meramec [River]. Alex says that on long stretches of the river you could see as many as 500 canoes passing a given point with half an hour. He tells of one boat house in which 700 boats are kept. The dredging done by the sand and gravel companies has greatly improved the river. Dave O’Neil was placing wire guards on his tennis court. It looks like an early beginning of building on the Lambert lot. The Lamberts have rented Davis bungalow and are to move in as soon as he takes possession of the Chancellor’s house., 1913 July 21

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 12

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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.