Letter signed T.K. Skinker to wife. We have not yet gotten over our joy at the discovery of the Ap Shinkle wills. Bella is so enthused that she wants me to go straight to London. We have had a nuisance imported to the hill in the shape of a parrot, the loudest-screeching, most raucous beast I ever heard. He woke Mr. Brookings the first morning Mr. B. arrived and kept him awake from day-break. The beast belongs to the Wallaces., 1913 Aug 13

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 13

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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.