Letter signed T.K. Skinker, Washington, to wife, St. Louis. Yesterday I got a seat up front at the meeting of the association, where I was face to face with President Wilson and Ex-president Taft. It was fine to see the perfect good will between the President and the Ex-president. Many said that could not have been possible if the other ex-president had been present. Visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Houston, Tom Keith and Mr. Moore. Saw Eppa Hunton, Leigh and Mrs. Robinson. At Mount Vernon the address of welcome was to have been delivered by Jim Keith, but he is very ill at Woodburn. Hunton thinks it doubtful he will recover. Jennie Fitsburgh Turner is living here, her husband 94 & nearly gone., 1914 Oct 21

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 14

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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.