Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed Frost, Camp on the Nueces, to wife. Had another attack of chills and fever but fortunately supplied myself with medicine…the water on the Nueces, which is not a running stream, was very bad. Weather and camp here are delightful. I suppose the presidential agony is over and either Scott or Pierce is elected President., 1852 Nov 8
Item — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection comprises papers of the Kennett and Frost families, including notes and receipts of the Kennett, White and Company, circa 1840; letters of D.M. Frost to his wife from Texas in 1852 regarding Indian wars and letters dated 1856 regarding the Sioux War; diary of Edwin Harrison, 1858, which concerns the social life of St. Louis; and Civil War letters of Ferdinand Kennett, Jr. (Confederate) to his parents, 1864. (The Kennett family left Selma Hall and moved to St. Louis during...
Dates:
1852 Nov 8