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Box 3

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Letter signed Julia Kennett, St. Louis, to daughter [Mrs. T.G. Kent]. Latty is not so well today and is in a bad humor to boot. They sent word to send the baby down to the General’s today and she won’t let him go as the Genl. cut up so about the christening. He asked Hetty what in the devil they were doing up here, that it was a hell of a christening not to ask anybody to it. She says if she has 40 children not one of the family shall ever be invited., 1878 June 28

 Item — Box: 3
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: 1878 June 28