Box 2
Contains 146 Results:
Letter signed H.S.P. [Henry S. Spaulding], Surveyor General’s Office, St. Louis, to Friend. Regarding your coming to Monticello for you education. The last examination at the Seminary will be the 3rd of July. I expect to attend, after which I will procure the last catalogue and send it on to you., 1850 June 20
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed G.F. Filley, St. Louis, to Brother [J.H. Filley], Bloomfield, Conn. Prices and scarcity of oil. Stoves. Jenny Lind is expected tonight or tomorrow morning. Those who have heard her sing in New Orleans do not speak so highly of her singing. Businesses mentioned: Myers & Co. Places mentioned: Albany, Rochester, the Lakes, and Upper [Mississippi] River., 1851 Mar 16
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed F.J. Whitehead, St. Louis, to James W. Tankersly. I expect to come to your country next fall or winter for the purpose of seeing my friends and friends of my parents. I will put St. Louis alone against Virginia for pretty girls. Our City is partially under water from a rise of thirty feet in the Mississippi which has depressed business. However, I believe citizens of St. Louis would do business if they had to travel around in canoes. We have considerable cholera now, about two hundred per week, something not uncommon for a city of ninety thousand inhabitants. Individuals mentioned: R. Scruggs and Elizabeth A. Conner., 1851 June 24
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed J.W. Moss, St. Louis County, Bellemonte [originally Bellefontaine], to John Leach & Co., St. Louis. Mr. George White, who is our magistrate, on account of some indisposition, cannot go to St. Louis this week and is required to pay ten dollars on plank road stock for central railroad to James Lucas, secretary to the directors. Please call on Mr. James T. Swearingen and direct him to pay you ten dollars on my account which you will be so good as to pay Mr. Lucas and take the usual voucher in the name of George White for his plank road quota for stock and hold the same for him until called for., 1851 July 13
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter of [?], St. Louis, to Anna. Grieving over your leaving here, mention of numerous persons at school, some of the activities there, a new German teacher. Individuals mentioned: Madame Crowell, Josephine C. Merriam, Miss Wilder, Eva Perkins, Miss Field, Lizzie Hall, George Hume, Spaulding family, Anna Marsh, Johnny Massey, Herbert Primm, Eva Perkins, Mr. Bray, Annie Goodfellow, Molly Webster, and Madame [Laura] Bouvier., 1853 May 4
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Act to extend the limits of the city of St. Louis, and other purposes., ca. 1854
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Notes on St. Louis. Individuals mentioned: Nichols. Places mentioned: [First] Presbyterian Church, Lucas Place, Crawford’s Theater, Union Methodist Church, Court House, Second Presbyterian Church, Broadway, Walnut, Missouri Park, Exposition Building, High School [15th & Olive], and Christ Church Cathedral., 1854
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed George Emery, St. Louis, to Mother. Regarding Mormons. They are a curious set of People, their belief is that the higher a Minister is the more wives he is entitled to. The head of that Church has sixty wives and God knows how many children. Regarding spiritualism. I went to a meeting [where we] all sat around a table, placing our hand flat on the top. A short time after we was seated, the Table raised itself three times, by which token we was informed that there was a Spirit in the room, who wished to communicate with someone in the room. The Spirit was my Father. He said he was very happy, that he was in the fifth Circle, that is a most happy circle. He knew of the Death of Aunt Martha, had seen her, she was happy and in the fourth Circle, that is good for a woman. Individuals mentioned: Wesley, Anne Young, Hawtry the Tailor[?], and Chapman., 1854 Feb 26
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Anson F. Ashley, St. Louis, to Father. Regarding possibility of purchasing farm land in northern Missouri or southern Iowa. You gave me the credit of being a know nothing but I did not claim that Honor but if you had drove a milk wagon in St. Louis as long as I have you would hate the Irish about as bad as you now do Slavery especially when the City Officers Mayor down were about all of that class. Tomorrow is the day to elect City Officers and the excitement is very strong. It has been the boast of the Catholics that a Papal Flag should float over the Polls, if that is attempted the scenes of last August will be no comparison to those we shall have tomorrow., 1855 Apr 1
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed [Marcia Smith], Chicago, to Sister. Description of a St. Louis wedding of Julia Hull, its costumes and entertainment., 1855 Apr 7
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.