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The Nellie Bishop diaries contain descriptions of day-to-day events and details of her spending for each month. The 1874 diary, presumably written by Richard Thomas Bishop, discusses work life in Redhill, Surrey, England.

Scope and Contents The collection includes a folder on each of the people interviewed that generally contains a copy of the initial letter of inquiry sent by the Missouri Historical Society, subsequent correspondence between the Society and the interviewee, notes and transcriptions from the interviews, and signed agreement forms donating the tapes and their contents to the Society. In addition, the collection includes a few folders of general information on oral history methods and information on the LPE...

Scope and Contents 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...