Handwritten message on card advertising A. R. Quigg (Elk City, Kansas), 1881-04-01

Item

Identifier: MS 014- series MS 014-2- Container MS 014-2-02- item 1141

Staff Only

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copies of Materials

Dates

Other: 1881-04-01

Extent

From the Collection: 10 Cubic Feet

Additional Description

General

Front: Office of A.R. Quigg, General Dealer in Shelf & Heavy Hardware, Barb Wire, Glass, Nails, Stoves, Tinware, & Implements, Wagons, Wagon Material. ETC. Elk City, Kansas Handwritten: 4 - 1 1881. Dear Bro, I write few lines this morning it was very cold last night but day people are plowing & sowing oats & what look very well it is a late spring but nothing like it is north in Iowa the snow is 6 ft deep in places and the R. R. stopped [illegible words] is going to her father in Wichita of this mo. we are all well at this time health is generally good lots of Emigration to this state this spring I shall look for you soon. Your Bro Bert

Back: Handwritten: C. B. Quigg Esq, Webster, Indiana

General Postmarked date from Elk City, Kansas