Correspondence to wife, 1880

Correspondence from Independence, Kansas; Eureka Springs, Arkansas; Joplin, Missouri; Girard, Illinois; and other locations. Mentions Camp Bliss and Wilson's Creek, camping, rocky hills, hunting, illness, descriptions of people and traveling overland. According to an obituary of Maria Richardson Phillips, Elliot Richardson was a clerk with J. O. Burton in the old Grange store (in Girard, Illinois?).