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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: RH MS 1361

Contains 111 Results:

Letter to brother from C.P. Graham in Heyworth, March 17, 1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 52
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C.P. has been busy and has had a lawsuit to attend to, which closed two days ago in his favor; he works at house building in the summer and works on wagons in his shop over the winter

Dates: March 17, 1862

Letter to brother from C.P. Graham in Waynesville Hls, December 31, 1887

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 53
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C.P. went with his wife's relatives to Heyworth for a funeral, a niece of his wife's died; there has been considerable sickness in his family over the fall; business has stagnated due to the election; he is glad there is to be a change, the Republican Party turned a deaf ear to prohibitionists though there has not been an issue since the cry of freedom of slaves that has merited the suffrage of the people as the cry of freedom from the venom of alcohol

Dates: December 31, 1887

Letter to brother from C.P. Graham in Waynesville Hls, December 15, 1863

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 54
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Crops this year were a failure, times are hard

Dates: December 15, 1863

Letter to bro William from C.P. Graham in Heyworth, April 11, 1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 55
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The market is not very good

Dates: April 11, 1862

Letter to brother from C.P. Graham in Heyworth, January 21, 1866

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 56
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C.P's eyes are bad and he has been confined to his room for over a month

Dates: January 21, 1866

Letter to brother and sister, nephews and nieces from C.P. Graham in Townsend, Huron Co, December 3, 1871

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 57
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C.P. has so much noise in his head he fears some time he will be crazy or die suddenly; he talks about a new patent medicine he sees advertised called Joseph Walkers Vinegar Biters; this month if he lives will be his 68th birthday

Dates: December 3, 1871

Letter to brother and sister, nephews and nieces from C.P. Graham in Townsend Huron Co; Letter to brother and sister from A. Chappell [same page], February 24, 1871

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 58
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C.P. is thankful he is not entirely deaf or blind, he has to use spectacles; he does a lot of sewing, knitting, washing, and mending around the house; A. Chappell's health is worse than two years ago; in April she will be 73

Dates: February 24, 1871

Letter to brother [William] and sister [Betsy] from M.A.C, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 59
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M.A.C. has been quilting, sewing carpet rags, and picking strawberries, currents, gooseberries and apples to cut and dry; she wishes she could see William and Betsy

Letter to brother Almon in Youngsville, PA from D.M. Hunter in Melrose, WI, March 12, 1869

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 60
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D.M. hopes George will go to Minnesota; she has one brother that will go if not drafted or does not volunteer for the war

Dates: March 12, 1869

Letter to Mother from Diantha M. Hunter in Melrose, WI, April 20, 1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 61
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Diantha reports that George thinks he will buy a house as soon as he returns from the war; George is on the march for Alabama

Dates: April 20, 1862

Letter to Mother from Diantha in Melrose, WI, October 11, 1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 62
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Diantha consols Mother who is being bereaved of her children one after another; she longs to see the end of this war; George has been in a battle

Dates: October 11, 1862

Letter to Mother from Diantha in Melrose, WI, November 20, 1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 63
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They do not see many happy moments 'while this cursed rebellion lasts, most folks last fall thought the war would have been over by now'

Dates: November 20, 1862

Letter to Mother and Sister from Diantha Hunter in Irving, August 30, 1863

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 65
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Diantha hopes she and her husband will soon be restored to each other; she is getting tired teaching school; her letter includes a newspaper clipping of a poem called 'The Comfort of a Plain Wife'

Dates: August 30, 1863

Letter to Mother from Diantha M. Hunter in Melrose, WI, February 2, 1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 66
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George has been writing her every week, his General said they would be home by June but the men do not believe him; Melrose has a Soldier's Aid Society and they have a box of things ready for the Hospital

Dates: February 2, 1862

Letter to Brother from J.E. Palmeter in Pacific, WI, May 20, 1857

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 69
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Josiah has had the hardest winter and the latest and coldest spring he has ever seen

Dates: May 20, 1857

Letter to brother and sister from J.E. Palmeter in Gratiot, WI, June 1, 1868

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 71
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Josiah has made up his mind to go where Shubil is

Dates: June 1, 1868

Letter to friends from J.E. Palmeter in Caladona trempeleu Co, WI, February 12, 1871

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 73
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Josiah is at Shubil's desk; Pamelia insists Josiah could make more money east than he could here

Dates: February 12, 1871

Fragment of a letter from J.E. Palmeter

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 74
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Josiah is expecting some people to come; on the back is a list with the going rates of various crops

Letter to friends and brother from J.E. Palmeter in Gratiot, Lafayette Co, WI

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 75
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Josiah talks about various relatives' everyday goings on