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- One letter from Wilcox, Luff & Fuller of Detroit to Devol, Durian & Co. of Bristol, dated July 7, 1857. The letter is handwritten in dark brown ink on white paper and shows the company letterhead in the upper left corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1857-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- A letter from Ralph Emery, a clerk working for the Detroit Stove Works, to his father, Robert T. Emery, in Belfast, Maine, dated November 13, 1886. The letter is written on Detroit Stove Works letterhead, which features a lithograph, credited to the Calvert Lithograph Company, depicting the Detroit Stove Works offices in Detroit and Chicago as well as the company's foundry in Hamtramck, Michigan. The letter reads: My dear Father, Was glad to receive your last letter - I should have answered it before but for the past week have not been well, took cold + generally feel unwell but am now somewhat better + hope to be all right again in a few days. We are having some truly cold weather + have had two or three snow squalls, but none as yet to amount to anything. Business is very good but not what it should be at this time of the year. How is the newspaper succeeding, how large a subscription list have you. I like it very much + hope it will be a great success. What is there going on this winter for excitement in Belfast. Will the XII Club have a Ball - How is Ed Frost doing. Is Charlie Burgess able to be out. Write whenever you get time, will do the same. Hoping this will find you all well + with kindest regards to all. Remain your affec. Son, Ralph Emery Over Have just had a letter from Cullen Libley, who expects to be in Detroit over Sunday on his way to Chicago - he will probably arrive sometime tonight, shall be glad to see him.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handwritten letter from writer Ann S. Stephens to Charles Christopher Trowbridge in response to his conference of honorary membership in the Michigan Historical Society upon her. The letter is folded with one half marked to show the recipient and return address when folded. The letter reads: New York Feb. 15 /41 To C.C. Trowbridge Esqr. Dear Sir, Permit me to request that you will convey my thanks to the President and members of the Michigan Historical Society, for the honor they have conferred in making me an honorary member of their institution. I have never had the pleasure of visiting your state but feel much interest in the success of your society and shall do anything in my power to aid it, with my whole heart. I did not receive the notice of my election until last January, and at that time was confined by illness to my room. [?] first use which I make of returning health is this [?] to repay my sense of the compliment paid me by the Michigan Historical Society and to wish it all [?] success. Very Respectfully Ann S. Stephens
- Date Issued:
- 1841-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Half-folded handwritten letter sent by Anna Wilson to her brother concerning dampness in their home, a troublesome child, and recent deaths and marriages. The letter reads: St. Nicholas Hotel [?] 12 ch 11ch 1873 My dear brother Thy letter mailed yesterday ([?]) is just received, & I am glad to hear from you all, as well as about the Ceecieners[?] mother, that the [?] was safe, & the house & [?]. I have felt concerned about the dampness inside house & among the things, [?] how it creeps in in ground floors. I wrote last evening & requested Benja[?] to right up the sewing machine & put sticks under the boxes & trunks. If they could all be put up stairs, I would be glad. That is the trunks, boxes & beds. Suppose one box is too big to go up, perhaps, both of the large ones, if they could be raised up a few inches from the floor it would make a good deal of difference. I have no idea of going into any such minutia about the insurance. Perhaps it will be as well to leave it awhile. I have talked a little with insurance men here, & will [?]. [?] have been pretty comfortable to day. We undertook to have a [?] with [?] Underhill & M. [?] set up his authority in good [?] M.L. [?] turned down, did not even threaten to throw things at M.U. as he does sometimes. It is just what he needs, some one to exercise authority over him for he has become like a foolish child. We rode rough shode [?] when he was small, now he things he can do so with double clogs. M.U. was [?] afraid of him for a while, but now he is getting the upper hand. He is a faithful nurse & care taker. He gets almost discouraged sometimes, & I do remember[?], he said yesterday he believed if ever a man was pressured with a [?] Moses Sutton was at times. It does really seem so. Of course it is his own evil speech, uncontrolled by reason, &, as thee says, I do [?] think he is responsible for what he says & does in these moods. But it is sorrowful to see them. Lo[?] Joseph Gibbons has "entered into rest," or [?]. I thought when saw him last summer at sister Sarah's that his race seemed nearly run. My thoughts have been much in Detroit today with the grieved Episcopalians while attending the funeral of their beloved Bishop Armitage. I was shocked to see the notice of his death in the paper [?] 2[?] day morning, he died here in this city, when he had come to have a surgical operation performed. You will probably see an account of it in the Detroit papers. He built up St. John's Church in Detroit, from the beginning to a large & flourishing congregation. The last time I attended church before I left, was to hear him, as since he had been Bishop of Wisconsin, he was rarely there. And now Professor Agassiz is lying very low! And in eloquent Sybil Jones too passed away in the [?] of this month. Is the monthly meeting here in the 3[?], a friend gave a very touching account of a call made in her a few days before, of her beautiful expressions of [?] as she drew near "the River!" I shall think of Edward with you next 1[?] day, as a postal received from Sarah today informed. She also reported Sister Abbey's safe arrival there yesterday morning. Abby[?] will go West this minute, so she said. She has so much to look after, his niece to be married soon, Rebecca [?] whose father & mother both died earlier this year. I seems town & [?] have a royal example for furthering their marriage, as I see that of the Duke of Edinburgh & the Russian Princess s to be [?] late February. I hope they will all have a good time. As for Charlie's situation, I am inclined to think he would make [?] as well with [?] as [?]. Given[?] the farmer would be the rightest[?], as [?] L.L. Menilt said the [?] did the [?] farming. I am deeply obliged to thee for thy care of my business , [?] looking after my things. A fire will be a good thing, only don't burn the shanty down. It seems nice to be so social. Much love to all from Anne. I never can think to say anything about Birdie, wish I had the little fellow here, but [?] better off where he is if Anna does not get tired of caring for her, [?] he's gone to school, who cares for item? Minnie? Anne
- Date Issued:
- 1873-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Transmittal letter from C. M. Davison, Cashier, of the Second National Bank of Detroit to the Chemung Canal National Bank, dated June 7, 1867. The letter is handwritten in black ink and includes the engraved letterhead of the Second National Bank of Detroit. It appears that the bottom portion of the page has been torn off. The text of the letter is transcribed as follows: "Detroit, Mich., June 7, 1867 Chemung Canal Nat. Bk. I enclose for colln. [collection?] and returns 7185 H. C. Spaulding on your 119 29 reply. C.M. Davison"
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Typewritten letter, with envelope, signed Woolley and Chittenden, managers of the Hotel Pontchartrain to William D. Purdy, asking him to report for work on October 1, 1907, dated September 26, 1907. The letter is on Hotel Pontchartrain stationery, and the envelope is printed with the hotel's crest. The letter reads: Mr. W.D. Purdy, 1159 Third Avenue, Detroit Dear Sir:- Please report for work on October 1st. Kindly acknowledge receipt of this. Yours very truly, The Pontchartrain Hotel Company Woolley & Chittenden Managers. GHW/GEC
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handwritten note from Percy Ives to Mrs. Emil Solomon Heineman (Fanny Butzel), dated February 1896, regarding the date of a portrait he painted of Emil Solomon Heineman in 1877. The note reads: Dear Madam At the reception of Mrs. McGraw you asked me the date of the portrait of Mr. Heineman. I find that the portrait was commissioned on Oct. 21 1877 and that it was finished in Dec. of the same year. Yours very sincerely, Percy Ives
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- This 1-page letter was typewritten in blue text on a light tan paper by Charles H. Jacobs who was the Chairman of the scholarship fund as well as the Vice President and Managing Director of the Buhl Stamping Company. The company letterhead appears across the top of the page which is dated "Dec. 31, 1900" and is signed in black ink by Charles H. Jacobs. The letter is entitled, "The Detroit High School Scholarship Fund," and gives some brief history of how and why the fund was established in 1890.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Typewritten letter sent to the Clark Electrical Engineering Company from H. Kent McCay, president of the McCay Engineering Company of Baltimore, Maryland on May 30, 1906. In the brief message McCay informs Clark that they will being sending the specifications for wireless telegraph sets for Fort Wood, New York "within a few days." McCay closes with his signature. The letter was printed on McCay Engineering Company letterhead. "Army Navy Paper," has been handwritten in pencil near the bottom left corner of the recto.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Handwritten letter with envelope from writer Julian Hawthorne in Philadelphia, to Eli Ransom Sutton of the University of Michigan, postmarked May 12, 1902, concerning the prospect of writing a biography of Hazen S. Pingree. The letter is on Colonial Press stationery, however the letterhead has been crossed out. The letter reads: 1208 Spruce St. Phila. April 23, 1902 My dear Sutton, I have [?] considered your letter, and this is what I think. You have been at a lot of pains about the thing, out of [?], and I want to do all possible in the [?]. If the book is to be such as I can be[?] in four months. I am willing to undertake it for $2500, and half of whatever royalties may come in after this sum has been [?] by then[?]. The $2500 to be paid to me upon the ratifying of this understanding. The materials on [?] to be sent to me here, and I will then engage to furnish[?] the complete copy for the book, 350pp on or before Oct. 1st 1902. If Mrs. Pingree consents[?] to this, I would like to have the above minimum[?] fulfilled in[?] once. Of course I regret, on other accounts besides my own. There the book is to be curtailed: it would have made a splendid 2-vol. work. But I will do my best with it out of regard for the subject, one of the best of Americans. As [?] work, I will only [?] to bear in mind that I am cordially mistaken in it, and should more than plan to [?] help then. [?] Julian Hawthorne
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
