Box 6
Container
Contains 5 Results:
Correspondence
File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
- October-November 1902; Blair, George E., to Children
- This correspondence is loving fatherly letters sent home to his children while he is in Kansas City. Instructs them to be good, helpful, study hard, etc.
Dates:
1836-1968
Correspondence
File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
1883-1901; Blair, George E., to George Washington Thatcher, Jr.
George Blair and George Thatcher are good friends and correspond concerning George Thatcher's sisters, skating parties, and balls. Tells of the bad weather and of a man and his son being killed in a snowslide in the canyon. Included is a letter of condolence to "Wash" at the loss of his wife February 3, 1901.
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Dates:
1836-1968
Correspondence
File — Box: 6, Folder: 3
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
1888-1903; Blair, George E., to Luna Young Thatcher, known as Mimi (Mother-in-law)
These letters show a loving relationship and a business association between George and his mother-in-law, Luna Young Thatcher, "Mimi." In 1888 he discusses financial matters pertaining to a home George is leasing from the Thatchers. Sends rent money and collects rentals and helps rent some of the Thatcher property in...
Dates:
1836-1968
Correspondence
File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
No Dates; Blair, Sarah Jane Foster, to George E. Blair (Son)
Short letters containing motherly advice and love. Sends him a homemade prescription for "summer's complaint." "Boil 3-4 flour balls for 4 hours. Make flour ball with 1/2 c. flour folded in piece of muslin. Open them up and remove skin and grate flour ball. Make a thickened milk of it." Also cautions him to stay away from ice water.
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Dates:
1836-1968
Correspondence
File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents
- 1887-1902; Hansen, Mattie Blair (Sister), to George E. Blair
- Family exchange of news. Tells of it being thirty-four degrees below zero on January 12, 1888, in Logan, and everything in the house froze solid. Exchange letters and holiday greets at Christmas.
Dates:
1836-1968