BIB_ID
361776
Accession number
MA 3260.19
Creator
King, Rufus, 1755-1827.
Display Date
1817 Jan. 19.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Seth Dennis, 1978.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters from Rufus and Mary King to their son Frederic Gore King. Letters are described in individual records; please see collection record for MA 3260 for more details.
Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1814.
Part of a collection of letters from Rufus and Mary King to their son Frederic Gore King. Letters are described in individual records; please see collection record for MA 3260 for more details.
Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1814.
Provenance
Gertrude W. Dennis.
Summary
Expressing pleasure that their oats did so well; asking about whether they are filling the ice house; discussing a favorable change in the weather; mentioning parties in Washington; commenting on a letter he received from Frederic's brother Edward; giving instructions for how potatoes should be sorted and which fowls "should be killed for the table"; telling James to "give the Trotter some English Hay" cut up "in the Chaff-Cutter."
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