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Courtship letters where Albert also writes of church and farming.

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Courtship letters where Dora also mentions horseback riding. She is Mrs. Albert Ives by March 1869.

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Ardent courtship letters. Albert is ill in January 1858. Valentine cards are mentioned in February.

Scope and Contents Letters about friendship; ambiguous intimate relationship between women. Letters from a friend, Minnie, mostly from Washington City, in which Minnie sometimes appears to express romantic feelings for Dora. February 6th, 1868 from Washington, D.C.: "Last evening we went to General Grant's reception. " Springvale Va, September 29th: "I have told you before my "true love," __ how much I think of you, for all you hurt my feelings dreadfully coming from Vienna I saw nothing improper in riding...

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Letters about family news, business requests, land sale negation and October 24, 1917 postcard "You have been appointed Judge of Election at Falls Church Prec't Nov 6 – 1917."

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Letters about family affairs and updates from friends, some about a recent move. Many letters are difficult to read.

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Scope and ContentsTtravel writing (U.S. West), government correspondence.

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Wedding invitations, souvenir postcards from northeastern U.S.

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Ledgers from wagon-making business.

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Popular medicine, grocery receipts.

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Ledger of supplies for local wagon-making business, local republican politics, banking.

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Advertisements: references made to prohibition in promotional letter from The Hayner Distilling Co. (1916); racist cartoon used in advertisement for Republic Paint & Lead Works Petro-carbonite ("The black that can't come off").

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2 bank slips.

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Tax forms.

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Membership card for Independent Order of Oddfellows for C.J. Ives, 1950; certificate of common shares (5) for W.E. Tillotson Manufacturing Company, 1920; commemorative Coast and Geodetic Survey stamps, circa 1957.

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Certificate of shares, membership card, sketch, and newspaper clippings.

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Sketch of house with spiritual essay written on back.