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Milton Mowrer letters to sister Ellen Miller Mowrer, 1866-1868
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I received the money and the papers in due time, and next week I will attend to the money affairs in Chester Co. I bought an overcoat for $30, it is a very good coat for me still it would not answer for the peeveing "zephers" of the Prairie, clothing is declined a great deal this fall, last winter this coat would have been $45 to fifty at the [Cociest?] shelf, the merchants can easily be the decline for they have been having the prices in their own hands. Open every letter, package that come for me to Alton, did you need not expect much amount of Greenbacks in them for your trouble, yet I would not be sorry if you did find a small fortune [illegible] a letter. I suppose you are very busy with the sewing of those clothing, I always knew you'd make a good seamstress. Kerosene for clock wheels, you'd better take a patent for this I think don't you? It is now used as medicine, what nasty stuff medicine is! Will, Sister if you have more prairie chickens than you can do anything with just ex
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I received the money and the papers in due time, and next week I will attend to the money affairs in Chester Co. I bought an overcoat for $30, it is a very good coat for me still it would not answer for the peeveing "zephers" of the Prairie, clothing is declined a great deal this fall, last winter this coat would have been $45 to fifty at the [Cociest?] shelf, the merchants can easily be the decline for they have been having the prices in their own hands. Open every letter, package that come for me to Alton, did you need not expect much amount of Greenbacks in them for your trouble, yet I would not be sorry if you did find a small fortune [illegible] a letter. I suppose you are very busy with the sewing of those clothing, I always knew you'd make a good seamstress. Kerosene for clock wheels, you'd better take a patent for this I think don't you? It is now used as medicine, what nasty stuff medicine is! Will, Sister if you have more prairie chickens than you can do anything with just ex
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