REQUESTING CARS FOR FUTURE LOADS, IN AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER, signed May 11, 1870, from Jackson, Tennessee, to R. Colquhonn, Assistant Superintendent, in Water Valley, Mississippi

by B. F. Blue

$50 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

4to. One-page, approximately 125 words, in part: “There is 1 Car load stock here for Canton and I have no Stock Car. Please send me one by No. 3 tomorrow … also please send me 4 box cars and 2 flat cars as all or nearly all the M & Ohio Cars are unfit to go on this road and it saves rent! … I can use from 3 to 5 box cars every day if you can send them here.” The letter is written on association letterhead, with a cut 3/4 x 2 5/8 inches of a train in an

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