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Subject Source: Gilcrease Culture Terms

Found in 6473 Collections and/or Records:

Personal Letter from John Drew addressed to My Dear Sister , April 28, 1874

 Item — Folder 401: [Barcode: 61.401]
Identifier: 4026.3517
Description

John writes to his sister that he was superintending a boarding car near Vinita. He asks how she is getting along and tells her if she needed anything she could sell his ponies. Post script instructs his sister to send his clothes to Mr. Ross at first opportunity if she had not already done so. Folder 401

Dates: April 28, 1874

Personal letter from John Drew to his sister, Emma Robinson, concerning Sugg's sickness, December 2, 1877

 Item — Folder 434: [Barcode: 61.434]
Identifier: 4026.3519
Description

Letter was written in pencil on Sunday December 2, 1877. John Drew told his sister that Tom Griffin from the male seminary came that evening and told him that Sugg was very sick with pneumonia. John Vann had sent for John Drew and was going up that night. John Drew asked his sister if it were possible for her to go up and see Sugg because he probably would not recover. Sugg had been ill for 8 days and was getting worse. Folder 434

Dates: December 2, 1877

Personal letter from John Drew to Joe Vann, May 25, 1874

 Item — Folder 402: [Barcode: 61.402]
Identifier: 4026.1993
Description John Drew wrote from Eufaula Station, Creek Nation to his friend Joe Vann. Drew told Vann that the railroad was more lonesome than it was before. Drew also asks about his horses and how the girls are getting along. Drew told Vann that he never heard from the girls anymore and he thought it was because Vann was telling the girl tales about him and he was not there to tell them otherwise. Drew teased Vann saying that he was better looking and that was why he was telling the girls tales. Folder...
Dates: May 25, 1874

Personal letter from John Fulsom to Hon. P. P. Pitchlynn , February 2, 1877

 Item — Folder 3003: [Barcode: 177.3003]
Identifier: 4026.7339

Personal letter from Kate Drew to brother concerning money needed to come home and for examinations, April 14, 1883

 Item — Folder 495: [Barcode: 61.495]
Identifier: 4026.2077-.1
Description

Kate addressed the letter Dear Brother to Mr. Robinson. Kate asked him to send $250.00 that was needed to come home. Letter signed Kate Drew. Post script stated that she received a letter from Mr. R. L. Owen who was the secretary of the Board of Education at Tahlequah concerning requirements to work at the seminary. She urges him again to send money. Post script signed Kate. Folder 495

Dates: April 14, 1883

Personal letter from Kate Drew to brother concerning money, school ending, coming home, March 28, 1883

 Item — Folder 493: [Barcode: 61.493]
Identifier: 4026.2075
Description

Kate informed her brother that in nine weeks school would be ending and she asked if he could send money. She was applying for a position at the Female Seminary. Kate was anxious to be home after being away for two years. Folder 493

Dates: March 28, 1883

Personal letter from L. S. Folsom to Col. Pitchlynn , May 10, 1874

 Item — Folder 2817: [Barcode: 177.2817]
Identifier: 4026.7170