This letter describes the delivery of the KALULA to its new home on the Pamlico River.
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To: Mr. Zephaniah Askew, Harrellsville, Hertford Co., N. C.
Form 36.
Southern Express Company,
Express Forwarders,
Plymouth Dec 17th 1877
Dear Father
I have just returned from Bath or Washington where I carried the Str Kalula I got back this morning we had quite a nice trip over there with the exception of a little windy through the sounds, She is sold and delivered- I have got to go up to Windsor tonight and help Dick untill [until] Christmas- I will be up home
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next week, say about Wednesday nigh [night]- I hope you are making arrangment [arrangments] to come down here next year- Tell mamie she will have to keep her turkeys untill [until] after Christmas- The market seems to be glutted now your son.
E. S. Askew
Citation: | E. S. Askew to Father [Zephaniah Askew], December 17, 1877, Plymouth, NC, Askew Family Papers. |
Location: | East Carolina Manuscript Collection, Manuscripts and Rare Books, Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858 USA |
Call Number: | Askew Family Papers, #298.1.b View Collection |