Letter from Emma Baker Martin to Betty Kirby Eller, 17 January 1898
 


Citation

“Letter from Emma Baker Martin to Betty Kirby Eller, 17 January 1898,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/items/show/14977.


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Title

Letter from Emma Baker Martin to Betty Kirby Eller, 17 January 1898

Description

This is a letter from Emma Baker Martin to her aunt Betty Kirby Eller. The letter discusses two things primarily, butter and other household items. Betty sent Emma several pounds of butter as part of a long-running exchange of goods they have set up, this is featured heavily in their letters. The rest of the letter continues to discuss the various prices of products and problems friends or people in town are having with certain goods.

Subject

Prices
Butter

Date

1898-01-17

Format

PDF
Letters (Correspondence)

Extent

5 pages

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

2012_045_1898_0117

Coverage

Ashe County (N.C.)

Spatial Coverage

https://www.geonames.org/4453028/ashe-county.html

Temporal Coverage

1890s