Steven | January 22, 2011
I’ve been transcribing a wonderful letter from 1834 that I wanted to share. Dr. William Grimes of Maryland is writing his childhood friend Adam Glossbrenner, a newspaper editor in York, Pa. who is writing a history of the area at the time of the letter. Grimes wants Glossbrenner to move with him to the “frontier [...]
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Steven | January 2, 2011
Here’s an example of how I have spent my New Year’s weekend: transcribing documents such as this 1845 letter discussing outgoing President Tyler and incoming President Polk, written to Adam J Glossbrenner, who’d just been hired by the office of the Clerk of the US House of Representatives. This is the first of four pages: [...]
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