A letter from Nicolasa Workman to Richard Garvey, 21 November 1881.

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

A letter from Nicolasa Workman to Richard Garvey, 21 November 1881.

Entry/Object ID

2021.3.1.86

Description

A letter from Nicolasa Workman to Richard Garvey, 21 November 1881. The document, penned by another person, likely Workman's grandson John H. Temple, and signed with an "x" as Mrs. Workman was illiterate, concerned delivering to her grandson an order of corn due as rent on land owned by her and leased to and farmed by Jesús Carrasco, whose crop Garvey (an agent of Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin on former Temple and Workman family properties taken over by him on foreclosure of a loan to the failed Temple and Workman bank. The document is signed by witness Edwin Beswick. With a few small stains, folds and light soiling, the condition is good.

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National Conference on City Planning, City planning--United States, Regional planning--United States, Transportation--Planning--United States

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Letters