Letter

Name/Title

Letter

Entry/Object ID

2014.2.3270

Scope and Content

A handwritten letter in black ink from the Pickering Coal Company, St Joseph, Mo. offering a bid to The Board of Managers, State Hospital No. 2, dated Sept. 7, 1908. It is on lined Pickering Coal Company letterhead, 'miners and shippers of Richmond, Pickering, Camden, wholesale and retail COAL', St Joseph, MO.

Context

Gentlemen, We offer a bid for your consideration of our Richmond hand picked coal from Pickering Coal Cos Mines Nos 9 and 11 located about one and one quarter miles west of Richmond Mo. on the A. T. & S. F. R. R., delivered as per Specifications mailed us August 15th 1908, for the sum of two dollars and eighty three cents ($2.83) per ton of 2000 lbs. Yours Respt., by L. Randall, Manager.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Letter

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Primary Language

English

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

8½" x10½"