Allen Sutliff to Levi Sutliff

Letter

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Sutliff Museum

Name/Title

Allen Sutliff to Levi Sutliff

Entry/Object ID

SM.1971.2.40

Tags

1830s, Business, Correspondence Between Sutliffs, Family, Illness, Money

Description

Letter from Allen Sutliff to Levi Sutliff. Allen writes about his childrens' health. He then goes into writing about the latest in this business including an ad that cost $5 and waiting for payment of claims and services performed. Allen looked back through his dockets and transcripts to find one his overlooked and handed it in to be closed then finishing up his business as that county's Magistrate. Allen writes about the death of his child from a severe burn(?) and how it has left a dreadful pain in their family. Laurel(?) B Trotter of Vienna was to deliver a letter to his father about the child's death. Allen traveled 2 or 3 hundred miles in the territory for land and has never saw anything more beautiful, fertile with good water. Levi made an agreement in a previous letter to go out to Allen to help him in January and agreeing to loan him $300 for the purchase of the land. The continues on with the low value of goods in the area and asking for Levi to bring some goods from Ohio to sell.

Collection

Levi Sutliff Document Collection

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

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Sutliff, Levi

Person or Organization

Sutliff, Allen Curtis

Person or Organization

Sutliff, Tully

Person or Organization

Sutliff, Electa

Person or Organization

Sutliff, Matilda

Person or Organization

Sutliff, Phebe Lord Marvin

Person or Organization

Pratt, AL

Person or Organization

Hallock, George

Person or Organization

Trotter, Laurel(?) B