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Box 2

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

E. M. Chapman, 1887 - 1891

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 63
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 1887 - 1891

Postcard from E. M. Chapman at Troup to his brother-in-law John Rusk at Nacogdoches about his travel plans, 8/1887

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 8/1887

Postcard from E. M. Chapman at Elmo to his sister Henrietta Rusk at Nacogdoches about family and poor weather, 3/20/1888

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 3/20/1888

Letter from E. M. Chapman at Elmo to his sister Henrietta Rusk about family, family photographs, weather, and the effect of the bollworm on their cotton crop, 8/12/1888*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 8/12/1888*

Postcard from E. M. Chapman at Ranger to his brother-in-law John Rusk at Nacogdoches about the lack of recent correspondence, 3/23/1890

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 3/23/1890

Postcard from E. M. Chapman at Eastland to his brother-in-law John Rusk at Nacogdoches about the syrup business, 2/28/1891*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 2/28/1891*

Three-page letter (front and back) from E. M. Chapman at Eastland to John Rusk at Nacogdoches about Eastland Co.—cotton and wheat production there, the decline of the stock business, land quality, society and religion, and the prospects if John or other members of the Rusk family moved there. Includes envelope, 5/25/1891*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 5/25/1891*

Letter from E. M. Chapman at Eastland to his brother-in-law John Rusk at Nacogdoches about Rusk’s son (recto). Letter from E. M. Chapman at Eastland to his nephew William Thomas Rusk asking if he will come work for Chapman (verso), 8/5/1891*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, Item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 8/5/1891*

Letter from E. M. Chapman at Eastland to John Rusk about being burnt out and overextended financially from buying too much land. Chapman is dealing with creditors and has four years remaining on his bank loan, 12/1/1891*

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 63, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of this collection consists of accounts, bills, advertising circulars, county records, correspondence, notes, postcards, promissory notes, and receipts addressed to David Rusk or his son John Rusk. This collection will have appeal for both the casual observer and the serious historian or researcher. Documents deserving special consideration in the collection include: • Letters (60) between Texas’ first U.S. Senator, Thomas J. Rusk, and his younger brother...
Dates: 12/1/1891*