- GLC#
- GLC01450.712.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 8, 1858
- Author/Creator
- Foster, fl. 1858
- Title
- to his cousin
- Place Written
- Providence, Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
He received his cousin's paper, but has not written earlier because his studies, at Brown University, have kept him busy. Reports of a local stable fire in which eight of sixty horses died and nearly all their carriages were destroyed. Two days later, their was an attempt to set fire to another stable. A hackman was suspected. Mentions good weather and discusses skating. A note on the back, possibly a response to a letter from Annie mentioned in the letter's main body, records a day's schedule a Brown.
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