- GLC#
- GLC03523.10.198-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 17, 1884
- Author/Creator
- Tibbits, A. W., fl. 1884-1886
- Title
- to J. M. Maitland and family
- Place Written
- Clarksville, Illinois
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 31 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
Reports his nephew was also a candidate for clerk of the county. Expresses dismay at the outcome of the election; "...the only drinking gambling whoring man got it..." Mentions the poor health of one of the horses, "...I think at the next moon she will go blind..." Complains about the quality of the circulars he received. Letter is brown with small holes and fraying on the edges.
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