1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 1--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION
Year: 1858
Date: 1858-08-23
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Kent
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Ernie's Michigan Collection
, MI Genealogy
, Michigan Stampless Letters
, Letters Containing Correspondence
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1. 1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 1--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
2. 1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 2--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
3. 1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 3--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
4. 1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 4--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
5. 1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 1--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
6. 1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 2--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
7. 1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 3--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..
8. 1858-08-23 +GRAND RAPIDS MICH --- BLUE CDS 33MM --- LETTER TO CANADA ---TO SANFORD YALE AT PRINCETON, OXFORD COUNTY, CANADA WEST FROM HIS FATHER W. YALE AT GRAND RAPIDS----HENRY & GEORGE HAD ABOUT THE BEST WHEAT IN THIS SECTION. GEORGE HAD THRASHED HIS & HAD ABOUT 19 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE. ABE HAS NOT THRASHED YET, BUT HIS IS THOUGHT TO BE FULL AS GOOD OR BETTER THAN GEORGE.---I SEE CANADA HAS BEEN MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO ABOLISH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT WHICH LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE PROGRESS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION-----THE WHOLE WORLD SEEMS TO BE GOING TO HAVE A GENERAL JUBILEE OVER THE SUCCESSFUL WIND UP OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPERIMENT & IT IS NOT VERY SURPRISING THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, FOR IT IS A GREAT SUCCESS & CALCULATED TO PRODUCE RESULTS THAT HAVE NOT YET FOUND A PLACE IN OUR MOST SANGUINE IMAGINATIONS-----IT APPEARS THAT CANADA HAS GOT THE RAILROAD FEVER...AND CANADA WHEN THREADED WITH RAILROADS AS IT WILL BE IS DESTINED TO BE THE FINEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, OR AT LEAST THAT I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT----YES WE HAVE THE CARS NOW AT GRAND RAPIDS, THE LONG AGOING IS OVER AND GRAND RAPIDS IS NO LONGER THE OUT OF THE WAY PLACE IS USED TO WAS, & WE BEGIN TO FEEL AS IF WE COULD SHAKE HANDS WITH THE REST OF MANKIND---THEY ARE MAKING SOMETHING OF A SPLURGE ABOUT A NORTH & SOUTH RAILROAD CALLED THE INDIANA & GRAND RAPIDS RAILROAD---GENEALOGY---4PGS---PAGE 4--- ERNIE'S COLLECTION Read More..