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Title Letters of Nellie Thatcher Blair to George E. Blair, 1900-1902
Alternative Title 0120_07_06
Creator Blair, Nelliie Thatcher, 1843-1941
Contributor Blair, George E.
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1900; 1902
Temporal Coverage 1900-1902
Date Digital 2013-04-26
Spatial Coverage Logan (Utah); Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History; Utah--History; Smallpox--Utah
Description 1900-1902; Blair, Nellie Thatcher, to George E. Blair. January 18, 1900, Nellie is writing to George concerning illnesses of the children. The scare of the spread of smallpox concerns her and she has spread chloride of lime all around and is burning sulphur as a precaution. George is again in New York on a business trip and she is in Logan where she spends part of the summer with her family. Pleads with him to be sure to pay the bills and often writes for money. In March 1902 she writes again to New York where he is working on getting produced. She has spent their fourteenth wedding anniversary alone in Logan with the children. Her father, George Thatcher, is very ill. Nellie's sister Connie is married in the Logan Temple to Alex Nibley. She urges George to use caution in his business dealings with the play and not to make promises that he cannot fill. After had evidently failed, she writes from Logan while George is traveling with the play Tries to encourage him and strengthen him with her love and promises to send him some money if he is out of cash. Tells him to return home for the holidays if nothing else turns up. Worries about her home and belongings in Salt Lake City, having been away for so long. The last letter is dated May 17, 1905, from Salt Lake City to George who is in San Francisco
Collection Number and Name MS0120 Philip T. Blair Family Papers
Type Text
Genre Correspondence
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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File Name 0120_07_06.pdf
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