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Dec 07, 2020, 9:54 PM67The word "Garfield" is handwritten at top of this letter. I believe the writer of that note was thinking this letter was during Garfield's 6 mth term as President of U.S. (1871). Actually, this no...
Nov 18, 2020, 9:23 PM19I believe the person being written to on this postcard is: Buel Sherman. See http://iagenweb.org/chickasaw/history/pitts_fredericksburg.pdf for information about Buel Sherman of Fredericksburg, IA.
Oct 30, 2020, 6:58 PM266The writer of this letter is Edward Sylvester Morse, whom became the Director of the Peabody Academy of Sciences in 1881. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027100851/http://geocities.com/~jmgo...
Oct 30, 2020, 1:07 PM27"Well-a-day" (or welladay) is an archaic word for exclaiming a sorrow or lamentation. See: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/welladay
Oct 30, 2020, 1:06 PM27"sure and yellow leaf" is an archaic phrase for getting old. See: https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/Captain_John_Finnis_-_Additional_Information
Oct 30, 2020, 12:44 PM20W. J. Beal is William James Beal. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Beal
Oct 29, 2020, 11:00 PM12Indeed, Huxley and Martin are the correct names... See: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/271634
Oct 29, 2020, 10:41 PM11The writer's signature looks like "Saint" Aughey - self-deprecating?
Oct 29, 2020, 10:40 PM11I believe the writer of this letter to be Samuel Aughey, UNL's first professor of Natural Sciences. See: http://unlhistory.unl.edu/exhibits/show/morrill-hall/augheyhicks/aughey
Oct 29, 2020, 9:50 PM5Desv. means Desvaux.

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