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[Letter from Paul Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout, May 6, 1881]

Description: Letter from Paul Osterhout to John Patterson Osterhout. Paul wrote his father to inform him that Paul had been selected to write and present a speech for school. In addition to this, he told his father about the state of his personal finances and other small events that happened in the city.
Date: May 6, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Paul
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from Ora Osterhout to Paul Osterhout, May 6, 1886]

Description: Letter from Ora Osterhout from Paul Osterhout. She wrote to tell her brother that she wanted to hear from him more often and what was happening with their family. She told him that Gertrude sent him some money and that their father might be able to send some too. Gertrude has been thinking about attending school in Independence and Ora wrote of a garden that they had started.
Date: May 6, 1886
Creator: Osterhout, Ora
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from George W. Tyler to Paul Osterhout, May 20, 1905]

Description: Letter from George W. Tyler to Paul Osterhout. Geo wrote to thank Paul profusely for a gift and to update him on his family. Ora, Paul's sister, had been reelected to her position by the Board of Trustees and a Mrs. Osterhout had a fracture and would need crutches. Geo also mentioned crop prospects and other small bits of news.
Date: May 20, 1905
Creator: Tyler, George W.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from C. B. Wade to Paul Osterhout, May 29, 1913]

Description: Letter from C. B. Wade to Paul Osterhout. The letterhead reads that it was from the City National Bank. Wade wrote Paul to inform him of a telegram from John Jeremiah Osterhout's wife about her husband's death. She requested money for funeral arrangements and Wade had it sent to her.
Date: May 29, 1913
Creator: Wade, C. S.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Ora and Junia Roberts Osterhout, May 11, 1881]

Description: Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Ora and Junia Roberts Osterhout. She wrote to update her sisters about her life at school. Gertrude talked briefly about some of the lessons she has, a wedding she attended, and the bad table manners of the other girls in her boarding house. She spoke of shoes she had purchased and girls that reminded her of her sisters.
Date: May 11, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Gertrude
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, May 16, 1881]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout. She wrote to her mother to update her on her life at school. She spoke of how excited she was to go home, a trip to a nearby town she made with the boys, and a list of items she needed her mother to send.
Date: May 16, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Gertrude
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout, May 29, 1881]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Gertrude Osterhout to Junia Roberts Osterhout. She wrote home to update her mother on her life at school. Gertrude detailed to her mother some of the end-of-session events that would be happening for commencement and final examinations. She wrote of some girls who had fallen sick and a contest she had entered to win a poetry book.
Date: May 29, 1881
Creator: Osterhout, Gertrude
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from M. Nealy to Mr. Prewet - May 6, 1861]

Description: Letter from M. L. Durant to Mr. Prewet requesting the sum of $40 to be sent so that Mr. Durant may pay his debts.
Date: May 6, 1861
Creator: Durant, M. L.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from Reginald Moore to Allen Bogard, May 11, 2006]

Description: Letter from Reginald Moore to Allen Bogard discussing the collaboration between the Texas Slave Descendant's Society and the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum and asking to be kept abreast of all plans being made regarding Imperial Sugar and former prison properties in Sugar Land, Texas.
Date: May 11, 2006
Creator: Moore, Reginald
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from E. B. Nichols to Fred A. Rice - May 11, 1864]

Description: Letter from E. B. Nichols to Fred A. Rice alerting him not to send any more cotton bales to Lubbock, his friend, for reasons unable to be described in this letter. Instead, he tells Fred to send the Cotton to his friends in Alleyton, Texas.
Date: May 11, 1864
Creator: Nichols, E. B.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from William M. Rice to Fred A. Rice - May 12, 1863]

Description: Letter from William M. Rice, to his brother, Fred A. Rice discussing the conditions and lives of various people. He asks Fred to send more news and letters to him.
Date: May 12, 1863
Creator: Rice, William M.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from Jonas Johnston to F. A. Rice - May 17, 1864]

Description: Letter from Jonas Johnston to Fred A. Rice discussing an inability to send the 16 bales of cotton ordered because of a lack of suitable rope.
Date: May 17, 1864
Creator: Johnston, Jonas
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from F. M. Perry to Mr. Grovesbech and William M. Rice - May 3, 1864]

Description: Letter from F. M. Perry to Grovesbech and William M. Rice discussing the possible purchase of several tracts of land. He asks to purchase both properties with several installments and interest, with the first payment coming 12 months after the Treaty at Appomattox Court House (April 9th).
Date: May 3, 1864
Creator: Perry, F. M.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Receipt Exchanging Gold for Sterling, 1864]

Description: Receipt documenting the deposit of $5,000 in gold coin, exchanged via other companies for £321.03, which will be delivered by W. M. Rice & Co. to W. M. Rice.
Date: May 12, 1864
Creator: Anderson, P. C.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from E. B. Nichols to Mr. Rice - May 17, 1867]

Description: Letter from E. B. Nichols to Mr. Rice discussing the refusal of Armstrong to pay debt owed and a statement of the entire account of debts paid by Mr. Nichols.
Date: May 17, 1867
Creator: Nichols, E. B.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from Easton & Goodrich to William M. Rice - May 7, 1867]

Description: Letter from Easton & Goodrich to William M. Rice discussing the return of Easton from his trip. They also discuss Easton soon moving down to Houston to meet William and discuss the claims of lands by William.
Date: May 7, 1867
Creator: Easton & Goodrich
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[Letter from A. P. Lufkin to William M. Rice - May 8, 1867]

Description: Letter from A. P. Lufkin to William M. Rice discussing the dividend received from stock owned by William on the Southern Cotton Press & Manufacturing Company.
Date: May 8, 1867
Creator: Lufkin, A. P.
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center
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