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Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Perrin Bliss letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230321132]
Identifier: MSS SC 2222
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters written from Chicago, Illinois and addressed to "Brother and Sister" Samuel and Eunice Moore, Mormons living in Utah. Bliss writes about family matters, the weather, the state and national economies, slavery, and Mormon polygamy. Bliss states that the Mormons should not practice slavery and that polygamy will not work.

Dates: 1857-1860

George M. White letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230321116]
Identifier: MSS SC 2220
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and typewritten letters addressed to S. B. Moore, Bliss' cousin of Provo, Utah. Bliss writes from Chicago, Illinois about the political scene in the United States and about the state of his personal business.

Dates: 1880-1881