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James Griffing wrote from Topeka, Kansas Territory, to his wife J. Augusta (Goodrich) Griffing. Mrs. Griffing was visiting her family in New York for the first time since her arrival in the Kansas Territory in 1855. Griffing described his efforts to perform household chores in his wife's absence, including cooking, milking the cow, churning butter, doing the laundry, butchering chickens, and gardening.
Creator: Griffing, James S. (James Sayre), 1822-1882
Date: July 28, 1859
Item Number: 6995
Call Number: James Sayre Griffing Coll. #364 Box 1 Folder 6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 6995
Collections - Manuscript - Griffing, James Sayre
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Home and Family - Courtship and marriage - Marriage
Home and Family - Daily life - Farm chores - Milking
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Butchering
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Butter making
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Meal preparation
Home and Family - Daily life - Gardening
Home and Family - Daily life - Housework - Laundry
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - New York
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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