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Ingalls opened this letter with comments on the weather ("the fine days are so beautiful as to compensate for a large amount of ambiguous weather"), problems with shipping freight, and mention of various items of clothing he had received from the family, but he gave considerable attention to the city of Atchison, its newspaper (Freedom's Champion) and its growth. Sumner compared favorably, as to future prospects, in Ingalls's estimation, with the location of future railroads the key to success. He also encouraged his father to make a spring visit so he could assess for himself "the opportunities for business and the prospects of progress" in this "most important party of the continent."
Creator: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
Date: December 2, 1858
Item Number: 2929
Call Number: John James Ingalls Coll. #177 Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2929
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Newspaper
Business and Industry - Railroad
Business and Industry - Trucking and freighting
Collections - Manuscript - Ingalls, John James
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Environment - Weather
Home and Family - Clothing
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
Places - Cities and towns - Atchison
Places - Cities and towns - Sumner (Atchison)
Places - Counties - Atchison
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Non-motorized - Stagecoaches
Transportation - Railroads
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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