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The biggest share of this 8-page letter is devoted to comments on the weather and the environment, in and around Atchison, where Ingalls now had a law practice (for a time, he continued to live in Sumner). He missed some aspects of "Massachusetts weather," but overall he thought Kansas superior: "I have not had a cold in six months and but one or two since I came here . . . [and] The attacks of melancholy and despondency to which I was once a prey have also almost entirely disappeared." Ingalls also wrote of two arson fires--"a large grocery house" and "the steamer Hesperian," and the expected fate of the suspect then in custody.
Creator: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
Date: August 21, 1860
Item Number: 2987
Call Number: John James Ingalls Coll. #177 Box 1 Folder 2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2987
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Lawyers
Business and Industry - Retail - Grocery stores
Collections - Manuscript - Ingalls, John James
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Fires
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Environment - Weather
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment
Home and Family - Daily life - Health and Hygiene
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
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Water - Steamboats
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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