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J. Augusta (Goodrich) Griffing wrote from Owego, New York, to her husband James in Topeka, Kansas Territory. Ms. Griffing was visiting her family in New York for the first time since she'd moved to Kansas Territory in 1855. She described visiting friends and extended family in the Owego area, attending church, and purchasing items that she planned to take back to Kansas Territory. She wrote Mr. Griffing instructions on how to make pickles from cucumbers that he harvested from their kitchen garden in Kansas Territory.
Creator: Griffing, Jemima August (Goodrich)
Date: August 7, 1859
Item Number: 7528
Call Number: James Sayre Griffing Coll. #364 Box 1 Folder 6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 7528
Agriculture - Crops - Fruits
Collections - Manuscript - Griffing, James Sayre
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Home and Family - Clothing
Home and Family - Courtship and marriage - Marriage
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking - Canning and preserving
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Women
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Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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