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21 December 1877, Letter from Johann Peter Frautschi to his brother Christian Frautschi
About the Original Manuscript:
21 December 1877, from Johann Peter Frautschi to his brother Christian
Frautschi
Original in University of Wisconsin-Madison. Max Kade Institute.
Frautschi Letters (MKI/Frautschi3/JP1877)
Title of Document and Statement of Responsibility:
Title: [Letter 21 December 1877] Elizabethtown,
MN, [from] Johann Peter Frautschi [to his brother] Christian Frautschi
Author: Johann Peter Frautsch
Letter begins:
(English) Dear Brother, Last Thursday I received your letter
with the photographs of your boy
(German) Wether Bruder, Deinem Brief mit den Photographien
von deinem Knaben erhielt ich letzten Donnerstag ...
Date: 21 December 1877, Elizabethtown, MN
Published versions: none
Physical Description: [4] pages on [2] leaves; 21
x 25cm, folded to 8 x 13 cm.\
Notes: Written in grey ink. Blue lined paper, embossed
with a small block figure in the shape of a 'w', 1 x 2cm. Accompanying
material: envelope 8 x 13cm. Annotations: stamp on envelope has
been cut out, later addition in pencil of "21 Dec/77 K"
to front of envelope, the envelop has been machine-cancelled by
the post office.
About the Electronic Version:
Creation of machine-readable version: Kirstin
Dougan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conversion to TEI-conformant markup: Kirstin Dougan, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
LIS839
Special Collections in the Digital Environment (Spring 2000)
Note: Page images have been included from the original source.
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Credits (scanning): Kirstin Dougan
Dates(scanning): April 10, 2000
Image manipulation (Photoshop 5.5): April 17, 2000; April
24, 2000
Hardware: Mikrotek Scan Maker 4
Scanning Software: ScanWizard 3.2.4 (Mikrotek Lab, Inc.,
c1995)
Summary:
In this letter Johann Peter Frautschi thanks his brother Christian
for the picture he sent of him and his son. Johann says that he
can only send a picture of himself and his wife in return. Johann
comments on the locust plague that they had that year and that
they only harvested 91 bushels of wheat. Johann tells Christian
about the illnesses he and his family have been experiencing in
the past year.
Text of letter:
| German | English | SGML-encoded text |
Transliteration:
Translation:
Markup:
Editorial Notes:
Commercial use prohibited. Copyright 2000, by the The Board
of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Created: 14 April 2000
Comments to: dalbello@scils.rutgers.edu
or kkurdylo@wisc.edu
