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18 February 1881, Letter from Johann Peter Frautschi to his brother Christian Frautschi
About the Original Manuscript:
[Letter] 18 February 1881, from Johann
Peter Frautschi to his brother Christian Frautschi
Original in University of Wisconsin-Madison. Max Kade Institute.
Frautschi Letters (MKI/Frautschi3/JP1881)
Sender: Johann Peter Frautschi
Letter begins: Dear Brother, I received your letter
and...
Date: 1881 Feb. 18, Elizabeth, Minnesota
Published versions: None
Physical Description: [4] p. on [2] leaves; 19.8
x 12 cm., folded 6.5 x 12 cm.
Notes: Letter on beige ruled paper with brown ink.
Watermark visible on each page. Accompanied by envelope, postmarked
on front with Elizabeth, Mn. Feb. 17, 1881 and postmarked on back
with Madison, Feb. 18, 1881. Torn on upper left corner front of
envelope and torn on lower left corner of verso of envelope; 7.8
x 12.6 cm.
About the Electronic Version:
Creation of machine-readable version: Sylvia
Pfender, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conversion to TEI-conformant markup: Sylvia Pfender, 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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envelope
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back |
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Credits (scanned images): Sylvia Pfender
Date(s) of scanning: 4/14/00
Hardware: Mikrotek Scan Maker 4
Scanning software: Scan Wizard 3.2.4 (MicrotekLab, Inc.,
c1995)
Summary:
Johann Peter Frautschi reports he is happy to hear of the
good health of his brother and his brother's family. He thanks
him for sharing news of Peter Jakob and discusses the problems
of land acquisitions, people incurring debts, problems with locusts,
drinking and laziness that may be causing failure among some people.
He discusses family news which family members he has heard
from and which he has no news of, talks of several marriages and
immigration of some members to America, health issues and his
children's education.
Text of letter:
| German | English | SGML-encoded text |
Transliteration: Marcel Rotter
Translation: Fred Dingledy (edited by) Annie Reinhardt and
Suzanne Townley
Markup: Sylvia Pfender, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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
