21 August 1875, Letter from Johann Peter Frautschi to his brother Christian Frautschi
About the Original Manuscript:
August 21, 1875, letter from Johann Peter Frautschi
to his brother Christian Frautschi.
Original in University of Wisconsin-Madison. Max Kade Institute.
Frautschi Letters (MKI/Frautschi3/JP8-1875)
Sender: Johann
Peter Frautschi
Letter begins: Dear Brother, I received the precious letter...
Date: 1875 Aug 21, Elisabeth, MN
Published versions: none
Physical Description: [1] leaf ; 21 x 13 cm
Notes: In German. Ragged on left edge. In blue ink on lined
paper. Faint watermark of indeterminate crest in upper left corner.
Accompanied by envelope, 8 x 14 cm. Cancellation marks for Elizabethtown,
MN.
About the Electronic Version:
Creation of machine-readable version: Carrie
Seib, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conversion to TEI-conformant markup: Carrie Seib, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
LIS839
Special Collections in the Digital Environment (Spring 2000)
Note: Page images have been included from the original source.
front |
verso |
jpeg file (front) | jpeg file (verso) |
envelope
front |
back |
jpeg file (front) | jpeg file (back) |
Credits (scanned images): Carrie Seib and Allen Verbrugge
Date(s) of scanning: April 17, 2000
Hardware: Mikrotek Scan Maker 4
Scanning software: Scan Wizard 3.2.4 (MicrotekLab, Inc.,
c1995)
Summary:
Johann Jacob Frautschi requests his brother Christian send money to be invested. Brief discussion of the harvest, the weather, and a sick child.
Text of letter:
| German | English | SGML-encoded text |
Transliteration:
Translation:
Markup: Carrie Seib
Editorial Notes:
The punctuation was retained as found in the original translation.
Commercial use prohibited. Copyright 2000, by the The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Created: 14 April 2000
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