Information Sheet
R
893 Letters, 1915-1920.
One folder.
These are typescript copies of letters dated 27
November 1915 and 27 May 1920 from John H. Friant, President of the
Himmelberger-Harrison Land Selling Company at Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau
County, Missouri, to the Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company in Cape Girardeau
and A. W. Wilkey at Risco in
The letterheads of the Himmelberger-Harrison Land
Selling Company identify it as the “Land Sales Dept. Himmelberger-Harrison Lbr. Co.” The latter firm was one of the leading exploiters
of timber in the “Bootheel” of
The earlier letter notified the parent company that
“Ben J. Atwell and his brother” had contracted for land in Section 22 of
Township 22, Range 11, but “that on account of misfortune he will not be able
to carry out his contract.” This is an
original letter on letterhead stationery and initialed by John H. Friant.
The later letter dealt with a proposal by Friant to
simplify the billing and payment procedure “for hauling piling out to the
spur” in fulfillment of the “Adkins contract.”
This item is a typescript copy, on letterhead stationery, of the
original letter, which had been “turned over to Marlowe,
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