Information Sheet

 

 

R         Millard, A. M.

1216                Letter, 1886.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a letter of 2 October 1886 from A. M. and C. R. Millard, dealers in dry goods at Rolla in Phelps County, Missouri, to Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Georgia.  The letter concerns an order for cotton yarn.

 

A. M. and C. R. Millard were “Dealers in Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Glassware, Queensware, Etc., Lumber, Shingles, and Building Material.”  This let­ter is an order for four different varieties of cotton yarn, to be shipped via the “Frisco” railway through St. Louis.  The Millards added that the yarn “gives our trade very good satisfaction, and we hope to be able to use it exclusively.  Can’t you have labels put on it with our names – some­thing like this – Manufactured expressly for A. M. & C. R. Millard, Rolla, Mo.”

 

A stamp on the letterhead indicates that it was answered on 5 October 1886 by A. I. Young, Treasurer.  Eagle & Phenix was said to have been the largest mill in the southern United States by 1878.

 

 

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