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| Letter from Carrie Richardson to her father Enoch Stanley 1876 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
|  Letter from Carrie Richardson to her father Enoch Stanley 1876 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter, from Carrie Richardson to her father (Enoch Stanley), on Saturday morning Nov. 18 [18]76. Transcribed. Subjects: price of Hake sounds at .75 cents a pound (hake fish swim-bladders used in isinglass - a transparent gelatin used as a clarifying agent.); various family and Islanders whereabouts including Robert Spurling, Preble, Holmes, Reverend Augustus Smith, George Gilley, Ed Bunker, Asa, Hayes, Tilden, and Ed Truworthy giving her lessons on Mary's Melodeon (a small organ or possibly accordion). She mentions her husband Meltiah Richardson (Mell) in New York and how she may not go on the next trip unless he takes a load of Coal on somewhere. [show more] File Attachment: 00000178.txt …Uncle John has gone to Gouldsboro Point to carry George Work- man and get his things on board and then move him to Bar Harbor. …will be in a hurry to get married that is I expect George will bring his in the vessel and Still will get you to sign bills of Lading through to Bar …Harbor in hopes to find his market there. …Mr Smith went to North East Harbor. Tell Ed Bunker his wife is over to Suttons Island on a visit. |