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15 June 1862 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. Addressed to Mr. Mark Rankin, Co. B, 27th Regmt. Mass. V.M., Newbern, N. C. postmarked Erving, Massachusetts [extra postage for weight of handkerchief enclosed]. June 15, 1862. Business keeps about the same as usual. We are having the slaughterhouse plastered now and building a road to come out just below Packard’s. It is going to be quite an improvement. That $20 came all right and nothing to pa...
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17 November 1861 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. This letter was written to Mark Rankin by his sister, Jane P. (Rankin) Spring (1832-1898), of Hiram, Maine. Jane and her husband, Eben Howe Spring (1829-1900) were within a month of selling out in Maine and relocating to Erving, Massachusetts, where Eben had an offer to work in his father-in-law’s chair factory. November 17, [1861]. My dear Brother,. Eb and I are going to his mothers with the res...
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15 July 1862 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. July 15, 1862. Well here we are again as usual. People are into the haying business now. About two forty and hay is tip top. Father goes to Boston and Maine tomorrow. Chair business goes tip top. Had two orders today but [as for] fun — there is none. Nothing but work. It is the dullest here for fun that I ever knew it. I have been figuring up the shook accounts today and since last November we ha...
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Noah Rankin’s Letters – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Three of the letters in this collection were written by Deliza Jane Thayer — a young, attractive but precocious girl who flirted with many of the young men in Erving but finally set her sights on Mark Rankin until his death in 1864. Her writing suggests that she had only a rudimentary formal education; her father was a factory worker in the area. Calling Card; ca. 1863.
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31 June 1862 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. June 31, 1862. We read your last letter Monday and we are the same as usual “all right.”. The] Fourth will be along in four days now and it is going to be dull judging from appearances. There is to be a dance at the [Town] Hall by Puts baird [? I do not believe it will be much of a time but can’t tell. Will let you know all about it. I hope there won’t any of them fall down. Ed[ward] Coolidge was...
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18 May 1862 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. May 18, 1862. I am most too lazy to write but will try and see what I can do. The goods have come and quite a lot of them. I have had lots to do and have been at work all day making goods and putting them up and I am as tired as a dog. Hen[ry] Benjamin and wife are in town. His wife is not very dangerously sick, I guess. The trees have leaved out and it has been quite warm for a few days. Father ...
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18 August 1862 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. August 18, 1862. Yours of August 12th is this day received. I have been to Orange today and was sworn and qualified as Justice of the Peace. Business is tip top now. We have got more orders on hand than we can fill. They want the chairs before the first of September as then there is three percent [sales] tax goes onto them and it may be dull on account of that. I sent you this morning a. Give my ...
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30 July 1862 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. Addressed to Mr. Mark Rankin, Co. B, 27 Regmt Mass. Vol. (Gen. Burnside’s Div), Newbern N. C. postmarked Erving, Massachusetts. July 30, 1862. I saw Mr. [William B.] Washburn. I have got my documents for Esq. all right and now all I got to do is to be sworn [in as Justice of the Peace]. The commission runs for seven years. Everything remains as usual and if anything should turn up, I shall write ...
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7 October 1862 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. Addressed to Mark Rankin, Co. B, 27th Reg. Mass. Vol. Newbern, N. C. postmarked Erving Massachusetts. October 7, 1862. I received your letter this morning with $10 enclosed which makes one hundred in all and is doing pretty [well] for the first year. We have not much news. Jane is at Maine yet and is having a fine visit. I sent the letter I received before this one today to her. Arty Bodman [10th...
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8 July 1862 – Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin
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Homefront Letters to Mark Rankin. Co B, 27th Massachusetts Vols. Noah Rankin’s Letters. Alma Trask’s Letters. Addressed to Mr. Mark Rankin, Co. B, 27th Regiment Mass. Vols., Newbern, N. C. postmarked Erving, Massachusetts. July 8, 1862. Mrs Hen[ry] Trask [Alvina Stebbins] was just in the store and says give my love to Mark. There was very little going on for the Fourth in any of the towns. People thought they would wait until after the war and then have a jolly time. Charles Whittaker and Ferdinand Packa...