Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1900 — A Letter 160 Years Old. [ARTICLE]

A Letter 160 Years Old.

A very interesting feature of the Old Folks’ Entertainment, Friday evening, will be a letter written 160 years ago, by a young lady to her parents. It is a genuine letter and has been procured, at a great deal of trouble, from a distance, by Mrs. W. T. Perkins. It was written by a young lady in Massachusetts to her parents, who had previously emigrated into the then wild regions of New York. Owing to its special interest this letter will be read in both rooms, during some portions of the double program.