John Keith Letters
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Keith Paper Company was the third mill to be built on the post Civil War power canal, in Turners Falls MA |
| This collection is the outgoing personal and business correspondence of the company's president, John Keith. These are wet sponged duplicates created by placing the newly inked letter behind a page in a bound "onion skin" paper book and sponging some of the ink up and into the onion skin sheet. This gave Keith a reference duplicate of his outgoing letters before mailing it out to the recipient. Unfortunately, it is only one side of the conversation. |
| This archive covers the years between 1875 until Keith's death in 1886 |
For easy reading, first download and read the three compiled PDF volumes. Detailed images of each page may be further examined by then searching the database for individual page numbers |
| Volume 1 |
| Volume 2 |
| Volume 3 |
| Special thanks to Ed Gregory for his comprehensive transcriptions of these difficult images and for the added comments and context to the history he discovered. |