Letter from Lee Hall to Mr. Louie Lerner

Letter from Lee Hall to Mr. Louie Lerner

Correspondence

This is a letter from Lee Hall to Mr. Louie Lerner, written on April 11th. Written on stationery from the St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company, the officers of the company are listed as J.R. Massengale, the President and General Manager from St. Louis.; J. K. Barlow, Vice President from Savannah, Tennessee; G.P. Massengale, Secretary from St. Louis; and S.K. Hale, the General Freight Agent from Paducah, Kentucky.
Four steamers are listed in operation for this company - the Paducah, Robt. Rhea, Tennessee, and Alabama. According to this stationery, the Tennessee Belle left St. Louis for the Shiloh Battlefield Mondays at 5:00 P.M.
The contents of this letter, written diagonally across the page and partially covering the letterhead, are as follows,

"St. Louis, Mo. April 11th

Mr. Louie Lerner,

Dear Friend please
send my Green Coat, as it
is Cold as Hell up here
will send for the rest of my
stuff soon -

Best Wishes - Lee Hall,
c/o St. Louis and Tenn River Packet Co.
St Louis Mo.

Please Send Coat Today"

Date authentication from UW La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photographs.

Hall, Lee

A. Schwab Collection

A. Schwab Trading Co.

1923-1927

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