Two Letters from Railroad Baron Melvin E. Ingalls

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Ingalls was the founder of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, better known as the C&O Railroad. TLS & LS. 1pg. 8" x 10 ½". March 7 1895 and March 30, 1895. On Road. A typed letter signed "M.E. Ingalls" and addressed to Francis Hopkinson Smith, an author, artist, and engineer in New York. The letter reads: "... I am so sorry to read in the paper while I am wandering around down here in Virginia, of your great loss at Milwaukee. I hope it is not so serious as the paper states. I confess that I am a little selfish, as I fear I am mourning almost as much ove the fact that I am afraid this will prevent your agreed visit to Cincinnati, as over your loss. I hope, however, we may have this, if the pictures are destroyed... ". There is also a letter signed "M.E. Ingalls" to Smith: "Please do not forget lunch today at 1:15 at the Queen City Club. This is at the corner of 7th and Eden Sts, only two or three blocks from you hotel." The letter is in very good condition, and has a pin in the upper left corner and slightly bent lower margins, as well as the usual mailing folds and three punch holes to the right of the text

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