HISTORIC 1878-1890 Letter Archive Lot Cross-Hatch 1890 Russian Flu Vassar NYC
This historical ephemera lot consists of 8 original manuscript pages spanning a 12-year window (1878–1890). It documents the correspondences of Laura Henderson from East Park, alongside a separate secret marriage letter from Jersey City Heights and an early 1870s postal cover.The archive includes preservation of unique cross-hatched handwriting and its rare firsthand accounts of key late-Victorian social, educational, and medical milestone. The writer reveals a secret, sudden marriage that changed both her name and address. A high-value letter balancing solemn family news with medical breakthroughs, ahistorically significant primary source in the collection. Laura documents the devastating local arrival of the global 1889–1890 Influenza Pandemic (The Russian Flu).
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