Letters

Thanks for the hospitality

To the staff:

Thank you so much for your fine hospitality during my visit to your offices on Tuesday after the dedication of the Lincoln Museum. I appreciate the special attention given to my new ISHS membership. I look forward to receiving your publications and related materials and many years of association with the Society. The people that I met made me feel very welcomed.

Again, thank you for your kindness during my visit. I look forward to visiting with you again. I will be calling your office soon to order my Hesler print.

Best Regards,
Jim Johnson   
         Cedartown, Georgia

Fulton County cabinet cards

To the staff:

This is in regard to your January/February issue of Illinois Heritage. What a surprise to find a local picture on the back when I got my mail! I am enclosing two items that I had placed in The Fulton Democrat, a Lewistown newspaper. Surely you placed the pictures there so that I would find them immediately and then do something about it, and I did.

Now we have questions. How and why did the portrait cards get to Minnesota? What do we do to try to get them back to Lewistown? I thought I would ask you because you get full credit for making it known locally. Whatever I should do next or can do, I am glad to be of help to see this project through.

Marjorie R. Bordner
Past President         
                  Fulton County Historical Society

Editor's note: Thanks for your letter. The cabinet cards were donated to the Illinois State Historical Society by the Waseca County Historical Society in Minnesota. The photographs included several portaits from a studio in Freeport, Illinois, as well. The images might have been purchased in an estate sale; we are not sure. The Society would be happy to return the cabinet cards to Fulton County, provided there is an appropriate repository. We look forward to hearing from you.

Boatload of orphans

To the editor:

It was interesting to revisit the story of Rev. Springer and the orphans. How strange that he did not provide better for them!

Idabel Evans
Hillsboro     

Editor's note: Thanks for writing. Rev. Springer's tireless efforts to aid the orphans of war-torn Arkansas were not in vain. Though the orphans faced hardships and loss in central Illinois, the efforts to ameliorate their suffering were, at the time, the best a divided society had to offer. As a descendant of one of the orphans, I am gratefid to have a story to tell. Many did not.

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