Postcard Ordering Sleigh Runners
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Title
Postcard Ordering Sleigh Runners
Subject
Saums Hardware (Edinburg Va)
Hawkins, Joseph
Hawkinstown (Va)
Shops and Stores-Virginia-Edinburg
Description
Postcard mailed to Saum & Brothers Store in Edinburg Virginia ordering a pair of sleigh runners. The order was placed by Joseph Hawkins of Hawkinstown Virginia.
Creator
Joseph Hawkins
Source
Folder 1: Postcards addressed to Saum's Store Requesting Sleigh Runners, 1880-1884, Saum Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
December 27, 1884
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Language
English
Identifier
18-0807-012
18-0807-013
Text
Hawkinstown, Va
Dec 27/84
Mr Saum,
If you have sleigh runners on hand please send me a pair to Mt Jackson (for 1 Horse sleigh). Also enough iron for tire for same. Cannot get tire here. If you have _ _ _ let me know. I would buy that I have not money at present but will settle soon. Let me know at once. Do not send unless you can send tomorrow or next day.
-Jos. Hawkins
Dec 27/84
Mr Saum,
If you have sleigh runners on hand please send me a pair to Mt Jackson (for 1 Horse sleigh). Also enough iron for tire for same. Cannot get tire here. If you have _ _ _ let me know. I would buy that I have not money at present but will settle soon. Let me know at once. Do not send unless you can send tomorrow or next day.
-Jos. Hawkins
Original Format
Postcard
Citationzork
Joseph Hawkins, “Postcard Ordering Sleigh Runners,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/11727.
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