Letter, R. A. Tovey to My Dear Wife Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator) Robert Atkins Tovey, Sr., wrote to his wife, Eliza (Matthew) Tovey, at their home in Albany, New York. Tovey reported that, since the freezing of the Missouri River, mail was slow, and he had lost his job making stove fixings because of the inability to obtain materials from steamboat transport. Tovey also described his friend Swifts' problems maintaining ownership of his land claim, and the prospect that he himself may participate in a new town's development. This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101549). TKO topic guide: Immigration and Early Settlement>Daily Life 1854-01-23 StillImage electronic image/tiff ku-kansascollection:1005 https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/1005 aspace_5e3f3dcb3d69c835218e18f38b2f9b8d Robert Atkins Tovey, Senior collection--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4812286722--RH MS P185 This work is free of known copyright restrictions.