Handwritten letter from David O'Donnell of the Pacific Railroad Company, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 10, June 13, 1853. Penned from the engineer's office in Jefferson County, Missouri, a lengthy and poetic letter to his wife Kate, in part: "I write to you on the day I left St. Louis a hurried line wishing you had a pleasant tip and for your safe arrival and Alfred's. By the way I don't think half so badly of that young gentleman after all. Well what a curious transformation absence causes in our natures, or is it our natures?…Now a word about myself, I must tell you that my present position is most agreeable to my taste and together with that so bright a future never presents itself to me even in my most sanguine and inexperienced days. The day has dawned at last, that day which you so often bid me hope for." In very good to fine condition, with paper loss along fold intersections on the last page.
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