Southern Appalachian Digital Collections

Western Carolina University (20) View all

George MacReynolds to Horace Kephart, June 12, 1916, page 1

  • wcu_kephart-1729.jpg
1 / 2
Item
  • The Daily Democrat Doylestown Democrat Established 1890 Weekly Established 1816 $2.50; FOR: THE : YEAR $1.00 FOR: THE: YEAR Hon. Horace Kephart Doylestown, Pa., June 12. 1916 New York City, N.Y. : - Dear Sir: - In the “Department of Local History” of The Democrat we are publishing material relating to early emigration from Pennsylvania to the South and West. We have just published Daniel Boone’s “Adventures,” “written by Himself’,” taken from an old volume in my library entitled “History of the Discovery of America,” etc., published in 1812. Some time ago we also published a short sketch of the Boone family, which was resident here before Daniel was born. My object in writing to you is to ask your consent to republish a pamphlet embodying an address on “Pennsylvania’s Part in Winning the West,” which you delivered before the Pennsylvania Society of St. Louis, December 12, 1901. This, in my opinion, is a most excellent pro-
Object