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- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Letter from E. S. Babcock to Messrs Rich'd Butler
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V020-352
Letter from E. S. Babcock to Messrs Rich'd Butler & Co.
Bound Correspondence; Volume 20, page 352
11/09/1891
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Babcock, Elijah S.
Babcock writes to Richard Butler & Company regarding poultry, with a request for prices on provisions and cuts of meat.
Hotel del Coronado; Letters; Correspondence; Elijah S. Babcock; E. S. Babcock; Hotel industry; Richard Butler & Company; Butchers; Prices
1500 Orange Avenue
California - Coronado
- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Dining at the Del
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November 9, 1891
Messrs Rich'd Butler & Co.,
Kansas City, Mo.,
Gentlemen:-
In all probabaility we will send you an order for poultry. Desire, however, to fill a car. Prices quoted us by Armour & Co., Packing firm, from whom we have purchased heretofore, are not satisfactory, and I should like to have you get from some competent, reliable person who can ship us, in refrigerator cars, the material we want, quotations on the following:
100 extra short loins
125 extra short ribs
5 tierces ham
3 tierces breakfast bacon
100 extra farmers' sausages
4 half barrels pigs feet
1 half barrel hone comb tripe
2 barrels cranberries
250 turkeys drawn
400 hens drawn
200 broilers drawn
100 beef tender loins
1000 lbs pure lard
75 lbs sweet breads
15 calves' livers
1 bbl pickled beef tongues
100 lbs pork tender loins
200 lbs spring chickens drawn
2 cans Roquefort cheese
1000 lbs creamery butter.
20 dozen cans select oysters Yours truly,
E. S. Babcock.
Messrs Rich'd Butler & Co.,
Kansas City, Mo.,
Gentlemen:-
In all probabaility we will send you an order for poultry. Desire, however, to fill a car. Prices quoted us by Armour & Co., Packing firm, from whom we have purchased heretofore, are not satisfactory, and I should like to have you get from some competent, reliable person who can ship us, in refrigerator cars, the material we want, quotations on the following:
100 extra short loins
125 extra short ribs
5 tierces ham
3 tierces breakfast bacon
100 extra farmers' sausages
4 half barrels pigs feet
1 half barrel hone comb tripe
2 barrels cranberries
250 turkeys drawn
400 hens drawn
200 broilers drawn
100 beef tender loins
1000 lbs pure lard
75 lbs sweet breads
15 calves' livers
1 bbl pickled beef tongues
100 lbs pork tender loins
200 lbs spring chickens drawn
2 cans Roquefort cheese
1000 lbs creamery butter.
20 dozen cans select oysters Yours truly,
E. S. Babcock.
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