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- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Letter from E. S. Babcock to Messrs Armour & Co.
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V021-112
Letter from E. S. Babcock to Messrs Armour & Co.
Bound Correspondence; Volume 21, page 112
1892
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Babcock, Elijah S.
Babcock writes to Armour & Company arranging an order of meat.
Hotel del Coronado; Letters; Correspondence; Elijah S. Babcock; E. S. Babcock; Hotel industry; Meat; Purchases; Armour & Company
1500 Orange Avenue
California - Coronado
- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Dining at the Del
MS-0025
English
Letter (correspondence)
8 inches X 11 inches
No
1892
Messrs Armour & Co.
Kansas City, Mo.,
Gentlemen:
We are again in the market for meat, and will want a car about every two weeks. I enclose a list of what we want.
Will want about fifteen dozen cans of nice oysters, as mentioned, and then will want an equivalent amount of common oysters-common size. If they are any cheaper in small kegs, and will keep, send them that way, otherwise an addition fifteen dozen cans of the medium size, suitable for soup. We will also want
100 prime short loins
120 prime short ribs
4 tierces ham
2 tierces bacon
[unknown] cranberries
180 lbs. [unknown] sausage
100 [unknown] sweet bread
200 lbs beef [unknown]
2 bbls [unknown]
[unknown]
15 calves liver
600 hens
200 broilers
250 turkeys
1 bbl honey [unknown]
[unknown]
Messrs Armour & Co.
Kansas City, Mo.,
Gentlemen:
We are again in the market for meat, and will want a car about every two weeks. I enclose a list of what we want.
Will want about fifteen dozen cans of nice oysters, as mentioned, and then will want an equivalent amount of common oysters-common size. If they are any cheaper in small kegs, and will keep, send them that way, otherwise an addition fifteen dozen cans of the medium size, suitable for soup. We will also want
100 prime short loins
120 prime short ribs
4 tierces ham
2 tierces bacon
[unknown] cranberries
180 lbs. [unknown] sausage
100 [unknown] sweet bread
200 lbs beef [unknown]
2 bbls [unknown]
[unknown]
15 calves liver
600 hens
200 broilers
250 turkeys
1 bbl honey [unknown]
[unknown]
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