V021-132

Letter from E. S. Babcock to C. L. Pullman, Esq.

Bound Correspondence; Volume 21, page 132

01/05/1892

Babcock, Elijah S.

 

Babcock writes to Potter at the Westminster Hotel in Los Angeles inquiring about affordable mutton and butchers.

Babcock writes to Pullman of the Pullman Palace Car Company to inquire about Spreckels.

Hotel del Coronado; Letters; Correspondence; Elijah S. Babcock; E. S. Babcock; Hotel industry; Mutton; Suppliers; Butchers; Pricing; Inflation; Westminster Hotel; Mr. Spreckels; Pullman Palace Car Company; C. L. Pullman

1500 Orange Avenue

California - Coronado

 

Dining at the Del

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Milo M. Potter, Esq., Manager, WESTMINSTER,
Los Angeles, Calif.,

Dear Mr Potter:-
Our butcher has raised the rate on mutton to ten cents by the carcass, or 17 ½ cents double rack. If you are buying any cheaper in Los Angeles, and it will not affect your price any, would you mind giving me the name of a butcher from whom we can get some meat during the next thirty days?

Yours truly,
E. S. Babcock

January 5, 1892 C. L. Pullman, Esq.,
C. A. Pullman Palace Car Co.,
Chicago, Ill.,
Dear Sir:-
I have your favor of the 31st ult.

I do not know what Mr Spreckels will want any thing on the [unknown]

 

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