Correspondence from James Elder Gilbert [CE’78], 1881

1881 February 28 (Office of Wm. T. Gilbert Winchester Iron Foundry and Machine Shops, Winchester, Va) Gill reports he is home on a visit before a leave for “the land of Sitting Bull” [South Dakota] in about a week, he has gone West and promoted to Ass’t Eng’r on $110 per month, in Washington saw Bishop Lyman, Linderman and Reid. Asks Richard to write him about “the old boys. Do you drink beer & smoke cigarettes yet?”