%PDF-1.4 % 1 0 obj << /Title (Guide to the Bacon Family Letters) /Author (Sarah Lerner) /Subject (Collection of approximately 100 manuscript letters relating to the Bacon family of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1872-1944. Letters chiefly relate to siblings Francis Miles Bacon and Florence Mable Bacon Pierce and their time in Dakota Territory \(now South Dakota\), 1883-1893. These letters document Francis Bacon's farmwork, the domestic lives of his wife Mable "May" Louisa Sutton Bacon and sister Florence Pierce, and the general store of his brother-in-law Elmer Ellsworth Pierce, as well as death and disease, the weather, and the Panic of 1893. Other letters relate to Miles Bacon, Eliza C. Colburn Bacon, and Sarah Annie Bacon. A group of letters from 1944 are by Sarah "Sadie" Sutton to her neice Nellie May Bacon.) /Keywords (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, WA MSS S-4541) /Creator (Apache FOP 2.6) /Producer (Apache FOP Version 2.6) /CreationDate (D:20240328001528-04'00') >> endobj 2 0 obj << /N 3 /Length 3 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >> stream xgPTY{ MI$$A@wiAQdpFI AFQŀ((N#2"**K٭U[gxsOs[1M:1C H( JN !c sϑ>qyvy%. ʱlN2kwr4;- 8=%1 {iW-o!o\Vk ZkL0+ tj +|iA/o3`?(Of+yS/T7orL@ʿr` QWN = t8@W) Xo9 Ȁ