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  <dc:title>Letter from 'Tom' [Thomas Edward Thorpe], on the train between Ogden, Utah and Green River, Wyoming, to 'Dear Pern' [Caroline Emma Thorpe]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Describes the end of his stay in Salt Lake City, with a visit to [William] 'Bill' Jennings, originally from Warwickshire and now 'one of Utah's merchant princes'. States that Jennings was formerly a polygamist. Also notes a tour of the University of Deseret [University of Utah] and a visit to the local playhouse to see a version of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. Contrasts with the Denver Theatre, where one of the leading ladies 'seated herself on Schuster's knee &amp; guessed she'd take an iced lemonade &amp; a cigar'. Descriptions of Ogden and Green River and his future itinery via Grand Island in Nebraska, Omaha, Chicago and Pittsburgh to the East.   </dc:description>
  <dc:date>25 August 1878</dc:date>
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