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Letter to Palmer Campbell of Hoboken on American Lead Pencil Co. letterhead from company official, Hoboken, Oct. 28, 1918.
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Letter to Palmer Campbell of Hoboken on American Lead Pencil Company letterhead from a company official (signature not legible), Hoboken, October 28, 1918. Photocopy of letter.
In a reply to a letter of the 25th from Campbell, the write sending his regrets he cannot attend a Committee on War [World War One] Work meeting due the the "enormous amount of our people being sick at the present time in nearly every department. We have over three hundred employees sick at the present time."
The illness referred to was probably the Great Influenza Epidemic of 1918.
2007.012.0017
2007.012
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Museum Purchase.
1918 - 1918
Date(s) Created: 1918 Date(s): 1918-1918
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Notes: Original is probably in collections of Hoboken Public Library. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2007-02-17