News from Home 5

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In Elizabeth Sibley's final surviving letter during this trip, she notes that she has received Emily's letters from 1/4/1893 and 1/13/1893, the latter having been received first.  She notes that Rev. Algernon Sydney Crapsey is going on a mission speaking tour to Omaha, Nebraska during Lent. Rufus Sibley is "all engaged over building the new Store, the old one on the corner of Main, is to be torn down, a new one  put up in place of it twelve stories high [Rochester's Granite Building]." She promises J.G. that "he shall have the promised Rifle when he returns, he does remarkably well in bringing down the birds." Click on the letter to view transcription.