Denver Col May 11, 1879
Dear Mary and Wife
I went to the Post Office this morning at nine o'clock. . . . The mail that comes in here from
the East makes a load of mail bags filled on a large express wagon all two horses can draw. It
comes or is due here about three and is assorted by night so evenings all go to get letters from
home. Men that do not have boxes, have to stand in line, they say sometimes 1/4 mile long. I have
seen several hundred men in a line.
Charles H. Harvey
Courtesy of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
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