Item No. 94: Family Correspondence -- PLATTENBURG, Ellen S. Autograph letter signed to Anna R. Meek, dated Canton 3 November 1856. 6pp. "Politics are the topic of conversation everywhere, the almost all absorbing theme and mass meetings all the go. The great Freemont meeting of Tuesday passed of the occasion excepting that the wind was a little cutting to the white dressed Ladies in the boats…. Platt will not be here to give his note that is too bad…." Tells of a neighbor much impressed that she is Philip Doddridge's daughter., 1856