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To David A. Bucher from "Em" Alexander at Polk City, Iowa telling of the emigration from Polk City to Missouri, Kansas, California, and Oregon; and Kate Blocher at Gettysburg. List of the licensed dentists in Pennsylvania in 1871 published by the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company. Letter, April 20, 1871, from "brother Jesse Bucher, Montezuma, to David A. Bucher, stating "But a word while I think of it, about that Strychnine. Be very careful with your Prof. Campbell. For although you may not have the remotest idea of poison, yet you may get a dose through Jealousy which may be caused by your success in your business. Keep a sharp lookout and I would take an early opportunity, if I were you, of totally dissolving partnership and leaving their neighborhood."

To David A. Bucher from the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company, Boston, Massachusetts; sister McNeely; and "Em" at Polk City, Iowa.

To David A. Bucher from "Em" at Polk City, Iowa; Kaate Blocher at Gettysburg, Pensylvania; Louie Kuhn at Harrisonville, Pennsylvania; and various local people abou this dentistry practice.

To David A. Bucher who is temporarily at Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia, from "Louie," "Mollie," and "the same old Coon Em." Also, a letter from David A. Bucher, now back at Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, to Mr. Young, March 6, 1872, saying he plans to return to Virginia in September. Letter, March 13, 1872, from R.S. Kuhn, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to David A. Bucher.

To David A. Bucher, Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, from Jesse and Emily Bucher at Montezuma, and "Em" at Des Moines, Iowa.

To David A. Bucher, Shade Gap, Pennsylvnaia, and in September, in Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia, from "Em," Des Moines, Iowa, "Mollie" and others.

To David A. Bucher at Bridgewater, from "Mollie" at Shade Gap, C.G. Speck, Alexandria, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania, "Emma" of Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania, "Mother," and "Sister Ella" and others.

To David A. Bucher from "Em" at Polk City, Iowa; J.T. Logan, Orbisonia; the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co.; C.G. Speck, Shippensburg, Pa., April 27, 1873, about his new position as a teacher at the Cumberland Valley Normal School; "Mollie" mentioning that Bucher was married and coming home on his wedding trip, June 10, 1873. David A. Bucher, Bridgewater, to "Dear Friends at home," June 20, 1872, about his dental practice in Bridgewater. Four letters from Bucher to "Pettie," July 28, 1873.

Letter to David A. Bucher, Bridgewater, from C. Edgar Salyards; an advertisement of C.N. Howard & Co., New York, to W. Witheson, Jr., Waynesboro, Virginia Ralph in diplomatic service, Innsbruck, Austria, to Miss Mildred Weaver, Waynesboro, Virginia, August 14, 1911, mentioning visits to the museum, the Hof Kirche, and a battlefield Ralph, Innsbruck, to Miss Mildred Weaver, August 21, 1911, telling of his visit to the battlefield of Berg Isel and of the 81st birthday celebration of the Emperor Franz Joseph Ralph, Constantinople, to Miss Mildred Weaver, Quincy, January 17, 1912, telling of attending a new opera from Vienna called Die Keusche Suzanne.

Letter, February 8, 1873, from "C.G.S.," Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, telling of the difficulties of teaching and stating, "That a Teacher should be worried by arbitrary and refractory scholars was beyond my comprehension until I found it out by sad experience."