ABSTRACT
Ann and Alfred Jones’s letters of 1864 and 1880 are concerned with inheritances in Shropshire and the attempt to establish their right to their grandfather’s land. The couple were in St Louis and evidently prospering: ‘we hair making a cumfortable living in farming bisness it is a plesant country and people hair in general kind’. The 1880 letters show Jones pursuing his claim on land in England and writing to his lawyer to investigate. The final letter is a reply to the same lawyer, offering more details on his relations and his claim.
