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  • Title: Letter from William F. Cody to Michael Gardner
  • Date: October 5, 1878
  • Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
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Howell Cobb. C.D.M. Cobb. Purcell House, Cobb Brothers, Prop's

Wilmington, N.C. Oct 5th 1878 My Dear Boy Michael

I know you are anxious to hear from me. I would have wrote you before but have been so undicided to know what I am going to do my self. theYellow Fever is so bad I may yet come back to Baltimore and if I do then I will arrange to send you away. if not I will write you in a few days what to do.

I hope you are all O.K. Write me to. Charleston. S. C. on receipt of this. Give my kind   regards to Your Father Mother & the family

And beleive me your friend W. F. Cody

Note: In Baltimore September 10, 1878, during a performance of the play May Cody, or Lost and Won, audience guest Michael Gardner was accidentally shot by WFC (supposedly with a pistol loaded with blanks).

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