Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck, May 11, 1904 Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917 Johnston, Jeremy Christianson, Frank Seefeldt, Douglas, 1964- Supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a program of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources. 2013 William F. Cody Archive University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917 Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck May 11, 1904 1 page University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Buffalo Bill: Letters to George T. Beck, 1895-1910 (Acc. #9972) ah031468

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Texts Correspondence Buffalo Bill's Wyoming Beck, George Washington Thornton, 1856-1943 Weakly, Laura K. Initial encoding Christianson, Johnston, Houze, Clark Proofreading Boyce, Gary Transcription Adams, Deb Transcription Buffalo Bill's Wild WestPahaska Tepee.Touring Great Britain. Oswestry1 May. 11th1904 My Dear Beck

I hope this may find you and yours well and happy. I am in excellent health— And business splendid. I wrote you from N. Y. So did Mr Clark2 What the Hearst Estate3 would do—

Please let me hear from you on the subject.

Hope there wontwon't be so much trouble about our ditch this summer.

Yours truly W. F. Cody Note 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West performed in Oswestry, England, on May 11, 1904. Note 2: "Mr Clark" is Edward Hardy Clark (1864-1945), the financial manager for Phoebe Hearst. Note 3: The Hearst Estate provided an indemnity bond of $30,000 at 7.5% interest for the Shoshone Irrigation Company project.