Forms: Correspondence -- autographed letter signed; Persons: David Ruffner to "Son" [Henry Ruffner] (mentioned: Franklin Reynolds and Richard Putney [inspectors], Mr. Dearing [inventor], William Tompkins, John D. Lewis and Lewis Ruffner [assisting in installing new manufacturing process], Mr. Brown, school teacher [church?], Moses M. Fuqua [Hannibal, MO], Clavin C. Fuqua [Athens, MO], Mr. and Mrs. William and Alfred Whitteker, William Cunningham, Mr. Honeyman, Mr. Robinson, James Putney, Ann Brombach, Magdalene Reid); Places: Kanawha Salines, VA [now WV] to Lexington, VA, 1841

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Subjects: Family affairs (health, comment and advice regarding disagreement between Henry and Lewis Ruffner); navigation of the Kanawha River (water level, steamboats); health in the Kanawha area (deaths from scarlet fever); the salt industry (shipping, market, quality of salt, inspectors, new furnaces, "white salt," invention of "L"[?], or "C"[?] machine, new manufacturing process described); churches (new members of Presbyterian church, attendance, minister)

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