Architectural Rooms of S. V. Shipman
Office Architect, Northern State Hospital for Insane
Rooms 62 & 64,
161 LaSalle Street
Chicago, Feby 15th 1876

My Dear Draper:

It is presumed the information about R. S. Peale & Co. reached you, and was reasonably satisfactory.

Are you ready to commence the printing of "Border Forays"? -- as desirous of seeing the work as soon as published.

I have a complete set of the "Legislative Manual" for Wis., except the last. -- desire very much to obtain that. Can you aid me in getting a copy? If so, it will be esteemed a great favor.

Our newspapers contained a Telegraphic dispatch from Madison, last night, stating that ex-Gov. Taylor had knocked down Squires and himself received a battered nose! Is it possible he is so lacking in self-respect, and a sense of the proprieters (?) of the position he lately occupied! It appears to me he has done himself great injustices.

I should have been at your place last week, to see my son Charlie, who has been ill at the University with what appeared to be an attack of Typhoid Fever; had I not been advised by Dr. Jos. Hobbins, he was much better and my presence was not necessary. He was removed from the University to Mrs. Bradley's on the Avenue, near you.

Do you know of any gentleman wanting to rent such a house as mine? The man occupying it has never paid me any rent, and I am getting tired of the arrangements.

Very Truly Your Friend,
S. V. Shipman