L.P. Grant Letters The following letters come from two journals that Grant kept at his railroad office. Somehow they passed down to his grand-daughter, Gladys Grant Long, who kept them on a high shelf and never looked at them. On her death, the journals passed to her own grand-daughter Ginny, who kept them safely but was too busy to do more than scan them. Ginny lent the journals to a Grant Park neighborhood group who were conducting research for an Atlanta Preservation Center walking tour. It was a great and exciting privilege to be probably the first person to read most of these letters since L.P. Grant wrote them between 1868 and 1881.
The letters are in his own hand-writing but he obviously did not copy every one of them into the journals from the originals. He was far too busy a man for that! We think he either used a pantograph, an ancient device, which traces a copy of whatever you write. Alternatively he may have used an early version of carbon paper. The original journals are now at the Atlanta History Center.
-- Carol Fisk (the LP Grant letters were transcribed by Carol in 2001)
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