A group of five (5) letters featuring unusual, sexually explicit content. Letters include: 

1. Autograph letter signed by A.B. Moist to Joseph Ronk. Salem, Ohio, 26 January 1865. 3 pages, 8vo.

This letter includes explicit content regarding a woman who "cocked her leg on the Store & pulled her dress upto her knees I had A notion to ask her for A little minkin" and a dog Moist and his friends caught and "poured spirts of turpentine in his arse Lord but did he run & yell." 

2. Autograph letter signed by Soloman Yoder to Joseph Ronk. Bloomington, Illinois, 31 March 1867. 4 pages, 8vo. With original envelope with red three-cent stamp and Bloomington cancel.

This letter mentions how Yoder wishes Ronk were with him in Illinois, because although Ronk is "a little shy in a crowd at home, I think the sight of some of the Sucker Girls would do you some good in that respect." 

3. Autograph letter signed by Joseph Ronk and Eliza Moist to his cousin. Montgomery County, 8 February 1865. 3 pages, 8vo.

Ronk writes to his cousin about how "G.S. Geist killed A beef to day and he is as mean as ever but he Likes you he wants you to send him some of your big apple and A [barrel] of cider and that venison and he would like you better yet All he is doing is kill my beef." 

4. Autograph letter signed by Jacob Eliott to Joseph Moist. Milroy, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, 10 April 1867. 1 page, 8vo. 

5. Autograph letter signed by L. Lyttle to Joseph Ronk. Wooster, Ohio, 25 November 18??. 2 pages, 8vo. With original envelope with red three-cent stamp and Wooster cancel. 

6. Envelope to Joseph Ronk in Mcveytown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. With red three-cent stamp and Clayton cancel. 

Joseph Ronk (1841-1907) spent his whole life in Pennsylvania. His mother was Anna Nancy Moist, which is why that surname is seen throughout the letters. Joseph was one of seven, including a sister, Elizabeth, who was probably the "Eliza Moist" in the Montgomery County letter, choosing to take her mother's maiden name. Ronk was a farmer his whole life and eventually married a woman named Mary, with whom he had 11 children. He is buried in Hesston, Pennsylvania. 

[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]