how much she gave mrs. harvey, how much he paid the washwoman and spent to his deadbeat sister in st. louis who could never pay her rent. it took years to figure not who the people were, where the money was coming, where they mattered. that is what doing this kind of biography is about. and this is the first of many letters that were recovered by the family that fred harvey wrote home. fred harvey spend an enormous amount of life on the road. he was a real road warrior. he was an agent for the real world for almost 20 years before he started the restaurant empire that you all know him for. so his whole life was letters home and often letters home-schooled and his wife and kids that the head and send him any letters because, you know, in this e-mail society we know how important it is to get mailed back. fred was assessed with getting kneal back. this is the earliest letter we have of his and 1869. .. children that everyone thought she had had come in at the white house. wife died in childbirth and sally was the wa