Sidney Clarke letters
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P226
Overview
Sidney Clarke was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts on October 16, 1831. He was the editor and publisher of the Southbridge Press from 1853 to 1857. He emigrated to Kansas in 1858 and settled at Shawnee. He became a member of the state legislature in 1862 and was a United States Representative at Large, 1865-1871. The collection includes three letters to Charles Lanman, editor of Dictionary of the U.S. Congress (1858), and a portrait of Clarke at RH MS-P P226.
Dates
- Creation: 1865
Creator
- Clarke, Sidney, 1831-1909 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH MS P226
Physical Location
RH MS-P P226
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, Mary Bromsen, 1974
Subject
- Title
- Guide to the Sidney Clarke Collection
- Subtitle
- Sidney Clarke letters
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by lgg 1974; rev. nb 1991; revised by cl, 2010. Finding aid encoded by rw 2008, 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in<language encodinganalog="language">English.</language>
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4232081934
- Preferred citation
-
Sidney Clarke Collection, RH MS P226, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository