Letter addressed to Charles Kellogg, Topeka
Overview
The letter concerns personal real estate transactions and troubles along the Missouri-Kansas border between free state and pro-slavery partisans. Letter is written on back page of "Appeal of Kansas to the voters of the Free States" dated Topeka, July 4, 1856. This printed appeal concerns the contested election of 1856 and an appeal for Kansas to join the Union as a free state.
Dates
- Creation: August 6, 1856
Creator
- Sabin, I. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
1 folder : Holograph ; approximately 25 x 39 fold, to 25 x 20 cm.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH MS P73
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift. Mrs. Katharine Kellogg Hunt.
Separated Materials
Transcript of the letter is filed in the Accessions File.
Subject
- Kellogg, Charles, active 1856 (Person)
- United States. Congress. House -- Contested elections (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the I. Sabin Collection
- Subtitle
- Letter addressed to Charles Kellogg, Topeka
- Author
- kpz 16 November 1972; mg 2004
- Date
- 2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/8566552951
- Preferred citation
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I. Sabin Collection, Kansas Collection, RH MS P73, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository