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Call Number: RH MS P901

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Letter from Josiah Miller (Wyandot Nation, Kansas Territory) to his father and mother, September 10, 1854

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Call Number: RH MS P901
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a handwritten letter, dated September 10, 1854, from free-state newspaperman Josiah Miller (Kansas Territory) to his parents in South Carolina. The unsigned letter, described by Miller as his first to them from Kansas Territory, details his plans for fighting slavery in the territory through his newspaper (the Kansas Free State, which on January 5, 1855 became the first newspaper published at Lawrence). In this unsigned letter, Miller...
Dates: September 10, 1854