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Call Number: PP 53
Contains 5 Results:
Addressed to Mrs. A.S. Frost from Ota Nicholson, Kate Nicholson Blackmar's sister
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Addressed to Mrs. Jane A. Mandell of Barre, Massachusetts from Dr. Charles Robinson, October 2, 1843
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October 2, 1843
Addressed to former Kansas Governor, Dr. Charles L. Robinson, Lawrence Kansas from Amos A. Lawrence (namesake of Lawrence KS), on the Border War in Kansas before Kansas statehood, mentions John Brown and his misdeeds while in Kansas Territory, July 12, 1872
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July 12, 1872
Letter to former Kansas Governor, Dr. Charles L. Robinson, Lawrence, Kansas from Amos A. Lawrence, Mentions KU Chancellor James Marvin, and that Lawrence cannot return to Kansas for the founder's day reunion, July 26, 1877
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July 26, 1877
Addressed to former Kansas Governor, Dr. Charles L. Robinson, Lawrence, Kansas from Amos A. Lawrence, discusses the Negro exodus out of the South and the designs of schemes to promote it, and conversely, to halt it. Mentions the use of a steamboat up the Mississippi to ferry African Americans out of the South following Reconstruction, and wants to know if Kansas has any jobs for these migrants. Mentions Mass. Governor Thomas Talbot, General Conway, and Rev. Henry McNeal Turner, June 9, 1879
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June 9, 1879