Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections

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A collection of unrelated legal documents from different countries and other political entities in continental Europe, dating from approximately the 1300s to the early 1800s. Documents come from Germany, Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, Iberia, Italy, France, Belgium, and unknown geographic locations.

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The collection includes information and keepsakes from Stella Aten's travels abroad as well as personal materials.

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Correspondence of Isidor Landau discussing theatre, as well as literature and social life. Includes 316 letters; 16 Manuscripts; 35 photographs; and 49 printed ephemeral items (posters, theatre-programs, etc.)

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Collection of correspondence written to Olga Novikova, a 19th century cosmopolitan Pan-Slavic lobbyist, from influential English and European members of her salon.

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The Frank Ivers Frayne collection consists of photographs of the Frayne family and other mementos of Frank's theatrical career, as well as some of Frayne's drawings, play manuscripts, accounting records, and correspondence. There are also newspaper clippings and scrapbooks about the Frayne shows and about the Frayne family more generally.

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Diary of Fred Holmes Bowersock's 1886 trip to Europe, with daily expenses. Bowersock, the son of prominent Lawrence, Kansas-based businessman Justin DeWitt Bowersock, was accompanied on this trip to Europe by University of Kansas Professor W.H. Carruth. England, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Austria were in the itinerary. Bowersock took voice, piano, and guitar lessons, visited many landmarks and art galleries, etc.

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Glenn Kappelman smuggled a camera with him when he served in the European theatre of World War II. The photographs he took document his training, time as a replacement soldier awaiting assignment, and service with the 106th Cavalry Group in France, Germany, and Austria.

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This collection consists of several loose pages providing fragmentary evidence of an individual's tour through France, Italy, and Switzerland in 1864.

Overview A two-volume journal of tours on the European continent during the 1820s and 1830s by what appears to an English gentleman. He was interested in paintings, theatre, opera, architecture, antiquities, inscriptions, and prosperity in particular and in scenery, female beauty, and politics to a lesser degree. Locations visited include Italy, Spain and Gibralter, Greece, Asia Minor (Constantinople and Belgrade of the Ottoman Empire), and, briefly, France and Switzerland. The volumes appear to...

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The Porter family papers consist of letters, literary manuscripts and personal papers of an English literary family from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century. Two-thirds of the almost 3000 items in the collection consists of the correspondence of the siblings, Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842), Jane Porter (1776-1850), Anna Maria Porter (1778-1832), and other members of the Porter family.

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Collection of letters written by Kate Riggs to members of her family while she took a tour of Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and England. Also included in the collection is a family genealogy tracing the various branches of the Riggs family into the eighteenth century.

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The collection consists of 141 letters and related items bound together in a single volume and received by Edward Weston (1703-1770, Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Province, and editor of the London Gazette) from diplomats and governmental agents on the Continent, during the Wars of the Austrian Succession. The letters mostly concern military and political matters.

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The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, photos, and other assorted memorabilia belonging to Berenice Boyd Wallace, a long time resident of Paola, Kansas. The collection spans most of Berenice Wallace's life and includes a great deal of information from her 1930 European trip as well as about life in Paola and Wallace's family.

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Benjamin Young graduated from the University of Kansas in 1908. This collection consists of a manuscript about a 1935 trip to Europe, entitled "Another Yankee's Impression of Europe."

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This collection contains the Legion of Merit Award and Citation awarded to Arnold for his conduct in the European Theatre of World War II, 1944-1945.

Overview Volume describing an individual man's travels on the European continent, including visits to the Baltic Sea coast, France, and North Italy. He describes architectural sights, social life, travel anecdotes, scenery, town life, commercial statistics and processes, the theatre and the baths that he visited, libraries, and his opinions about local women. The volume includes two itemized invoices, one in English and one in German, for shipping grain between Wismar and Liverpool. There are also...

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The earliest material in this collection are papers and correspondence of Thomas Russell Smith (1910-1996) including accounts of his travels with his family around the world in 1925-1926 and to Europe in 1929. The bulk of the collection consists of research notes, photographs, drafts, papers and correspondence about the history of cartography. There are also some notes from his course on the history of cartography.

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Journal used by William Frankland, who trained as a lawyer and served as Attorney-general in the Isle of Man and as private secretary to the secretary of state for home affairs in England. Topics covered in the journal include Frankland's attorney-general work, both in the Isle of Man and in London; continental travels, including in Belgium, Germany, and France; and his illness while in Cheltenham and Malvern, England.