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D.C. Barrett correspondence with a manuscript biography of Samuel Ira Munger
Correspondence with representatives of the American Settlement Company, a New York-based joint stock company, 1854-1856; with a manuscript biography of Samuel Ira Munger, dated January 1, 1877.
Kersey Coates letter
This collection consists of a single letter, dated December 13, 1855, Cleveland, Ohio, to Hiram Hill, Esq., Philadelphia, Penn. Coates discusses his transacting business regarding real estates interests in Lawrence and Kansas City shared by Coates, Hill and others, who are unnamed. Their property in Lawrence is considered valuable and at Coates' direction was surveyed into town lots. Coates also alludes to the "trouble" in Lawrence which would probably "'fizzle out 'most ingloriously."
Letters to John B. Kellogg and his wife Anna Kellogg (Troy, N.Y.)
These sixty-two letters, written from 1857 to 1873, are to John B. Kellogg and his wife Anna of Troy, New York. Letters to John Kellogg, a cashier with Troy's Central National Bank, relate chiefly to land investments in Kansas and Nebraska. Those to his wife Anna are from family and friends.
Papers of Kansas real estate investor J. Haviland Haight
This collection contains papers concerning the 19th century real estate investments of J. Haviland Haight in the Kansas counties of Leavenworth, Douglas, and Wilson.