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Ruth M. Deviney's soldier diary

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS P642
Overview

Ruth M. Deviney's soldier's diary with entries from May 1941 - October 1945.

Dates: May 1941-October 1945

Ruttilio Scotti manuscript

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E96
Overview

An unpublished historical work on one of the great monastaries of the Western Church, Subiaco, established by St. Benedict, and its surrounding territories in central Italy.

Dates: 1615

S. F. Neely letters to E. L. Carney

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P811
Overview

These two letters from U.S. Marshall S. F. Neely, District of Kansas, are written to Leavenworth, Kansas attorney Edwin L. Carney, a son of second Governor of Kansas Thomas Carney. Neely's letters to Carney seek payment of costs billed to him for a Wyandotte County, Kansas citation issued in the case of the United States vs. The Black Bob Band of Shawnee Indians.

Dates: 1896 - 1897

S.A. Benedict papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1048
Overview

S.A. Benedict was a farmer in the Reno (Leavenworth County), Kansas area during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This collection contains 2 accounting books, a journal, correspondence of the Benedict family, and deeds.

Dates: 1863 - 1951

S.A. Wood correspondence

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P183
Overview

Correspondence of S.A. Wood, a lawyer in Lawrence, Kansas, in which he attempts to trace people for repayment of loans he had made using U.S. Savings Bonds as collateral

Dates: 1945 - 1951

Saint Sauveur book of medical and technological receipts

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS D156
Overview

Primarily medical receipts (informal directions for compounding and administering folk-remedies); some horse-medicine; also directions for making pigments, for fishing, for removing ink-spots, for secret writing, for catching birds, for making varnish, for mending china...

Dates: approximately 1739

Sall Curry's notebook

 Collection
Call Number: MS C314
Overview

Scrapbook/commonplace book, labeled "Album" on the cover and kept by Sall Curry, an Irish nun who traveled to Poland and Russia around the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. Includes verse and prose written and copied by Curry, as well as notes and autographs from friends and family. The volume also contains some pressed flowers and plants, drawings, and watercolors.

Dates: approximately 1896-1904

Sally M. Casad collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P883
Overview

Photocopy of Sally M. Casad's short collection of stories entitled, "Champs!: the NCAA Basketball Playoffs of 1988." The paper covers the Elite Eight, Final Four, and Championship games of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's tournament. The University of Kansas won the tournament at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.

Dates: 1989

Sally Six Hersh papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 573
Overview

This collection consists of materials from Sally Six Hersh's drama studies and career teaching drama in Lawrence, Kansas, working with elementary and junior high students. It includes scripts, photographs of productions, reference and research material, and other related materials used by Hersh for teaching drama and developing curriculum.

Dates: 1955 - 1995

Salmon Child letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P325
Overview

Letter from Salmon Child to his children, beginning "I, your aged and troublesome Parent...."

Dates: April 2, 1840 Gorham, Connecticut

Sam Anderson World War II ration books

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P957
Overview

The collection consists of two ration books used by Sam Follett Anderson of Lawrence, Kansas during World War II.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

Samuel Brooks Anderson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS G44
Overview

This collection consists of account books, correspondence, lecture notes, and a painting that belonged to physician Samuel Brooks Anderson, who moved to Lawrence, Kansas soon after Kansas became a state.

Dates: 1825 - 1907

Samuel Brown letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P667
Overview

Samuel Brown (1817-1856) was a Scottish chemist and author of Portobello (now a suburb of Edinburgh). In this letter to an unidentified friend, he writes about the people with whom he dined at a dinner party, including his dinner partner, Miss Helena Faucit (1814-1898), an English actress.

Dates: February 28, [1843]

Samuel C. Jackson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 557
Overview

Samuel C. Jackson was a lawyer and active civil rights leader, serving many organizations as an advocate throughout his lifetime. The Samuel C. Jackson papers largely consist of speeches and articles given by Jackson as a representative of various organizations, as well as awards and certificates received by Jackson for his many years of service.

Dates: 1947 - 1994

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P121
Overview The letters were written during the time Pomeroy was senator and deal with the following topics: biographical information for the Congressional Directory; requests for publications to be sent to individuals; and a reference letter. The majority of the letters concern moving the U.S. Land Office from Independence, Kansas, to Neodesha. In later correspondence he refutes charges by D. R. Anthony that he bought votes or received compensation from Neodesha and resents the committee set up to...
Dates: 1861 - 1873

Samuel Emmons Hudson diary

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS A36
Overview

This diary, one of four extant, is incomplete. In its entries Hudson notes weather conditions, his daily activities and those of his family. Farming activities and social occasions are consistently detailed.

Dates: January 1, 1881 - September 17, 1881

Samuel Hunt Davis autobiography

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P16
Overview

Notebook containing an autobiography, dated July 2, 1931, with a biographical sketch of Homer Winslow Davis, an autobiographical sketch of Emma Stubbs Davis, and a history of the Hesper monthly meeting dating from circa 1955. Clippings (including obituaries), annotated map of New Orleans and vicinity, a family genealogy, and two pieces of correspondence accompany manuscript.

Dates: July 2, 1931; approximately 1955

Samuel Jay Crumbine letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P12
Overview

Letter, "To Violet and Warren," dated Jackson Heights, N. Y., December 14, 1946. The letter comments extensively on the authenticity of Wright's book. There is also autobiographical information about Crumbine, who practiced medicine in Dodge City from the early 1880s to 1904.

Dates: December 14, 1946

Samuel Johnson Crawford papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 31
Overview

The papers in the collection concern negotiations for settlement of a land sale in Oklahoma Territory for the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Crawford, along with Matt G. Reynolds of St. Louis, D. B. Dyer of Kansas City, and John D. Miles of Oklahoma, served as attorneys employed to prosecute a suit for the land by the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The correspondence is primarily between the four attorneys concerning their actions on behalf of the two tribes.

Dates: 1889 - 1892

Samuel Knox business papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 22
Overview The correspondence in this collection is primarily concerned with land sales, in Kansas, Nebraska and other states, financial matters, excursion trips to the Western states, and immigration to Kansas and Nebraska. Knox's legal papers are also included. Among Knox's correspondents were soldiers fighting in the Civil War in Kansas and Illinois volunteer regiments, his family (including a family history), requests for information regarding land in Kansas and Nebraska, and responses to Knox's...
Dates: 1852 - 1888

Samuel Lyle Adair papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P1
Overview

Account of the life of Frederick Brown by Samuel Lyle Adair and printed endorsement voucher, dated Leavenworth, KS.

Dates: 1863, ca. 1857

Samuel M. Strickler collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P157
Overview

Samuel Strickler was Brigadier General of the Kansas Militia in the early 1860s during the United States' Civil War. Most of this collection pertains to organizing militia companies in Kansas; there are also two photographs in the collection.

Dates: 1863, circa 1860s-1870s

Samuel N. Simpson letter

 Collection
Call Number: RH VLT MS P16
Overview

A letter from S.N. (Samuel Newell) Simpson of Lawrence, Kansas to John Brown in Boston Massachusetts dated November 18, 1859, two weeks before Brown’s execution. Simpson sent a circular about the establishment of Monumental College in Kansas and a letter of explanation. The circular is the first edition, and second known copy of the solicitation for funds to establish a college in Kansas.

Dates: 1859

Samuel Newitt Wood papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P182
Overview

Correspondence, statements concerning his murder, and clippings.

Dates: 1862 - 1892

Samuel Ryan Curtis letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS P8
Overview

Letter to Quarter Master General M. C. Meigs. Dated Ft. Leavenworth, Dept. of Kansas, June 16, 1864.

Dates: June 16, 1864

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Clark family 5
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Douglas County Historical Society (Douglas County, Kan.) 5
Eigner , Larry, 1927-1996 5
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Haskell Indian Junior College 5
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Mrs. Hudson's Fine Books & Paper 5
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Spencer, Kenneth Aldred, 1902-1960 5
Topeka School District (Topeka, Kan.) 5
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University of Kansas. Department of Music 5
University of Kansas. William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information 5
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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company 4
Bailey, E. H. S. (Edgar Henry Summerfield), 1848-1933 4
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Benjamin, David, 1963- 4
Besinger, Curtis 4
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Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951 4
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Clarke, Sidney, 1831-1909 4
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Domer, Dennis, 1944- 4
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 4
Eldridge House (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
Enslinger, Dennis 4
Friends in Council (Lawrence, Kan.) 4
Funston, Frederick, 1865-1917 4
Gould, John, 1804-1881 4
Grauerholz, James 4
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4