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Correspondence of Lord Cottington

 Collection
Call Number: MS 65
Overview

Friendly notes, giving news of how the embassy by Hyde and himself from Charles II to the King of Spain is progressing.

Dates: January 3, 1650-May 14, 1652

Correspondence of Olga Novikova

 Collection
Call Number: MS 30
Overview

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

Dates: 1862-1910, undated

Correspondence of Robert Graves and Laura Riding

 Collection
Call Number: MS 100
Overview This is a group of several separately acquired collections of letters (a total of 62 letters) by the writers Robert Graves (1895-1985) and Laura Riding (1901-1991), largely to their literary agents. The correspondents include: Harold Monro (1879-1932), Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931) [Robert Graves' father], Pinker (of James B. Pinker & Son, literary agents), Wicken (of James B. Pinker & Son), James Burton Pond (1890?-1961), lecture agent, Thomas R. Buckman, librarian. Most of the...
Dates: 1916 - 1966

Correspondence of Sean O'Casey

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Call Number: MS P237
Overview

Letters from 20th century Irish dramatist and memoirist Sean O'Casey, as well as letters from his wife Eileen to an American collector and a letter from Arthur Sinclair to Thomas King Moylan.

Dates: 1925 - 1959

Correspondence of Sir William Lee

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Call Number: MS 90
Overview This collection of approximately 110 letters consists mainly of letters written and received by Sir William Lee of Hartwell (Buckinghamshire), 4th baronet (1726-1799). A small number of letters received by other family members and some related materials are also present. The correspondence covers topics such as county and national politics (elections); family; social and financial relationships; and estate management (agriculture, building, tithes and enclosures). Correspondents include...
Dates: 1755 - 1803

Correspondence of the Federal Affairs Advisory Committee

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Call Number: RH MS P294
Overview

Federal Affairs Advisory Committee. Correspondence, minutes, etc., concerning public opinion polling. 1947-1948.

Dates: 1947 - 1948

Correspondence of the Poetry Bookshop

 Collection
Call Number: MS 177
Overview

Collection of 68 letters, postcards, telegrams, by literary and artistic figures, all addressed to Poetry Bookshop, 38 Great Russell Street, London, regarding its grand reopening at its new location.

Dates: September-October 1926

Correspondence of Thomas James Wise

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P354
Overview

Two pieces of correspondence from bibliophile and notorious English forger Thomas James Wise (1857-1937). Consists of a 1930 letter written by him to "My dear Robert," and a 1931 postcard to W.R. Smythe in Dublin, Ireland, both sent from Hampstead, England.

Dates: 1930 - 1931

Correspondence, poems and reviews by and about Barbara Howes

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Call Number: MS P650
Overview This collection of manuscript and printed material relating to the American poet and editor, Barbara Howes (1914-1996), was made by Stewart P. Park (died 1976) and his wife, Evelyn, of Mamaroneck, New York. They were friends who visited North Pownal, Vermont, where Howes lived. The correspondence consists of one letter and three postcards from Barbara Howes. Also present are 15 poems sent by her as Christmas cards (1958-1974) and poems written for Petie and Frank Palmer (1964) and Helen and...
Dates: 1958 - 1974

Correspondence regarding a proposed auxiliary police force in Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P262
Overview

Collection of correspondence and clippings related to a proposed auxiliary police force in Lawrence, Kansas, and the Lawrence Support Your Local Police Committee.

Dates: 1970 - 1971

Correspondence regarding Edgar Watson Howe

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Call Number: RH MS 937
Overview

Ruth Mangelsdorf generated this collection of correspondence regarding Edgar Watson Howe, a reporter for the Atchison, Kansas Globe newspaper who became the owner of newspapers in Falls City, Nebraska, through the course of conducting dissertation research.

Dates: 1947 - 1949

Correspondence to Charles Lanman and photographic likeness of Parrott

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P228
Overview

Autobiographical letter from Marcus Junius Parrott to Charles Lanman in response to a circular requesting biographical information prepared by Lanman as he compiled data for the Dictionary of the U.S. Congress, 1851. Also included in the collection is a photographic likeness of Parrott on paper.

Dates: 1858

Correspondence with Mendy Weisgal

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Call Number: RH MS 1304
Overview

This collection includes letters from William Inge to Mendy Weisgal written between 1955 and 1967, as well as related newspaper clippings and correspondence. Weisgal, who also was known professionally as Michael Wager, was an actor and writer who was Inge's friend and collaborator.

Dates: 1955 - 1967

Correspondence with R. Baird Shuman

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Call Number: RH MS P915
Overview

R. Baird Shuman is an author and biographer who wrote a biography of William Inge, and corresponded with him throughout the 1960s. After Inge's suicide in 1973, Shuman corresponded with Inge's sister, Helene Inge Connell. The collection includes letters from Inge to Shuman, one letter from Shuman to Inge, and two letters from Inge's sister to Shuman.

Dates: 1963 - 1974

Cottonwood Falls, Kansas eighth grade class snapshots

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2836
Overview

This collection contains a scrapbook of black and white snapshot photographs of the Cottonwood Falls, Kansas school classes in 1918. Images include class photos, a baseball team and orchestra ensemble, individual photos of students and teachers, and snapshots of students playing together and working in classrooms. In the back of the scrapbook a copy of the May 1918 City School Monitor has been inserted.

Dates: 1918

Council on Community Services of Douglas County records

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Call Number: RH MS 1041
Overview This collection of records contains materials from the Council on Community Services of Douglas County. The Council was formed in 1981 to facilitate matching current and emerging human needs with available resources. The council was a group of individuals and organizations with interests in developing community services in Douglas county. The records in this collection are materials, meeting minutes, ledgers, financial documents and grant information collected in completing of the above...
Dates: 1981-1985

Counter culture poster collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS R23
Overview

Miscellaneous collection of counter culture, youth culture, drug culture, and Vietnamese conflict-related posters primarily from the mid- to late 1960s, but probably including some of early 1970s vintage. The collection is divided into 4 categories: Prominent individuals, Vietnam and related, Psychedelic and drug, and Counter culture and miscellaneous.

Dates: approximately 1960s-early 1970s

Counterfeit paper currency

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH VLT Misc 4
Overview

Collection of paper currency of varying denominations, dating circa 1836-1863. Counterfeit paper currency is in the amounts as follows: 10¢, $2.00, $3.00 (2), $5.00.

Dates: approximately 1836-1863

Countryside Garden Club records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 643
Overview

The Countryside Garden Club held its first organizational meeting in 1953 with the intent of bringing together women in Lawrence, Kansas, who were interested in gardening. The collection consists of the meeting minutes, photographs, and other official records of the Club, as well as some information related to its members.

Dates: 1953-2003

Court of Chancery decrees

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Call Number: MS 135
Overview

Collection of separately written official copies of Court of Chancery decrees from Great Britain. The cases, collected by Sir Thomas Phillipps, were apparently chosen to illustrate some point of law or procedure, usually concerned with wills or mortgages.

Dates: 1733 - 1783

Courtship of the Ruff watercolor

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS Q107
Overview

This collection consists of one watercolor painting of multiple birds called ruffs. The painting was created by M.H.A. Staring (1897-1929), a Dutch artist and ornithologist whose specialty was depicting zoological subjects.

Dates: 1923

Cowherd family papers

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Call Number: RH MS 1092
Overview

The Cowherd family papers are those of a Monroe County, Missouri farming family during the mid-1800s to early 1900s who were slaveholders.

Dates: 1840 - 1914

Craig Crosswhite papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1447
Overview This collection consists of research papers written by Craig Crosswhite regarding various topics in Kansas history. The papers were written for coursework Crosswhite was taking as a graduate student at the University of Kansas, commissioned work on behalf of others, and for other projects Crosswhite was developing. Papers include an account of Oscar Wilde's trip to Lawrence, KS on April 21, 1882, and correspondence and copies of newspaper articles related to the report. Also includes...
Dates: 1976 - 1982

Creed Shepard collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1598
Overview The Creed Shepard collection consists of papers and fliers from grassroots organizations in the Lawrence, Kansas area concerned with anarchy and cooperative, sustainable living, as well as universal health care, anti-globalization, and the anti-war movement. Papers from national conferences that Shepard attended about organizing, sustainability, and independent media are also included, along with materials from national organizations. There are also examples of independent media including...
Dates: 1992-20[22]

Creek Nation school catalogue page

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P954
Overview Single printed title page from the Catalogue of the Officers and Pupils of Tullahassee Manual Labor School, a boarding school formed in 1850 for the education of Creek Native Americans in Creek Nation, located in Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). After a fire, the school was reopened in 1883 as the Tullahassee Manual Labor School, with the cooperation of the Baptist Home Mission Society. The school remained open until 1924, the last ten years of its existence serving as a school for African...
Dates: 1871

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
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Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900 8
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Ellis, Ralph N. (Ralph Nicholson), 1908-1945 7
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Wood, Frank 7
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Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 6
Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission 6
Otto, David Arthur, 1934- 6
Pennell, Joseph Judd, 1866-1922 6
Sturgeon, Theodore 6
Trinity Episcopal Church (Lawrence, Kan.) 6
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University of Kansas. School of Architecture and Urban Design 6
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White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973 6
Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 5
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 5
Clark family 5
Docking, Robert Blackwell, 1925-1983 5
Douglas County Historical Society (Douglas County, Kan.) 5
Eigner , Larry, 1927-1996 5
Freemasons. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Kansas 5
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Haskell Indian Junior College 5
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Johnson, Ronald, 1935-1998 5
Kansas Association of Colored Women and Girls’ Clubs 5
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Miller, Timothy, 1944- 5
Mrs. Hudson's Fine Books & Paper 5
New England Emigrant Aid Company 5
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Spencer, Kenneth Aldred, 1902-1960 5
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United States. Congress. House 5
University of Kansas. Department of Music 5
University of Kansas. William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information 5
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Apfelbaum, Charles 4
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company 4
Bailey, E. H. S. (Edgar Henry Summerfield), 1848-1933 4
Beal, George Malcolm, 1897- 4
Benjamin, David, 1963- 4
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Calvary Baptist Church (Wichita, Kan.) 4
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
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Gould, John, 1804-1881 4
Guttridge, G. H. (George Herbert), 1898- 4
Hoad, William C. (William Christian), 1874- 4
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 4
Irvin, S. M. (Samuel Mcleary), 1812- 4
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