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James A. Butin account sheets and diary

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS B74
Overview

This collection includes a volume, Physicians' diary 1924, and 2 account sheets from 1958-1961 of Dr. James A. Butin, who had practices in Fredonia and Chanute, Kansas.

Dates: 1924, 1958-1961

James A. Healy collection of Irish-related printed materials

 Collection
Call Number: MS 380
Overview

Newspaper clippings, article reprints, photocopies of signed letters, newsletters, and other printed material and ephemera gathered by James Healy (1890-1975) regarding Irish literature, culture, and history of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Dates: approximately 1895-1960s (bulk 1960s)

James A. McHenry family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P859
Overview

In these family papers of Topeka, Kansas resident James A. McHenry, Jr. are biographical records of his great-great-grandfather J. C. Hebbard, a prominent pioneer in territorial Kansas and in early state history. A newspaper article that Hebbard wrote about the Burleigh family is also incuded. At RH MS-P P859 is a portrait of Hebbard and his wife Rosetta. Included in the papers is a published statement regarding the United Nations by McHenry's grandmother Lena Baxter Schenck.

Dates: 1894 - 1981

James Agnew Finley correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P344
Overview

A letter and photocopy from James Agnew Finley to his sister.

Dates: 1856

James and Fern Nelson-Coffin collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1501
Overview

This collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings between Sergeant James Coffin, his future wife Fern Nelson, and their families during World War II.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

James Ashford Manka papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 122
Overview

The James Ashford Manka papers are concerned primarily with Manka's peripheral activities, including politics and religion. The collection has been arranged by subject. File folders with this subject arrangement were maintained by Manka and fall into five categories and form a rough chronology of Manka's activities.

Dates: 1929 - 1970

James B. English letters

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 664
Overview

This collection contains letters from James B. English during his service to the United States when stationed in Di An and Long Binh, Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The letters are to his family and have been arranged chronologically by date sent.

Dates: 1968 - 1969

James Bibb papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1027
Overview

James W. Bibb served as the Budget Director for the state of Kansas, and later as the Business and Fiscal Affairs officer at the University of Kansas. This collection includes articles and publications regarding budgetmaking at state and university levels, some authored by Bibb; personal correspondence; and documents regarding university programming, lecture notes, speeches, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Dates: 1950 - 1987

James Campbell Cooper diary

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS C2
Overview

Diary kept in Jones County, Iowa, September 1, 1856 - September 24, 1858. The author is preoccupied with the weather and the operation of his farm.

Dates: September 1, 1856 - September 24, 1858

James Craft correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P928
Overview

Correspondence from Union soldier James Craft to his wife, Nancy Craft, during the Civil War. The letters express his longing for home, sickness in the camp, and efforts to send money to help Nancy with managing the house.

Dates: 1862 - 1880

James D. Mendenhall photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH PH 116
Overview

This collection contains photographs of the Castle Rock Badlands in Kansas.

Dates: 1900s

James Dewey family collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1575
Overview

The James Dewey family collection consists mainly of his parents' letters, papers, and photographs concerning their service in World War II. Dewey's father, Ernest Dewey, served in the army and his mother, Helen Scamell, in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). There are also two generations of family photographs from his mother’s side, including some items from his grandfather, Ralph Scamell, an architect in Topeka, Kansas.

Dates: 1893-2002 (bulk 1910-1960)

James E. Butler papers

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Call Number: RH MS 507
Overview

The James E. Butler papers are those of a native Kansan and longtime Manhattan, Kansas resident. After over 30 years of Army service, Butler was appointed to the Kansas Human Rights Commission, on which he served for over 25 years.

Dates: 1898 - 1988

James F. Woodson papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 861
Overview

The Papers of James F. Woodson are those of a native African American Kansan who was an active member of Bethel A.M.E. Church in Hutchinson, Kansas and owned the Armored Car Service.

Dates: 1980s

James family correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1320
Overview

This collection includes letters sent to and from the relatives of Wallace and Dorothy (MacIvor) James. Letters are from family members and friends on both sides of the family, particularly Dorothy's MacIvor family. The collection also includes various newspaper clippings and ephemera that had been included with the letters.

Dates: 1906-1978 (bulk 1928-1953)

James Findley Harrison diaries

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS A7
Overview

Two diaries handwritten by James Findley Harrison in the mid and late 1860s. They give descriptions of his travels and eventual settling in Linn County, Kansas.

Dates: 1866 - 1870

James Gower family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1034
Overview James H. Gower was an Iowa City, Iowa businessman and entrepreneur in Iowa's formative years of the 1840s. In 1874, he extended his business interests to Lawrence, Kansas--interests continued by his son-in-law, Justin DeWitt Bowersock. Included is an 1879 letter to Gower from his son Robert concerning his father's business affairs. The papers contain two Civil War letters from Gower's son James O. Gower of the 1st Iowa Cavalry--one in which he describes the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas...
Dates: 1860 - 1881

James Grauerholz collection of William S. Burroughs' journals and papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 319
Overview

This collection is comprised of ten manuscript journals kept by William S. Burroughs in the last year of his life, circa November 1996-July 1997, and transcriptions, photocopies, and drafts for Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, edited and with an introduction by James Grauerholz (2000).

Dates: Majority of material found within undated, 1993, 1996-2000

James H. Holmes letter

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P963
Overview This collection consists of a single letter, written June 21, 1856 & June 29, 1856 by Jas. H. Holmes to C. C. Boyles of Charleston, South Carolina. Holmes was an abolitionist who moved to territorial Kansas in part to help other free state settlers. In the letter Holmes describes his trip on a pro-slavery steamer, the Martha Jewett, traveling on the Missouri River. The collection also includes the envelope in which the letter came and a copy of a...
Dates: June 21 and 29, 1856

James Harrison Carruth correspondence

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P41
Overview

This correspondence between two botanists, Smyth, who was on the faculty of Kansas State University and later Ohio State University, and J. H. Carruth, who was on the faculty at Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, is devoted nearly exclusively to discussion of Kansas flora. The bulk of the letters are from Carruth to Smyth.

Dates: 1877 - 1892

James Henry Lane Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 28
Overview

The collection includes correspondence, notes and source material, clippings, maps, photographs, documents, and other related items, dating primarily from 1841-1923.

Dates: 1841 - 1923

James Henry letter and photograph

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P340
Overview

Letter, 1867, February 27. Brazos County, Texas. To Mr. R. H. and Susanah Miller, Lawrence, Kansas. And photograph, "Mexican Bake-Oven" by Miller.

Dates: February 27, 1867

James Howe papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 364
Overview

James P. Howe, an Associated Press foreign correspondent for 21 years, was the son of famous Kansas writer and newspaper publisher, Edgar Watson Howe, of the Atchison Globe. This collection consist of correspondence from 1956-1970, manuscripts of stories Howe was assimilatinginto a book, newspaper articles, legal papers, misc. short stories by Howe and other authors, and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1956 - 1970

James Irwin Wolfe papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 70
Overview

The James Irwin Wolfe Collection contains personal correspondence of Wolfe's, correspondence relating to the Ozark Trails Association, and some legal materials relating to his law practice. The collection also contains manuscript copies of two poems and "Why is a Bachelor?", a lecture written by Wolfe for the Ohio Chautauqua in Waverly, Kansas in 1905.

Dates: 1839 - 1937

James Joyce miscellany

 Collection
Call Number: MS 134
Overview

A collection of photostat copies compiled by James F. Spoerri of Irish-born author James Joyce letters, primarily to publisher Grant Richards; poet Ezra Pound; Irish writer James Stephens; Joyce's daughter, Lucia Joyce; Joyce's sister, Eileen Joyce Shaurek, and others. The backs of some of the photostats are annotated with a repository name. Collection also includes some newspaper clippings and reprints of prospectuses for the novel Ulysses.

Dates: 1915 - 1919

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University of Kansas 78
Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865 21
White, William Allen, 1868-1944 21
United States. Army 20
Brown, John, 1800-1859 14
Between the Covers Rare Books 13
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 13
Republican Party (Kan.) 13
Armitage, Katie 12
Lane, James Henry (James Henry), 1814-1866 12
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 12
University of Kansas. Libraries 12
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 11
Haskell Institute 10
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 10
Reid, Albert Turner, 1873-1955 10
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 9
Sumner High School (Kansas City, Kan.) 9
University of Kansas. Department of English 9
University of Kansas. Museum of Natural History 9
University of Kansas. School of Engineering 9
Wilcox, Laird M. 9
Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930 8
Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900 8
O'Hegarty, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1879-1955 8
Ellis, Ralph N. (Ralph Nicholson), 1908-1945 7
Inge, William 7
Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 7
Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 7
Wood, Frank 7
African Methodist Episcopal Church 6
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 6
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 6
Douglass Hospital (Kansas City, Kan.) 6
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 6
Kansas. Supreme Court 6
Kenneth Spencer Research Library 6
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
University of Kansas. Department of History 6
University of Kansas. Libraries. University Archives 6
University of Kansas. School of Architecture and Urban Design 6
University of Kansas. School of Fine Arts 6
University of Kansas. School of Law 6
White, William Lindsay, 1900-1973 6
Bowersock, Justin DeWitt, 1842-1922 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
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 5
Haskell Indian Junior College 5
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art 5
Johnson, Ronald, 1935-1998 5
Kansas Association of Colored Women and Girls’ Clubs 5
Kansas Committee for the Humanities 5
Kansas. Legislature 5
Kansas. Militia 5
Katzman, David M. 5
Lawrence (Kan.). City Commission 5
League of Women Voters of Kansas 5
Miller, Timothy, 1944- 5
Mrs. Hudson's Fine Books & Paper 5
New England Emigrant Aid Company 5
Populist Party (Kan.) 5
Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 5
Spencer, Kenneth Aldred, 1902-1960 5
Topeka School District (Topeka, Kan.) 5
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
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 4
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
Besinger, Curtis 4
Calvary Baptist Church (Wichita, Kan.) 4
Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951 4
Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888 4
Clarke, Sidney, 1831-1909 4
Coan, Clark 4
Democratic Party (Kan.) 4
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