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Madaline Sullinger papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 924
Overview

The Madaline Sullinger papers are those of a native Kansan, who worked as a nutrition assistant through the Kansas State University Cooperative Extension Service.

Dates: 1971 - 1988

Madre Doña Juana Maria de la Fuente inventory

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E287
Overview

This volume contains an inventory of belongings for Madre Doña Juana Maria de la Fuente, a religious sister with the Monasterio de Santa Clara in Lima, Peru. After de la Fuente's death on March 5, 1741, her belongings were given to Madre Doña Maria Sebastiana Tello de Meneses, the abbess of the monestery. The second half of the volume contains receipts for the sale of each of the items to various individuals.

Dates: 1741

Maffet family papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 936
Overview

G.W. Maffet was the postmaster of Anthony, Kansas (Harper County), ca. 1878. This collection consists of primarily of family correspondence, 1890-1950, and other materials relating to the Maffet family and various Kansas businesses.

Dates: 1880 - 1951

Maggie Herrington journal

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P428
Overview

Maggie Herrington's journal of her experiences during the year 1867 as part of a school assignment and two pieces of correspondence between the Watkins Community Museum of Lawrence, Kansas, and Lida Mattman, Maggie Herrington's granddaughter, dated 1979.

Dates: 1867

MainStream Coalition records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1240
Overview

The MainStream Coalition is a political advocacy group established in 1993 over concerns of the separation of church and state. This collection contains organizational files, newsletters, newspaper clippings, election materials, video tapes and cassettes.

Dates: 1993 - 2010

Major H. Cleveland correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS 206
Overview

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and legal records.

Dates: 1868 - 1906

Making Do and Doing Without: Kansas in the Great Depression project records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 757
Overview

Making Do and Doing Without: Kansas in the Great Depression, a radio/newspaper series about Kansans' Depression-era experiences, was produced by the University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education. This collection consists of several cassette tape recordings of oral history interviews performed in 1982 and 1983, as well as project records and photocopies of primary source material and other research which formed the basis for the series.

Dates: 1982 - 1983

Manifesto: read to the congregation of the First Methodist Church in Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P689
Overview

Photocopy of a 3-page typescript manifesto read to the congregation of the First United Methodist Church (Lawrence, Kansas) on Sunday, May 10, 1970, by Bryce Rivers, Chairman, Coordinating Committee for the Black Community. Alleging the church's world-wide exploitation of African Americans, the manifesto demands payment of $75,000 in reparations for Lawrence's 3,000 African American residents.

Dates: May 10, 1970

Manuscript, "A Night of Terror"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P241
Overview

A night of terror. The recounting of events told by the widow of Duncan Allison, concerning Quantrill's Raid.

Dates: 1863

Manuscript accounts for the bark Waverly whaling ship

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E274
Overview

The Waverly was a 327-ton New Bedford, Massachusetts whaler owned by David B. Kempton. This account book records the purchases of each of 34 officers and crewmen who served aboard her during her 4-year voyage in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Dates: April 1859-May 1863

Manuscript fragments removed from book bindings

 Collection
Call Number: MS 20
Overview Fragments and scraps of manuscripts, including texts, letters, sheet music, and other items. These items were removed from book bindings of books held by the Kenneth Spencer Research Library in the Special Collections. Fragments were typically removed from those bindings when the Library sent items out for conservation or rebinding in the mid-20th century. Many of the books can be found in the Summerfield collection of Renaissance and Early Modern books, which consists of volumes printed on...
Dates: approximately 12th-16th, 19th centuries

Manuscript journal of Dorr C. Griffin

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B174
Overview

This collection consists of the handwritten journal of Dorr C. Griffin detailing his enlistment in the United States Army just before the beginning of World War I. The journal records Griffin's daily activities and travels.

Dates: 1914

Manuscript letter of Charles W. Goff

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P734
Overview

The collection consists of one letter written by Lieutenant Charles W. Goff to his girlfriend Dorothy F. Coylsendoll while traveling from the United States to France during World War I.

Dates: 1918

Manuscript music book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS K24
Overview

A book of approximately 75 tunes, mostly without words, of popular or traditional songs and dances, such as Deh Conte from Norma; Aurora Waltz; Last Rose of Summer; I'd Choose to be a Daisy; Partant pour la Svrie; The Coon-Hunt, and others. Most music was composed in the 1850s.

Dates: 188-?

Manuscript notes about the history of political-economical theory

 Collection
Call Number: MS C237
Overview

Volume of handwritten history of political-economical theory in Europe and the United States (may be lecture-notes or copy ready for printer). Appears to have been written by Professor Vissering: probably Simon Vissering, 1818-1888; possibly Gerard, 1865-1937. Dating for the volume comes from the "1871" mentioned on leaf 262.

Dates: Between 1871 and 1937

Manuscript notes of Léon Dorez

 Collection
Call Number: MS 5
Overview

Research notes of Léon Dorez (1864-1922), French scholar and librarian who specialized in the Italian humanists, with offprints of his published articles.

Dates: [late 19th-early 20th centuries]

Manuscript of "Album Verses"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P733
Overview

The handwritten poem of friendship "Album Verses" and note were found in the book "The Christian Minstrel" and appear to be written by the same author, Mollie. Both also include doodles.

Dates: 186-?

Manuscript on the History of Nicodemus Colony

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS D250
Overview

A manuscript for a planned publication on the history of Nicodemus, Kansas.

Dates: undated

Manuscript plat of "Lane Place" (Lane Addition, Lawrence, Kan.)

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS Q16
Overview

A plat of Lane Place, by Wm. F. Goodlove and George H. Pruett, surveyors. Lawrence, Kansas. Lane Place became known as the Lane Addition in Lawrence, Kansas

Dates: 1868

Manuscript Scores of Elizabeth Smith

 Collection
Call Number: MS E238
Overview

A collection of printed and manuscript scores, bound together.

Dates: approximately 183-?

Manuscript with editorial markings of Governor Charles Robinson of Kansas

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS 204
Overview

Manuscript for Governor Charles Robinson of Kansas, by Don W. Wilson, with editorial markings. Published by the University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, in 1975.

Dates: 1975

Manuscripts on Kansas History

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P7

Manuscripts relating to Guatemala and Central America

 Collection
Call Number: MS 187
Overview

Miscellaneous unbound manuscripts removed from the William J. Griffith collection of printed Guatemalan source material. Contains some records of the University of San Carlos and the Protomedicato; the Guatemalan government; letters by Rafael Carrera; and some papers relating to the Rojas family. Although most of the manuscripts are Guatemalan in origin, some are Costa Rican or Honduran, and there is one document each from Peru, Cuba, San Salvador, Nicaragua, and Spain.

Dates: 1627-1973 (bulk 1640-1830)

Map of historic places in Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P191
Dates: between 1900 and 1973

Maps, plans and views of the land holdings of Francesco Soderini

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: MS J11
Overview

Maps of the holding of Francesco Soderini near the river Egola (Evola) which runs into tho Arno west of Florence. Floor-plan and views of the villa and cottage of Barbialla, "per Montaione." Apparently for feudal purposes. Placement of the land not as important as area and shape of the land.

Dates: approximately 1709-1714

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Eigner , Larry, 1927-1996 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
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
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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