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North Lawrence postal records

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P189
Overview

Postal records from the North Lawrence post office, 1884-1885. Legible coverage includes records from Dec. 8, 1884 to Dec. 18, 1884 and March 14, 1385 to Sept. 30, 1885. The section from Jan. 1, 1885 to March 13, 1885 has been used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings, mostly obituaries of early Kansas men.

Dates: 1884 - 1885

Northeast Kansas Girl Scouts related records

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1505
Overview

Girl Scouts of the United States of America is a youth development organization that instills leadership skills in girls through community service, camping, hiking, and other outdoor excursions. This collection comprises the records of Girl Scout councils representing northeast Kansas, and particularly Douglas County, from the early years of Girl Scouting in the area in the 1920s through the beginning of the 21st century.

Dates: 1923 - 2014

Northwestern Missouri photographic prints

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH PH P2824
Overview

Two black and white photographs of homes with families standing or seated outside with their dogs. One print was taken by Foulks' Model Studio of Renick, MO, and the other was by A. W. Manning's Studio of Edina, MO.

Dates: [1890-1900?]

Nortonville (Kan.) police court records

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS G74
Overview

Official record of cases brought before the police court by the city of Nortonville. Included are the names of the defendants, date, presiding judge, fines levied, court costs, nature of complaint, warrant information, and, in some cases, a description of the proceedings.

Dates: 1890 - 1925

Notae in tres priores Institutionum libros et ad tit.de iurisd. om. iud. ff.

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS B14
Overview

Volume of compiled writings possibly about the law, possibly written in France in the 16th and/or 17th centuries, in multiple hands.

Dates: 16th-17th centuries?

Note from Anaïs Nin to Terrence Williams

 Collection
Call Number: MS P235
Overview

A note written to Terrence Williams by American author Anais Nin.

Dates: January 6, 1956

Note on Richardson's addition to Vigors’ "Zoology of Beechey's Voyage"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P466
Overview

Typed transcription of John Richardson's (1787-1865) "List of mammalia" and "Additional observations" as printed in Vigor's "Zoology..., 1839." Glossed in manuscript by Merriam.

Dates: 1900?

Note to Professor John Ise and clippings about the Kansas Freedom Hunger Committee

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P215
Overview

Note to Prof. [John] Ise enclosing copies of newspaper clippings about the Kansas Freedom from Hunger Committee. Topeka, Kansas.

Dates: 1962

Notebook of the Friendly Ten Club

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P746
Overview

The notebook includes minutes and dues information of the Friendly Ten Club.

Dates: 1952 - 1953

Notes and annotations in 1859 edition of The Manufacture of Photogenic or Hydro-carbon Oils

 Collection
Call Number: MS C79
Overview In this 1859 edition of Thomas Antisell's The Manufacture of Photogenic or Hydro-carbon Oils, from Coal and Other Bituminous Substances, Capable of Supplying Burning Fluids (MS C79), Thomas Antisell (tentatively identified) has made annotations in the text and interleaved various notes relating to the topic of the book, perhaps in preparation for a new edition. Most of the notes have been removed from the book and are housed separately at call number MS 306....
Dates: [1860?] - 1880

Notes and annotations relating to the history of elections in the county of Suffolk

 Collection
Call Number: MS P727
Overview Charles William Heigham, who flourished in the nineteenth century, copied notes on elections in Suffolk County, England, onto two sheets of paper and placed the sheets into a 1764 copy of The Suffolk Traveller by John Kirby (2nd edition). Heigham also annotated the book with notes of contested elections in the county in the eighteenth century and provided a list of Knights of the Shire 1297-1471. The book has a bookplate on the front paste down and a...
Dates: approximately 1865

Notes and records of Irish politics

 Collection
Call Number: MS G19
Overview

Three items on Irish politics.

Dates: 1893 - 1921

Notes for Parliamentary Speech about Patents for Salt Making

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P522
Overview

Bifolium: notes for Parliamentary speech [draft].Appears to be a draft with corrections, therefore probably in author's hand.

Dates: March 28, 1626

Notes on Macrobius’ Saturnalia by Thomas Gray

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C40
Overview

Notes by Thomas Gray (1716-1771) on the Roman author Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius' work Saturnalia, including very detailed references to individual phrases and words and citing both classical and contemporary authors. Gray was probably writing in Oxford, England in the 1740s.

Dates: 1740-1750?

Notes on Professor Hall performing surgery, Phiadelphia, Hahnemann Medical College

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS AK4
Overview

Notes on Professor Hall performing surgery.

Dates: Between 1880 and 1889

Notes on Several Gaelic Works

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P709
Overview

An unknown writer from the British Isles makes notes on the Mirror of the Sacrament of Penance by Hugh McAngel, "A Dialogue between Oisin and Patrick", "A Dialogue between Tadhg and the Friar", and the description of several miracles. Some names and notes are in Gaelic, including a transcription of "The Miracle of Scuithin and Bishop Bairre". The notes were written on one bifolium, covering 4 pages.

Dates: Approximately 1835

Notes on the genealogy of the Chaplyn/Chaplin and Grover families of England

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS E115
Overview

This volume contains a compilation in several hands of items related to the genealogy and history of the Chaplyn or Chaplin and Grover families of England, covering the 15th or 16th through 19th centuries. George Edward Grover is associated with the volume but may not have been the compiler, merely instead used as a source.

Dates: covering the 16th-19th centuries, compiled approximately 1881-1882

Notes on the Treaty of Paris

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P730
Overview Found in a copy of The martial review; or, a general history of the late wars; together with the definitive treaty, and some reflections on the probable consequences of the peace, attributed to Oliver Goldsmith and published in 1763, this list makes 6 points about what's wrong with the Treaty of Paris, which was signed in February 1763. The unknown writer took issue with the fact that the treaty was not in English. He also thought that the French should not...
Dates: after February 1763

Novel prologue draft of Norman Mailer

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P473
Overview

Author's draft typescript of "The Time of the Evil Saint Prologue" to a novel, corrected for the printer. Begins "1. To be forced to admire what one instinctively hates..." Ends "... to search for the Devil while I carry with me the minds of some of you." Norman Mailer was a United States-based author and journalist of the 20th century.

Dates: 195-?; before 1964.

Nüzliches Allerlei zur Haushaltung, written for Antoinette Weikart by her father

 Collection
Call Number: MS B108
Overview

Book: household and cookery recipes, including some ciphers.

Dates: 1822

Oak Hill Cemetery lot certificate and deed, Lawrence, Kansas

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P150
Overview

The certificate is filled out by the City Clerk's Office, Sept. 17, 1867. The deed, for a lot in Oak Hill Cemetery, is signed by the Mayor and the city clerk, March 28, 1868.

Dates: 1867 - 1868

Oak Ridge Birthday Club collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1577
Overview

The Oak Ridge Birthday Club was a women's social club for rural farmers' wives outside Lawrence, Kansas. The collection contains official records from the club, including constitutions, lists of members, annual programs, minutes and ledgers, as well as notes taken by club members and correspondence with the club. These records were retained by the club historian, Marie Ice, who donated them along with her notes and research on the history of the club.

Dates: 1923 - 2006

Obligations by Peter Rogers, gent. of Middlesex and Peter Brockelsbye, gent, of St. Andrew's Holborn, Middlesex, to pay Edward Thomas de Graies 200 English pounds

 Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Call Number: MS 12:2
Overview

Fragment of document. Obligation by Peter Rogers, gent. of Middlesex and Peter Brockelsbye, gent., of St. Andrew's Holborn, Middlesex, to pay Edward Thomas de Graces 200 English pounds or...

Dates: October 1647

Observations on the practice of a Justice of the Peace, intended for the use of such gentlemen, as design to act for Middlesex or Westmister

 Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: MS C159
Overview

Hints to Justice of the Peaces (with little legal knowledge) on how to keep out of trouble, and the deceptions practiced on them.

Dates: 18th century

Observations on the Spectator

 Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: MS P491
Overview

Paraphrases of and quotations from selected essays between no. 170 and no. 635 from the magazine The Spectator.

Dates: before March 12, 1756

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United States. Army 20
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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