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Autobiography of Mary F. Beeson: James Warfield family in Old Shawneetown
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P615
Overview
Typescript of the autobiography of Mary F. Beeson, including Beeson's account of the murder of her father, James Lot Warfield, by William Quantrill's guerrilla band on October 17, 1862 at Shawneetown, Kansas.
Dates:
1905-1910
Barnabas Dorr Palmer personal papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P111
Overview
The papers include (1) a testimony to his recent left-handness sworn before Douglas County Clerk in 1867, (2) a manuscript titled "A sketch of my military history" which he entered in a penmanship contest, sponsored by William Oland Bourne, editor of the "Soldier's Friend", (3) a letter from General U.S. Grant awarding Palmer first prize in the contest, and (4) letter awarding Palmer a $50 prize.
Dates:
1867 - 1868
Civil War letters and Quantrill Ribbon
Collection
Call Number: RH VLT MS 1388
Overview
The collection consists of two letters on the subject of William Clarke Quantrill, though not specifically his raid on Lawrence, Kansas. The collection also includes a ribbon from a reunion in honor of the survivors of Quantrill's raid and one issue of the Lafayette Daily Journal of Indiana, dated June 6, 1856, which includes an article about Kansas.
Dates:
1856, 1862, 1883
Correspondence between Oscar G. Richards and William E. Connelley
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P136
Overview
Richards and William Connelley corresponded about Kansas territorial history. Richards, who participated in the border wars between Kansas Territory and Missouri (1854-1861), recounted the events for Connelley, a historian. The letters, dated 1902-1909, were written approximately 50 years after the events. Connelley and Richards were specifically interested in detailing the border war involvement of Richards himself as well as James Lane, John Brown, William Quantrill, and Governor Charles...
Dates:
1902 - 1909
Dark Command premiere newspaper clippings
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P720
Overview
Dark Command, a film based on the novel by William Riley Burnett, relates the exploits of William Quantrill and his raid on Lawrence, Kansas, during the Civil War. With such movie stars as John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Claire Trevor and Roy Rogers, the film had its premiere showing in Lawrence on April 4, 1940. This collection is comprised of area newspaper clippings about the film's debut and preparations for the gala which included a parade, a ball and a reenactment of the burning of the Free...
Dates:
1940
Episodes in Kansas history
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P27
Overview
Episodes in Kansas history; three incidents included in The Gun and the Gospel. Lawrence? ca. 1896?
Dates:
approximately 1896?
Interview with William E. Connelley
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E71
Overview
Elias Snyder, son of Ely Snyder, interview with William E. Connelley on the Marais des Cygnes Massacre, May 19th, 1858; William C. Quantrill; John Brown on the Snyder Claim; James Montgomery; Marshall Cleveland, and the last of the Jayhawkers. Lawrence, Kan., 1942.
Dates:
1942
Interviews by William E. Connelley and letter
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P131
Overview
The accounts in this collection relate to Reuben Randlett's experiences in the 1856 sacking of Lawrence, Kansas; his activities as a spy among the raiders; the Battle of Black Jack; the dissolution of the Free State legislature in Topeka on July 4, 1856; and Randlett's captivity by William C. Quantrill in 1862. The collection also includes a photograph of Randlett.
Dates:
1906 - 1916
Jennie Earl and Elizabeth S.C. [Crittenden] correspondence
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P285
Overview
This collection of letters was apparently written by two sisters living in Lawrence from 1859 to sometime after 1863. The letters are written to their mother and brother who lived in Westinfield, Connecticut, and concern events in Lawrence prior to and during the Civil War.
Dates:
1859-186-?
John Hutchings correspondence
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P66
Overview
The first two letters are from Banks, who preceded Hutchings to Lawrence, and they describe Lawrence, the lawyers, and law practice in the area. The third letter written by W. B. West mentions Quantrill's raid and asks about job opportunities in Lawrence.
Dates:
1862 - 1863
Letter from F. L. Pilla to his brother
Collection
Call Number: RH VLT MS P9
Overview
F.L. Pilla was a minister in Eudora, Kansas at the time of Confederate ally William C. Quantrill's attack on Lawrence, Kansas in mid-August 1863. Pilla writes to his brother recounting this news and indicating that there was some fear that Eudora might have been one of Quantrill's targets.
Dates:
September 21, 1863
Letter from George E. Young
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P620
Overview
This letter from George Edwin Young, a survivor of William Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, August 21, 1863, was written to his father two days following the massacre. A typed and annotated transcription of the letter is included.
Dates:
August 23, 1863
Letter to J. J. Lutz regarding the purchase of picture of William Clarke Quantrill from Jesse James
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P232
Overview
Letter from C.F. Gunther to J.J. Lutz regarding the purchase of picture of William Clarke Quantrill from Jesse James.
Dates:
1987
Narrative of Andrew Williams, a formerly enslaved African American
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P42
Overview
Andrew Williams' autobiographical narrative gives an account of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. Williams wrote it at the urging of William E. Connelley.
Dates:
1861 - 1910
Newspaper clippings regarding Quantrill
Collection — Volume: 1-2
Call Number: RH MS E170
Overview
Two volumes of mounted newspaper clippings collected by Watson Library staff from numerous publications circa 1863-1963, on the life of William Clark Quantrill and the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, August 21, 1863. Volume one contains newspaper articles on the James brothers, Frank and Jesse and volume two contains articles on survivors and reunions of the Raid on Lawrence
Dates:
1945 - 1952
Oscar Eugene Learnard family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 36
Overview
This collection consists of copied and original correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other related materials regarding the life of Oscar Eugene Learnard, his family, and the early history of Lawrence, Kansas.
Dates:
1850 - 1943
Pioneer life in Kansas
Collection — folders: 1-2
Call Number: RH MS P114
Overview
This collection consists of a single, three-page typescript reminiscence by Caroline Updegraff Parker, relating the experiences of her brother William W. Updegraff and her own family in Osawatomie, Kansas from 1855 to 1869, as well as a photograph of her brother William later in his life.
Dates:
[between 1875-1910]
Reminiscences of Quantrill's Raid
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS E78
Overview
Reminiscences of Quantrill's raid upon the city of Lawrence, Kansas, thrilling narratives by living eye witnesses. Kansas City, Missouri, Isaac P. Moore, Printer and binder. Compiled and arranged by John C. Shea, the letters were originally written for the Chicago Times.
Dates:
1870
The history of our ancestors; a record of the Riggs, Baldridge and Agnew families
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D59
Overview
The history of our ancestors. Being a record of the Riggs, Baldridge, and Agnew families together with fragmentary data as to other cognate families.
Ann Arbor, Mich., 1915.
Dates:
1915
William Clarke Quantrill correspondence
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 75
Overview
This collection includes letters from William Clarke Quantrill to his mother, Caroline Clarke Quantrill, preceding and up to the raid of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. Also included in the collection is the correspondence of William W. Scott, editor of the Iron Valley Reporter and friend of Mrs. Quantrill, who attempted to help Mrs. Quantrill obtain the truth about her son. This correspondence consists of letters between Scott and people who allegedly had known...
Dates:
1855 - 1906
W.W. Scott letters
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P231
Overview
Letters to Scott concerning Quantrill's Raid, including one from Charles F. Taylor who was one of Quantrill's men, and concerning William C. Quantrill's family genealogy.
Dates:
1879 - 1898
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