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Letter addressed to Charles Kellogg, Topeka

Collection — Folder: 1

Call Number: RH MS P73

Overview The letter concerns personal real estate transactions and troubles along the Missouri-Kansas border between free state and pro-slavery partisans. Letter is written on back page of "Appeal of Kansas to the voters of the Free States" dated Topeka, July 4, 1856. This printed appeal concerns the contested election of 1856 and an appeal for Kansas to join the Union as a free state.

Dates: August 6, 1856

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library

Memoir of early days in Kansas

Collection — Box: 1

Call Number: RH MS 128

Overview Eldridge was active in the efforts to make Kansas Territory a free state. Formerly a Democrat, Eldridge joined the Kansas delegation at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Memoir of early days in Kansas, miscellaneous stock certificates, and account sheets, 1859-1898.

Dates: 1859 - 1898

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library

Robert Atkins Tovey, Senior collection

Collection

Call Number: RH MS P185

Overview This collection includes letters written by Tovey to his wife Eliza, as well as a manuscript of Tovey's life in the Kansas Territory intended to help possible emigrants to the territory.

Dates: January 23 - December 17, 1854; approximately 1856

Found in: University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library

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Letter addressed to Charles Kellogg, Topeka

Memoir of early days in Kansas

Robert Atkins Tovey, Senior collection

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