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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
Letter from David Sterrett (Sterrettania, Erie County, Penn.) to his son Innis
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P612
Overview
An 1856 letter from Sterrettania, Pennsylvania resident David Sterrett to his son Innis (David Brice Innis Sterrett), containing news of his other sons, including Andrew Jackson Sterrett of Leavenworth (Kansas Territory).
Dates:
November 13, 1856
Letter from Sara T. D. Robinson, Oakridge (Lawrence, Kansas), to Professor and Mrs. Charles G. Dunlap
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P610
Overview
This letter from Sara T. D. Robinson (widow of Kansas Governor Charles Robinson), March 5, 1902, accompanies her transmittal of a copy of her husband's book, The Kansas Conflict, to Professor and Mrs. Charles Graham Dunlap of Lawrence, Kansas. Mrs. Robinson conveys supplementary information regarding communications between Secretary Frederick P. Stanton and her husband pursuant to Governor Robinson's refusal to confer commissions recommended by U.S. Senator...
Dates:
March 5, 1902
Letter to Captain Grover from Captain Sircoxy
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P828
Overview
This letter, dated November 3, 1857, is from Delaware Chief John Sarcoxie (signed "Sircoxy" in the letter) to Joel Grover, a free-state loyalist of Kansas Territory whose property in the town of Lawrence was a station on the Underground Railroad. Citing their prior contract, the Delaware chief asks for Grover's payment of $600 to the Delaware Nation as agreed upon completion of the Quindaro Road (a stage road from the Underground Railroad town of Quindaro, Kansas to Lawrence, completed in...
Dates:
November 3, 1857
Lewis Timothy Litchfield papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS VLT B6
Overview
This collection includes Lewis Timothy Litchfield's diary, 1854-1855, containing an account of his trip and settlement in Lawrence, Kansas, as part of the second Emigrant Aid party, and a certificate presented to Litchfield from his English study at Cambridge High School in Massachusetts.
Dates:
1854 - 1855
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
Maude Gooch Phillips poems
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P88
Overview
Handwritten and typed manuscripts of poems written by Maude Gooch Phillips, mostly focused on the early history of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas.
Dates:
early 1900s
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
Newspaper clippings regarding James Henry Lane
Collection — Volume: 1-2
Call Number: RH MS E85
Overview
These volumes are compilations by members of the Watson Library staff of newspaper clippings dated 1861-1959 about James Lane and his descendants.
Dates:
1939 - 1952
Old Sacramento; an account of the cannon reputed to have fired the first shot against slavery
Collection — Volume: 1-2
Call Number: RH MS D29
Overview
This is an account of the artillery piece originally captured by Col. Alexander Doniphan during the Mexican War. The cannon is reputed to have "fired the first shot" against slavery as well as in support of the cause. It is now on permanent deposit with the Douglas County Historical Society, Lawrence, Kansas.
Dates:
1935
Original typescript of Bleeding Kansas.
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 30
Overview
Editor's copy of the manuscript, "Bleeding Kansas",
Dates:
1954
Papers of Charles Robinson
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 38
Overview
The collection of correspondence, documents, and addresses of Charles Robinson, housed in the Kansas Collection, is mainly from the period 1854 to 1861. Robinson was a resident agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company and an advocate for the Free State, anti-slavery cause. There are items on the founding of the University of Kansas. There are also letters from Mrs. Robinson to F. W. Blackmar, the biographer of Governor Robinson.
Dates:
1836 - 1911
Papers of the New England Emigrant Aid Company
Collection — Reel: 1-9
Call Number: RH MF 99
Overview
This collection consists of microfilmed copies of the official records and correspondence of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, an organization founded to help individuals from the northeastern United States move to the newly opened Kansas territory in order to help the territory become a free state rather than a slaveholding state.
Dates:
1854 - 1909
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]
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
Statement regarding Kansas history in 1856 and later
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P142
Overview
Relates experiences with John Brown at the Battle of Black Jack and other events from May to August of 1856 including disbanding the Free State Legislature on July 4. A short character sketch of Roe is included.
Dates:
May 20, 1925
The weakness of Kansas Claims Associations: a ramification of their protectiveness
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P99
Overview
Paper presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Seminar American History 306. Includes bibliography.
Dates:
1959
True history of the Kansas wars
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH MS D204
Scope and Contents
True history of the Kansas wars: and their origin, progress and incidents.../ By 0. N. Merrill; illustrated with beautifully-colored engravings; also a portrait of the author.--Cincinnati: J. R. Telfer, 1856.
Dates:
1856
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
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