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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...
Dates:
1902 - 1909
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?
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-?
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