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Amos Adams Lawrence correspondence
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P84
Overview
This collection contains the correspondence of Amos Adams Lawrence, treasurer of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. The letters, to and from Lawrence, date from 1846-1878.
Dates:
1846 - 1878
Charles H. Branscomb papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P46
Overview
This collection consists of orrespondence and documents involving Charles H. Branscomb, agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company in territorial Kansas, dating from 1853-1886. Correspondents or individuals mentioned in the letters include James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893), Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886), Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Charles Robinson (1818-1894), John Pierce St. John (1835-19140, and Charles Sumner (1811-1874).
Dates:
1853 - 1886
Mary Richards letters to her brother Giles Richards
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P802
Overview
These two letters of 1836 were written by Mary Richards, aunt of Amos Adams Lawrence, for whom Lawrence, Kansas and Lawrence College (Appleton, Wisconsin) are named. Richards' letters are to her brother Giles Richards, a prominent Ohio pioneer in textile manufacturing. She writes of the Richards family of Roxbury, Massachusetts, describing their mother's declining health and death, their brother George's residency in Paris, activities of their brother-in-law Amos Lawrence and nephew Amos, and...
Dates:
1836
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
Reduced photostat copies of correspondence selected from letter books in the Massachusetts Historical Society
Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: RH MS D76
Overview
Correspondence selected from letter books in the Massachusetts Historical Society by Prof. Frank E. Melvin. Reduced photostats.
Dates:
1858 - 1868
William Lawrence letter
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P87
Overview
Letter addressed to "my dear Appleton", dated Milton, Massachusetts, October 15, 1940. The letter discusses the founding of Lawrence, and the naming of the town.
Dates:
October 15, 1940
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- Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861 3
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- Lawrence (Kan.) -- History 1
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- New England Emigrant Aid Company 2
- Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 2
- Appleton, William, 1786-1862 1
- Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson), 1854-1931 1
- Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
- Booth, Edw. 1
- Branscomb, Charles H. 1
- Des Moines Valley Railroad Company 1
- George, Henry, 1839-1897 1
- Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 1
- Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866 1
- Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852 1
- Lawrence, William, 1850-1941 1
- Melvin, Frank Edgar, 1881- 1
- Richards family 1
- Richards, Giles, 1792-1876 1
- Richards, Mary, 1798- 1
- Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 1
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