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Clipping scrapbooks compiled by Sara Robinson
Collection
Call Number: RH MS E67
Scope and Contents
These clippings were collected by Sara Robinson, Charles Robinson's wife. The clippings treat the lives of Charles Robinson, John Brown, James H. Lane, and numerous others prominent in Kansas history. There is biographical information about Lawrence residents, local and regional history.
Dates:
1857 - 1894
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
Letters from Sara Robinson
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P141
Overview
Sara Robinson's letters to Phebe Stone, her sister-in-law, were written while her husband Charles Robinson was in California. Her letters to Frank Blackmar mention a history written about the University of Kansas, events at the University, books about Kansas, property holdings and taxes, and farm management and expenses.
Dates:
1850 - 1909
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
Filtered By
- Names: Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 X
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- Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861 4
- Farm management -- Records and correspondence 1
- Kansas -- Biography 1
- Kansas -- Constitution 1
- Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Kansas -- History -- Historiography 1
- Kansas -- Maps 1
- Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861 1
- Land use -- Kansas -- Lawrence 1
- Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kan., 1863 1
- Scrapbooks -- Kansas 1
- Temperance 1
- Wyandotte (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 3
- Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson), 1854-1931 2
- Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866 2
- New England Emigrant Aid Company 2
- University of Kansas 2
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