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"A Twelve Months Practical Life in Kansas Territory Written by an Actual Settler"
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P186
Overview
This manuscript was intended to be published as a guide for emigrants to Kansas Territory. Tovey, who had come to the territory as an emigrant in 1854 from Albany, New York, used his own experience to provide what he believed to be useful information for potential emigrants on the land available and its natural resources. Also included are current prices for cattle, provisions, and medical assistance, the various Native American tribes, contemporary politics, and his personal view of the...
Dates:
Approximately 1856
Anne E. Bingham reminiscences
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P56
Overview
Reminiscences of life on a farm near Junction City following migration west in 1869. Sixteen years on a Kansas farm, 1870-1886.
Dates:
1869, 1870-1886, 1921
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
D.C. Barrett correspondence with a manuscript biography of Samuel Ira Munger
Collection
Call Number: RH VLT MS P4
Overview
Correspondence with representatives of the American Settlement Company, a New York-based joint stock company, 1854-1856; with a manuscript biography of Samuel Ira Munger, dated January 1, 1877.
Dates:
1854-1856, January 1, 1877
Edward Everett Hale letter
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P960
Overview
Single handwritten letter, written by Edward Everett Hale to Abbott Lawrence, regarding the formation of the New England Emigrant Aid Company and requesting Lawrence to consider financially backing the company. The company was formed soon after the creation of the Kansas and Nebraska Territories, with the intention of settlers from the northeastern states going to Kansas to settle and help it become a free state, rather than a slaveholding state. Folder also includes envelope in which letter...
Dates:
May 14, 1854
Henry Martyn Dexter correspondence
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P18
Overview
This collection contains letters to Horace James, dating from 1843-1845 and 1852-1857.
Dates:
1843-1845, 1852-1857
John Bayless papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 133
Overview
John Bayless was president of the Susquehanna Western Emigration Company, formed in Kirkwood, Broome County, New York, December 7, 1854. This collection consist of papers concerning Highland, Kansas, 1840-1872.
Dates:
1840 - 1872
John Brown letters
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P2
Overview
This collection consists of four letters from abolitionist John Brown.
Dates:
1856, 1859
Julius Gottlieb Papers
Collection — folders: 1-4
Call Number: RH MS P316
Overview
Handwritten travel narrative in German, typewritten German transcription, and typewritten English translation of Julius Gottlieb's journey from Bosen, Germany to Pleasanton, Kansas in 1884. Gottlieb wrote his narrative in 1885 and his daughter, Selma Kallis, made the transcription and translation at a later date. Kallis' translation includes explanatory footnotes. Also included in Gottlieb's papers are several items collected on his trip, such as a baggage claim check and a vaccination ticket,...
Dates:
1884-1885
Lathrop Bullene diary
Collection — Volume: 1
Call Number: RH VLT MS A1
Overview
Diary, January 17, 1857 to April 12, 1857; with a partial address and account book, ca. 1856-1857? Account of journey to Lawrence, starting from Richmond, Illinois. Various addressee, accounting notations, and itineraries are written at the front and near the end of the diary.
Dates:
January 17, 1857-April 12, 1857 and between 1856-1857
Letter to Rev. Samuel Y. Lum, Lawrence, Kansas
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P5
Overview
Letter of recommendation from Joseph Baldwin, clerk of the Calvanistic Congregational Church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts to Rev. Samuel Y. Lum, Pastor, Plymouth Church, Lawrence on behalf of Mrs. Nancy Hunt (probably the wife of George W. Hunt, who had emigrated to Kansas Territory circa 1855). Dated Fitchburg, [Mass.], May 5, 1856.
Dates:
May 5, 1856
Letters to Eliza Tovey
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P185
Overview
Written to his wife, Eliza Tovey, the four letters describe Robert Atkins Tovey's journey from Albany, New York to Kansas Territory, including descriptions of the territory, contemporary politics, the rigors of establishing a land claim, and settling it in early Kansas.
Dates:
January 23 - December 17, 1854
MYgration stories: the oral histories of Hispanic immigrants in Kansas City, Kansas
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 565
Overview
Project report, sound cassettes, and transcripts of interviews of thirty-one Hispanic and Latino immigrants to the United States, residing in Kansas City, Kansas. Interviews were conducted January-October, 2003.
Dates:
2003
Papers concerning Kansas Territory and Highland, Kansas
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 135
Overview
The first papers of the collection, dating from the 1830s to 1855, cover William Patton's residence in Missouri and receipts for purchases of enslaved persons. The latter portion of the collection includes papers from related families and kinsmen: Summers, Renfro. and Pryor Plank.
Dates:
1834 - 1912
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
Personal papers of J. Neale Carman
Collection
Call Number: PP 106
Overview
Carman taught Romance Languages at the University of Kansas from 1918-1966. This collection contains correspondence, notes, maps, research and reference material, and manuscripts from Carman's career at KU, notably regarding populations with foreign language backgrounds in Kansas from the first Euro-American settlers to the mid-20th century.
Dates:
1918 - 1966
Robert L. Gilbert papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P238
Overview
Robert L. Gilbert immigrated to the United States from England in 1855 and arrived in Lawrence, Kansas later that year. This collection contains diaries, personal books, letters and official documents, and an autobiography, and photographs.
Dates:
1849-1973, predominantly 1849-1913
Samuel Knox business papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 22
Overview
The correspondence in this collection is primarily concerned with land sales, in Kansas, Nebraska and other states, financial matters, excursion trips to the Western states, and immigration to Kansas and Nebraska. Knox's legal papers are also included. Among Knox's correspondents were soldiers fighting in the Civil War in Kansas and Illinois volunteer regiments, his family (including a family history), requests for information regarding land in Kansas and Nebraska, and responses to Knox's...
Dates:
1852 - 1888
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- Kansas -- Description and travel 4
- Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861 4
- Highland (Kan.) -- History 2
- Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861 2
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- Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Burlingame (Kan.) 1
- Doniphan County (Kan.) -- History 1
- Farm life -- Kansas 1
- Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) 1
- Fort Riley (Kan.) 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Jefferson County 1
- Geary County (Kan.) -- History 1
- Germany -- Description and travel 1
- Highland (Kan.) 1
- Hispanic Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Kansas 1
- Hispanic Americans -- Kansas -- Kansas City 1
- Human settlements -- Kansas 1
- Indians of North America -- Kansas 1
- Junction City (Kan.) 1
- Kansas -- History 1
- Kansas City (Kan.) -- Social conditions 1
- Land companies 1
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- Land use -- Kansas -- Lecompton 1
- Land use -- Nebraska 1
- Latin Americans -- Kansas -- Kansas City 1
- Mexican Americans -- Kansas -- Kansas City 1
- Missouri -- History 1
- Nebraska -- Emigration and immigration 1
- Oregon National Historic Trail 1
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- Prohibition -- Kansas 1
- Randolph County (Mo.) -- History 1
- Real estate investment -- Kansas 1
- Slavery -- Kansas 1
- Teachers -- Illinois 1
- United States -- Description and travel 1
- Voyages and travels 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 2
- Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886 2
- New England Emigrant Aid Company 2
- Tovey, Robert Atkins 2
- American Settlement Company (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Baldwin, Joseph (Resident of Fitchburg, Mass.) 1
- Barrett, D. C. 1
- Bayless, John, 1834?-1873 1
- Bingham, Anne E. 1
- Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893 1
- Branscomb, Charles H. 1
- Brown, Jason 1
- Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
- Brown, John, 1821-1895 1
- Bullene, Lathrop, 1826-1915 1
- Carman, J. Neale (Justice Neale), 1897-1972 1
- Day, Orson 1
- Des Moines Valley Railroad Company 1
- Dexter, Henry Martyn, 1821-1890 1
- El Centro, Inc. (Kansas City, Kan.) 1
- Fablinger, Ellen Brown, 1854-1916 1
- Gilbert, Robert L. 1
- Gottlieb, Julius, 1868-1921 1
- Hockett Redd, Nancy 1
- Hockett-Hoggatt family 1
- Hunt, Nancy, active 1855-1896 1
- Irvin, S. M. (Samuel Mcleary), 1812- 1
- James, Horace, 1818-1875 1
- Kallis, Selma Gottlieb 1
- Kansas Humanities Council 1
- Knox family. 1
- Knox, Ada 1
- Knox, Anson 1
- Knox, S. F. 1
- Knox, Samuel Miles 1
- Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855 1
- Lum, Samuel Y. 1
- Moses, Rebekah L. 1
- Munger, Samuel Ira 1
- New-York Kansas League. 1
- Park, Edward Amasa, 1808-1900 1
- Patrick, S. B. 1
- Patton family 1
- Patton, William (Pioneer) 1
- Plymouth Congregational Church (Lawrence, Kan.) 1
- Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864 1
- Seymour, John L., active 1843-1857 1
- Shannon, Wilson, 1802-1877 1
- Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. 1
- Susquehanna Western Emigration Company (Kirkwood, N.Y.) 1
- Tovey, Eliza Matthew 1
- Union Pacific Railroad Company 1
- Youngson, John 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 18
- Multiple languages 1
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