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John Brown letters
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P2
Overview
This collection consists of four letters from abolitionist John Brown.
Dates:
1856, 1859
Lathrop Bullene family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS VLT A1
Overview
Diary, January 17, 1857 to April 12, 1857; with a partial address and account book, circa 1854-1857? Account of Lathrop Bullene's journey to Lawrence in the Kansas Territory, starting from Richmond, Illinois. Various addressees, accounting notations, and itineraries are written at the front and near the end of the diary. The collection also includes a telegram sent by W.M. Johnson to Bullene after Quantrill's raid, reassuring Bullene that his family was safe, as well as Bullene's son William...
Dates:
January 17, 1857-April 12, 1857; between 1854-1857; August 22, 1863; 1925
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