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Correspondence from Marcus Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members
Collection
Call Number: RH MS VLT 554
Overview
The collection contains 34 letters written by Marcus Junius Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members. The letters date from April 7, 1851 to April 28, 1862, and are arranged chronologically. Also included in the collection are a brief handwritten statement by [Laurette?] Parrott [Irvin?] regarding the collection content, and an offprint of a published 1865 sermon by Phillips Brooks, delivered at the time of Abraham Lincoln's death.
Dates:
1851 - 1862
F. B. Silkman letter
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P969
Overview
This collection consists of a single letter written by F. B. Silkman to his father from Leavenworth City, Kansas Territory. Silkman indicates that he cannot leave due to nobody else being available to mind the store; discusses the recent local election, indicating that three Pennsylvanians were elected and Thomas T. Slocum was elected mayor; proslavery men from Missouri pulled their man from the election when it became clear he would be defeated and some of them had gone to the Missouri...
Dates:
September 5, 1855
Letter from David Sterrett (Sterrettania, Erie County, Penn.) to his son Innis
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P612
Overview
An 1856 letter from Sterrettania, Pennsylvania resident David Sterrett to his son Innis (David Brice Innis Sterrett), containing news of his other sons, including Andrew Jackson Sterrett of Leavenworth (Kansas Territory).
Dates:
November 13, 1856