Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 records:
Correspondence from Marcus Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members
Collection — Box 1
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
Daniel Vanderslice correspondence, receipts, and legal documents.
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 136
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises personal and business correspondence, receipts and legal documents from 1826-1907. Also included are architectural plans and instructions for the building of a schoolhouse and a manuscript plat of Highland, Kansas, dated 1855.
Dates:
1826 - 1907
James William Denver papers and diary
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 19
Overview
Business papers and correspondence of James William Denver from 1839-1912. Includes a diary dated May 20, 1850-September 5, 1850, with miscellaneous notes.
Dates:
1839 - 1912
John A. Halderman correspondence and documents
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P57
Overview
Halderman was private secretary to A. H. Reeder, 1st governor of Kansas Territory. The letters deal with early Kansas Territory and State politics and government, land values and taxes, and some personal affairs.
Dates:
1854 - 1894
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
Letter from Sara T. D. Robinson, Oakridge (Lawrence, Kansas), to Professor and Mrs. Charles G. Dunlap
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: RH MS P610]
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
Letter to Mrs. Wilder S. Metcalf, Lawrence
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: RH MS P44_1]
Call Number: RH MS P44
Overview
Discusses Judge Smith's nomination for governor under the Lecompton constitution.
Dates:
between 1900 and 1914
Letter to S. S. Cox from William Taylor
Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P161
Overview
Letter to S.S. Cox dated Leavenworth, K.T. which discusses the Kansas constitution and lack of border incidents. Also dDescribes Kansas landscape.
Dates:
July 31, 1859
Letter to Thomas Sherwood
Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P152
Overview
Letter addressed to "Friend Woodward", dated Squaws Leg City which discusses territorial legislature at Pawnee; describes incident between Stringfellow and Reeder
Dates:
July 5, 1855
Letter to William Pierce, 1854
Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P481
Overview
Letter written by C.C. Andrews in Fort Leavenworth to his friend, William Pierce.
Dates:
September 11, 1854
Memoir of early days in Kansas
Collection — Box 1
Call Number: RH MS 128
Overview
Eldridge was active in the efforts to make Kansas Territory a free state. Formerly a Democrat, Eldridge joined the Kansas delegation at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Memoir of early days in Kansas, miscellaneous stock certificates, and account sheets, 1859-1898.
Dates:
1859 - 1898
Original typescript of Bleeding Kansas.
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 30
Overview
Editor's copy of the manuscript, "Bleeding Kansas",
Dates:
1954
Robert John Walker correspondence, and notes front speeches
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P172
Dates:
1845-1846, 1857
W.B. Spaulding letter to D. P. [Daniel Peterson] Woodbury
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P784
Overview
This 2-page letter from W.B. Spaulding of Quincy, Illinois to his friend Daniel Peterson Woodbury of Weare, New Hampshire contains the writer's assessment of the Lecompton Constitution, framed in Lecompton, Kansas in 1857 by pro-slavery advocates for purposes of Kansas Statehood. Spaulding's views address President James Buchanan's support of the Lecompton Constitution and the resulting impact on Territorial Kansas and on the Buchanan presidency. Included is a letter with explanatory background...
Dates:
April 17, 1858; accompanying background letter, April 10, 1974