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Date: December 14, 1860
This circular describes the beginnings of the Territorial Executive Committee, which was in charge of collecting relief to aid the struggling settlers of Kansas Territory during the 1860 drought. This…
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Date: August 13, 1856
This circular was composed of two parts. The first section was a letter written from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, to the National Kansas Committee, that asked for help because of the…
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Date: December 8, 1856
This broadside of a letter by W. F. M. Arny was written to Governor John White Geary about the need for education in Kansas Territory. Arny, an agent with the…
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Date: 1861
This rate schedule published rates for ferrying vehicles, animals, and people by a firm whose proprietors were, evidently, J. Middaugh and O. A. Curtis. The rate schedule was printed by…
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Date: June 2, 1856
This circular was written by Benjamin J. Walsh to members of the Kansas Settler’s Society concerning emigration to Kansas and efforts to raise needed funds to complete the trip to…
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Date: March 1, 1855
This report, written by Edward E. Hale of the Worchester County Kansas League, reported that the Emigrant Aid Company had increased its prices to convey emigrants to Kansas Territory because…
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Date: September 24, 1856
This report, written by B. B. Newton to the Vermont State Kansas Committee, described the efforts made by the Pioneer Party to settle in Kansas Territory.
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Date: 1857
This printed letter, written by A. Havington Shurtleff, agent for the New York State Kansas Aid Society, provided twenty points of infomation about traveling to Kansas Territory as part of…
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Date: December 19, 1858
The focus of this letter from Samuel C. Smith in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, to Charles Robinson in Washington, D.C., was the effort underway in Lawrence and Douglas County to attract…
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Date: December 15, 1858
In this mostly personal note to his wife, Sara, from Washington, D.C., Charles Robinson briefly mentions the business (“Lawrence case”) he had before “the Land Commission,” and then complains about…
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Date: December 7, 1858
In this letter from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, Samuel C. Smith wrote in some detail about developments with respect to the Delaware lands, apparently connected to a railroad promotion scheme. The…
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Date: December 1, 1858
Samuel C. Smith, Robinson’s attorney and associate in matters having to do especially with the Quindaro venture, wrote from Lawrence, Kansas Territory, about certain farm issues–presumably having to do with…
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Date: October 19, 1858
Amos A. Lawrence, the benefactor of the city of Lawrence and much free-state activity generally, writes Robinson from Boston, Massachusetts, about several issues, including the establishment of a college, and…
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Date: July 9, 1856
George Washington Brown, editor of the “Herald of Freedom” newspaper, was one of seven free state leaders arrested on May 14, 1856, on charges of high treason and held prisoner…
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Date: November 14, 1860
Henry J. Adams was in Washington, D. C., as a special agent of Kansas Territory attempting to convince the U.S. Congress to pay claims for damages suffered by Kansas citizens…
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Date: November 17, 1857
Writing from Wyandotte City, Kansas Territory, Joseph Pomeroy Root reported that Governor Robert J. Walker had passed by Wyandotte City that morning on a steamer and was bound for Washington,…
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Date: August 25, 1860
From Cottonwood Falls, Kansas Territory, J. B. Hodgin writes Samuel N. Wood about whiskey that was reportedly “supplied” to the Kaws at Cottonwood Falls on August 23, 1890. Hodgin states…
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Date: August 6, 1860
Writing from Lecompton, Kansas Territory, Robert S. Stevens contacts Samuel L. Wood about an issue of grave concern to the people of Council Grove–“the Kaw Treaty,” which had been taken…
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These handdrawn floor plans for the Eldridge Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas Territory, show the room layout and approximate size of the rooms on the first and second floors. The Eldridge…
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Date: May 6, 1860
As in his earlier letter to Samuel Wood of April 22, A. J. Beach, of Beach Valley, Kansas Territory, describes his Cow Creek bridge dispute with William Edwards and O.…
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Date: May 4, 1860
Perhaps in response to a question by Wood about an advertisement for agents, Elias Clark of St. Louis, Missouri, writes that a prospective agent could buy a machine for $35…
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Date: April 22, 1860
Writing from Beach Valley (Rice County) in Kansas Territory, A. J. Beach requests Samuel Wood’s legal advice with regard to Beach’s options in a bridge dispute. It seemed that Beach…
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Date: April 14, 1860
This letter from Geery and Butterfield of Junction City, Kansas Territory, addresses the issue of preemption and the method of protesting a claim. It is not entirely clear what is…
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Date: April 2, 1860
Robert S. Stevens, a Democratic attorney who had a variety of financial interests in Kansas during the 1850s and 1860s, writes this letter to Samuel N. Wood from Washington, D.C.…
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Date: March 28, 1860
Marcus J. Parrott, the Kansas Territory’s delegate to Congress, writes Samuel N. Wood from Washington, D.C., about several issues, including the establishment of mail routes and railroad matters. Regarding the…
