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Amos Adams Lawrence papers
Collection
Identifier: LG-15
Scope and Contents
This collection contains five reels of microfilm consisting of Amos Lawrence's personal and business correspondence, legal papers, accounts, political tickets, newspaper clippings and other papers related to Lawrence's business, political, educational, and charitable interests. Subjects include New England Emigrant Aid Company; slavery; politics and education in Kansas, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts; New England manufacturing, the tariff; and national politics. Correspondents include George...
Dates:
1857 - 1859
Charles Robinson papers
Collection
Identifier: LG-10
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a reel of microfilm containing correspondence of Charles Robinson, first governor of Kansas, and his wife Sara, relating to Kansas and national politics. Among the correspondents are N. P. Banks, G. A. Crawford, J. W. Denver, John C. Fremont, Alfred Gray, Amos A. Lawrence, G. P. Lowrey, R. Z. Mason, William Phillips, J. P. Root, S. B. Stebbins, Charles Sumner, and Henry Wilson. Also included are two letters (1853, 1858) and a typewritten newspaper article (1858)...
Dates:
1850 - 1918
Isaac Tichenor Goodnow papers
Collection
Identifier: LG-11
Scope and Contents
This collection consists a reel of microfilm containing the correspondence of Isaac Tichenor Goodnow. The letters relate to the New England Emigrant Aid Company's project to send free-soil colonists to Kansas; the founding of Manhattan, Kansas; the Leavenworth Constitution; the founding of the Kansas State Agricultural College; and Kansas and national politics.(Michigan State University., Honhart, F. L., Jude, S. P., Howard, S. R., & Zito, A. (1976). A guide to the Michigan...
Dates:
1850 - 1863
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- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
- Kansas -- History 2
- Letters (correspondence) 2
- Public lands -- United States 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes 2
- Account books 1
- Commercial correspondence 1
- Education -- Massachusetts 1
- Education -- Wisconsin 1
- Education, Higher -- Kansas 1
- Ephemera 1
- Manhattan (Kan.) 1
- Massachusetts -- Politics and government 1
- Slavery -- United States 1
- Textile industry -- Connecticut 1
- Textile industry -- Massachusetts 1
- Textile industry -- New Hampshire 1
- Wisconsin -- Politics and government 1 ∧ less
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- Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 2
- Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 2
- Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905 1
- Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
- Free Soil Party (U.S.) 1
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