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Alexander H. Stephens papers
Collection
Identifier: LG-41
Scope and Contents
The Alexander H. Stephens papers consist of microfilm containing primarily correspondence. The letters concern Stephens' Georgia plantation and include some letters from his slaves. The correspondence is especially concerned with politics, in Georgia, on the national level, and in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Topics include secession, the formation of the Confederacy, the progress of the war, the eventual defeat of the Confederate armies, and Reconstruction.The Stephens...
Dates:
1784 - 1886
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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- Blair, Francis Preston, 1791-1876 1
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- Lamar, L. Q. C. (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus), 1825-1893 1
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- Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894 1
- Robinson, Sara T. L. (Sara Tappan Lawrence), 1827-1911 1
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