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Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937. Papers of Edgar Watson Howe, 1884-1937.

Title: Papers of Edgar Watson Howe, 1884-1937.

The collection contains a page of manuscript from "The Story of a Country Town." Correspondence details the writing and printing of "The Story of a Country Town" and mentions Mark Twain's comments on the character "Big Adam." He also sketches the life of his father and describes his own boyhood, comments very briefly on H.L. Mencken, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas B. Macaulay, and critics Noble Prentis and John Alexander Martin, and mentions a trip to Florida. A magazine photograph of Howe is included.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

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Letter to George W. Martin, Lawrence, Kansas., July 16, 1873

Title: Letter to George W. Martin, Lawrence, Kansas. July 16, 1873

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.; Holograph.

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/3651877158 View

Correspondence, business forms, receipts, and petitions., 1862-1913

Title: Correspondence, business forms, receipts, and petitions. 1862-1913

John S. Gilmore was born in Rochester, New York, and moved with hisparents to the flourishing Kansas territorial region in 1857, They continually uprooted and re-established their home in various Kansas communities during John's adolescence, however. This collection is composed primarily of correspondence and business forms relating to John Gilmore's activities as a newspaper publisher, journalist, state legislator, and a confident of state governors.

ArchivalResource: 640 items.

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9863481280 View