Letters : Albion, Mich., and Winthrop, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., to F.G. Adams, [Topeka, Kan.], 1884-1899.

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Letters : Albion, Mich., and Winthrop, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., to F.G. Adams, [Topeka, Kan.], 1884-1899.

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Photostatic reproductions of five letters, 1884-1899, from Mrs. M.D. Colt to F.G. Adams, historian, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, and fellow Kansas pioneer, regarding her book, Went to Kansas, and her life since its publication in 1862.

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