Manuscripts

Cyrus Kurtz Holliday's A sketch: Why the townsite of Topeka was selected, by whom it was selected..., etc

Description: An article on the founding of Topeka; copy by made Holliday's son Charles King Holliday.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1883 November 26
Call number: mssHolliday
Creator: Holliday, Cyrus Kurtz (1826-1900)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. George W. Burpee, May 1960.
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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters (52 original manuscript letters and 86 photocopies of typescripts), documents, 24 photographs, and a scrapbook related to the life and business activities of Cyrus K. Holliday. There are materials related to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company and its business matters, the development of the city of Topeka, and politics in Kansas.

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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday papers

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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday correspondence

Manuscripts

Letters to Mary Dillon Holliday and children.

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Cyrus Kurtz Holliday correspondence

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Copies of typescripts of letters.

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Printed material and Scrapbook

Manuscripts

Includes booklet "Cyrus K. Holliday" and scrapbook kept by Lillie Holliday Kellam regarding Cyrus Kurtz Holliday and Topeka, Kansas.

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Helen Hunt Jackson collection of manuscripts and letters

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts and letters related to Helen Hunt Jackson. The autograph manuscripts include 21 poems and three prose works entitled: "Bits of Travel at Home," "One Woman and Sunshine," a draft of an article on Jeanne C. Smith Carr and the founding of Carmelita, her home in Pasadena, California, and "The Story of Clotilde Danarosch." The largest part of the correspondence is made up of Helen Hunt Jackson's letters to William Hayes Ward, the editor of the New York Independent. Also included are seventeen letters to Ray Palmer and his wife Ann Maria Waud Palmer; thirteen letters to Mary Elizabeth Fowler, the first government schoolteacher at Soboba in the San Jacinto Valley; four letters to Henry Chandler Bowen, the editor and proprietor of the Independent; four letters to Mrs. D. J. Whipple who ran a boarding house in San Diego and later Los Angeles; two letters to Richard Egan, a Los Angeles County supervisor; and two letters by William Sharpless Jackson and Charles C. Painter.

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