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James Griffing wrote from the steamboat New Lucy on the Missouri River to his fiancee, J. Augusta Goodrich, in Owego, New York. Griffing, a Methodist minister, was on his way back to New York to get married. He commented upon the concerns that Ms. Goodrich likely was experiencing as she prepared to leave her New York home to join him in Kansas Territory. Griffing tried to convince Ms. Goodrich that they would make a good home for themselves in Kansas. He also expressed the opinion that the "excitement upon the slavery question" in Kansas Territory was exaggerated, and that serious violence over the issue was unlikely.
Creator: Griffing, James S. (James Sayre), 1822-1882
Date: August 29, 1855
Item Number: 7617
Call Number: James Sayre Griffing Coll. #364 Box 1 Folder 5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 7617
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Religion - Ministers
Collections - Manuscript - Griffing, James Sayre
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Methodist
Date - 1854-1860 - 1855
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Murder
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Activities - Religious - Church attendance
Home and Family - Courtship and marriage - Courtship
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
Places - Other States - New York
Places - Rivers - Missouri
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation
Transportation - Water - Steamboats
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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