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Le Baron Russell and Charles J. Higginson, members of the New England Emigrant Aid Company Executive Committee, wrote from Boston to Charles H. Branscomb in Kansas. Russell and Higginson informed Branscomb, as agents for the company, that he would oversee the rebuilding of the Free State Hotel in Lawrence, Kansas Territory. The hotel had been destroyed during the sack of Lawrence on May 21, 1856.
Creator: Russell, Le Baron
Date: October 1, 1856
Item Number: 1826
Call Number: New England Emigrant Aid Company, Manuscript Coll. No. 624, Box 1, Folder 8.
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1826
Business and Industry - Lodging - Hotels
Collections - Manuscript - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Other States - Massachusetts - Boston
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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