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In this letter to his daughter Annie Simerwell, Robert Simerwell discusses the happenings at the Potawatomi Baptist Manual Labor School near present day Topeka, Kansas a year before the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Simerwell explains that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is expected back in April of 1854 to discuss treaties with the Native Indian tribes in the area, and he believes that "most of them will sell, and the whites will enter their country." The second page is a letter from Annie's mother about some of the daily chores.
Creator: Simerwell, Robert, 1786-1868
Date: November 21, 1853
Item Number: 219220
Call Number: Robert Simerwell Coll. #500, Box 3 Correspondence and reports, 1853 November-December
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 219220
Collections - Manuscript - Simerwell, Robert W.
Community Life - Religion - Missionaries - Potawatomi Baptist Manual Labor School
Date - 1850s - 1853
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Education
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Missions - Pottawatomie Baptist Mission
People - Notable People - Simerwell, Robert
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Thematic Time Period - Indian Territory, 1820 - 1854
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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