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In this letter to her cousins Annie and Elizabeth Simerwell at the Potawatomi Board Manual Labor School in the Kansas Territory, Rebecca Simerwell states that she is pleased to hear that her cousins are safe "in these troubled times and your particularly dangerous situation." Rebecca is concerned for her cousins and their parents because "the accounts we hear from Kansas are prefectly horrifying too bad, almost to believe."
Creator: Simerwell, Rebecca
Date: August 31, 1856
Item Number: 219222
Call Number: Robert Simerwell Coll. #500, Box 3 Correspondence and reports, 1856 July-August
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 219222
Collections - Manuscript - Simerwell, Robert W.
Community Life - Religion - Missionaries - Potawatomi Baptist Manual Labor School
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable People - Simerwell, Robert
Places - Historic sites - Pottawatamie Mission
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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