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Ellen Goodnow wrote to her husband, Isaac Goodnow, from Manhattan, Kansas Territory, briefly relating the news of a friend's sudden death. She attached a list of items she wished Isaac to purchase while he was in the East, which mostly consisted of clothing items, but also included a clock and a microscope.
Creator: Goodnow, Ellen Douglass Denison, 1812-1890
Date: July, 1859
Item Number: 3769
Call Number: Isaac Goodnow Coll. #357, Box 2 Folder 14
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 3769
Business and Industry - Labor - Domestic servants
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Educators
Business and Industry - Retail
Collections - Manuscript - Goodnow, Isaac
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Bluemont Central College
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Home and Family - Death and funerals
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Goodnow, Isaac T., 1814-1894
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Manhattan
Places - Counties - Riley
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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