This letter concerns clothing sent from New England to "the poor of Kansas in 1856." R. A. Randlett of Topeka, Kansas Territory, wants to find out if Thayer's Emigrant Aid Company was involved in selling clothig that had been donated to go to needy settlers in Kansas. The clothing had been sold during the summer of 1857 "on a years time," according to Randlett, and now some men were trying to collect for it.