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- Creator:
- Darrach, Bartow, 1831-1863
- Published / Created:
- 1843 and n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1821
- Collection Title:
- Bartow Darrach letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 6
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 115 ALS written by Bartow Darrach while living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kentucky; and Kansas Territory; most to his parents, James and Helena White Darrach, New York; his brother, William Bradford Darrach; and other family members in the East. Five letters are dated at Philadelphia, 1852-1853, and relate to the completion of Darrach's medical studies and his application to the United States Navy for an appointment as a medical officer. Approximately half of the letters are dated at Eddyville, Kentucky, 1853-1855, and concern Darrach's work in establishing a medical practice there. and Darrach moved to Kansas Territory in 1855; ca. fifty letters dated at Osawatomie, 1855-1856, contain a detailed narrative of the lives of settlers and events of the Kansas border war, including discussion of elections and constitutional conventions; events in Lawrence and other fighting between free soil and slavery advocates; and the killings at Pottawatomie by John Brown and the subsequent sack of Osawatomie. The letters are accompanied by an ink and watercolor portrait, 1843.
- Description:
- Gift of Charles and Lindley Eberstadt, 1971.
- Subject (Name):
- Brown, John, 1800-1859, Darrach family, Darrach, Helena White, Darrach, James, 1806-1889, and Darrach, William Bradford, 1836-1909
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life and Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letter fragments, Portrait
