Letter fragments, Portrait
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Description
- Title
- Letter fragments, Portrait
- Creator
- Darrach, Bartow, 1831-1863
- Contributor
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Brown, John, 1800-1859
Darrach family
Darrach, Helena White
Darrach, James, 1806-1889
Darrach, William Bradford, 1836-1909 - Published / Created
- 1843 and n.d.
- Abstract
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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.
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.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA MSS S-1821
- Collection Title
- Bartow Darrach letters
- Collection / Other Creator
- Darrach, Bartow, 1831-1863
- Collection Date
- 1852-1856
- Container / Volume
- Box 1 | Folder 6
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Correspondence
Manuscripts
Portraits - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
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Brown, John, 1800-1859
Darrach family
Darrach, Helena White
Darrach, James, 1806-1889
Darrach, William Bradford, 1836-1909 - Subject (Topic)
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Frontier and pioneer life
Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Bartow Darrach Letters. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 4046238
- Object ID (OID)
- 16710141