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- GLC#
- GLC03007.31-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 May 1892
- Author/Creator
- Adams, Anne Brown, 1843-1926
- Title
- to Alexander M. Ross
- Place Written
- Petrolia, California
- Pagination
- 6 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- Slavery & Anti-slavery
Discusses her sister, Ruth Brown Thompson and Ruth's husband Henry Thompson. Both have failing health. Argues that Kansas should give Henry a pension, since he fought under John Brown at the Battle of Black Jack to help keep Kansas a free state. Gives some details about the Brown family's time in Kansas, and emphasizes that her father began planning the Harpers Ferry raid before going to Kansas.
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