Typescript letter signed Phoebe W. Couzins, Washington, D.C., to Governor Herbert Hadley, Jefferson City, Missouri. (Letter written on illustrated stationery of the Riggs House.) Recounts the role her father, J.E.D. Couzins, played in the Committee of Public Safety and in creating the state seal and press during the Civil War. (6 pages) (includes typescript copy and typescript copy of note of Hamilton Gamble to J.E.D. Couzins, dated August 16, 1861), 1909 Feb 21

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Identifier: D00658

Staff Only

Typescript letter signed Phoebe W. Couzins, Washington, D.C., to Governor Herbert Hadley, Jefferson City, Missouri, December 15, 1910

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Couzins Family Papers contain papers relating to John E.D. Couzins’s efforts to hold Missouri in the Union during the Civil War, including letters, commissions, and a loyalty oath; papers relating to Mrs. Adaline Couzins’s work as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, including printed memorials to the U.S. Senate, dated March 27, 1888, praising her work; papers relating to Phoebe Couzins, including articles and addresses by her; correspondence and articles regarding Couzins family history; and photocopies of newspaper clippings, many of which appear to have been copied from a family scrapbook, mostly relating to J.E.D. Couzins and Phoebe Couzins.