Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed N.J. Eaton, St. Louis, to F. Kennett, about Douglas and his eye on the Presidential chair. “I wonder what Jeff Davis and other fire eaters will think to find themselves placed in the same category with Seward…and us old line Whigs, what shall we say? Is Mr. Douglas seeking to coat the Democratic pill with sugar. One man can overthrow Buchanan and that man is Stephen A. Douglas and I do not believe he will do it.”, 1859 Sept 11
Item — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection comprises papers of the Kennett and Frost families, including notes and receipts of the Kennett, White and Company, circa 1840; letters of D.M. Frost to his wife from Texas in 1852 regarding Indian wars and letters dated 1856 regarding the Sioux War; diary of Edwin Harrison, 1858, which concerns the social life of St. Louis; and Civil War letters of Ferdinand Kennett, Jr. (Confederate) to his parents, 1864. (The Kennett family left Selma Hall and moved to St. Louis during...
Dates:
1859 Sept 11