![1860 “Bleeding Kansas” Letter.]. Lorenzo Dow Round](/pictures/thumb/5872_1.jpg?v=1586262483)
A letter written from Kansas Territory on the state of politics at the time of the quest for statehood, the bloodless “Battle of Paris,” the Wyandotte Constitution, and John Brown. Originally from Herkimer County, New York, Lorenzo Dow Round (1813–1877) apparently settled in Kansas some time in the 1850s. Responding.....
A compelling, unrecorded film-script for a movie-that-never-was dramatizing the infamous assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico, with twenty-nine recommended changes in manuscript. In 1958, Hollywood director of low-budget Western films George Sherman (1908–1991) was in Mexico shooting the movie The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) when a journalist.....
![A letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania in pursuit of a runaway slave.]. Thomas Contee Worthington](/pictures/thumb/5142_1.jpg?v=1560464239)
A brief letter written by a former U. S. Representative from Maryland to the Governor of Pennsylvania on behalf of a slave-owner whose slave has gone missing. Attorney Thomas Contee Worthington (1782–1847) here writes to sitting Governor of Pennsylvania George Wolf (1777–1840) on behalf of one Mr. McGill, a farmer.....