PLATTE CITY, [Mo.], March 4, 1855. DEAR HUNTER: The Elections in Kansas came off on the 30th ult, the pro slavery ticket prevailed every w...

Steamboat Cataract aground on a bank in the Missouri River October 9, 1856 I know you would enjoy going to Kansas, for it is as gen...

Nebraska City , September 16,1856 I know you will particularly like a word from the Border. . . . Various camping grounds are scattered...

August 29 We have excellent news from Kansas. . . . Our men are nicely settled in the northern part of Kansas, which is more peaceful. ...

[May 17, 1860.] I have to-day two letters from you and one from Frank — your letter, May 9 and Frank's May 12, and have telegraphed...

Lawrence , K. T., Jan. 23, 1859. Dear Sir , — I have been able to see Whitman but once since I got your previous letter, and then he pr...

Osawatomie, K. T., Oct. 2, 1857. Mr. J. B. Dear Friend , — Yours of September 5 was received yesterday, having been mailed at Lawren...

Lawrence , Oct. 24, 1857. My Dear Friend ,—Your first two messengers are sick at Tecumseh. I helped them start back with the informati...

Tabor, Iowa , July 6, 1857. John Brown , Esq . Dear Sir , — I arrived here to-day from Lawrence, bringing $150 minus my expenses up a...

Boston, Mass ., April 8, 1857. My Dear Sir , — Your favor of the 15th March, and that of friend Holmes of the 16th, I have just receive...

State Kansas Aid Committee Rooms, Boston, Sept. 30, 1856. Dear Sir , — At a meeting of this committee it was voted. That the arms pur...

We have made the rifles subject to Captain Brown's order, as we wrote you. From Mr. Winchcll's account, we conclude that you will f...

State Kansas Aid Committee Room, Boston, Jan. 7, 1857. Received of George L. Stearns, Chairman of the Massachusetts Kansas Aid Commit...

Osawatomie , Oct. 12, 1857. Captain Brown. Dear Sir , — Learning that there is a messenger in town from you, I will take the opportun...

Memorandum of articles wanted as an outfit for fifty volunteers to serve under my direction during the Kansas war, or for such specified tim...

THE LAWRENCE FORAY. I well know, that, on or about the 14th of September last, a large force of Missourians and other ruffians, numberi...

Lawrence, Kansas , Aug. 24, 1856. Dear Brother , — You probably learn of the state of affairs here in Kansas as well as I can describe...

The Fight Of Osawatomie. Early in the morning of the 30th of August the enemy's scouts approached to within one mile and a half of ...

Tabor, Fremont County, Iowa , Aug. 27, 1856. Dear Mother , — The last news we had from Kansas, father was at Lawrence, and had charge o...

August 19. The affair last mentioned was conducted with such expedition that the United States troops, located about a mile off, had no...