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Robert Allyn to Isaac Tichenor and Ellen Douglas Denison Goodnow

Dates: October 11, 1855

Creator: Allyn, Robert, 1817-1894

Robert Allyn wrote from Providence, Rhode Island, to his friends Isaac and Ellen Goodnow in Kansas Territory. Allyn, like Goodnow an educator, updated the couple on the construction of a new local Academy. He also reacted to news he had heard of political conditions in K.T., having found that "the papers are full of dreadful things about you horrid abolitionists in Kanzas", and asking him, "How do you contrive to live under the Missouri laws?" Showing himself to be a staunch Abolitionist as well, Allyn provides his own strong opinions and insights regarding the Kansas troubles. Allyn also advised that "getting up a few. . .free schools" would prompt a great rush of emigration from the Northern States to the Territory

  • Robert Allyn to Isaac Tichenor and Ellen Douglas Denison Goodnow
  • Robert Allyn to Isaac Tichenor and Ellen Douglas Denison Goodnow
  • Robert Allyn to Isaac Tichenor and Ellen Douglas Denison Goodnow
  • Robert Allyn to Isaac Tichenor and Ellen Douglas Denison Goodnow
Robert Allyn to Isaac Tichenor and Ellen Douglas Denison Goodnow