
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>Letter, Robert Gilbert to My dear Parents</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator)</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>Robert Gilbert, a young Englishman studying at Yoxford Academy in England anticipating the Christmas holiday, wrote to his parents summarizing his studies of the past half-year.  He was born in Sibton, Suffolk County, England.  After graduating from Yoxford, he became a gardener in the Crystal Palace Gardens in London.  Gilbert emigrated to the U.S. in 1855 and began farming nine miles north of Lawrence the same year.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101585).</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1849-12-05</dc:date>
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  <dc:format>electronic</dc:format>
  <dc:format>image/tiff</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>ku-kansascollection:1069</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/1069</dc:identifier>
  <dc:relation>aspace_7d2fc061c7ea6e06238471f15b82e830</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Robert L. Gilbert papers--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/0204778161--RH MS P238</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>This work is free of known copyright restrictions.</dc:rights>
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