
<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, Tovey, R. [Robert]  A. to My Dear Wife [Eliza (Matthew) Tovey]</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator)</dc:creator>
  <dc:description>Robert Atkins Tovey, Sr., an Englishman traveling to Kansas Territory, wrote to his wife Eliza (Matthew) Tovey, at their home it Albany, New York.  Tovey recounted his travel experiences by steamboat and rail. Throughout, he provided detailed scenic descriptions from New York, the Great Lakes, Detroit, Illinois, St. Louis, and the Missouri River. Tovey, coming into contact with slavery on his journey, included brief commentary on the subject.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101547). TKO topic guide: Immigration and Early Settlement&gt;The Economy&gt;Water transportation</dc:description>
  <dc:date>circa 1854</dc:date>
  <dc:type>StillImage</dc:type>
  <dc:format>electronic</dc:format>
  <dc:format>image/tiff</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>ku-kansascollection:983</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/983</dc:identifier>
  <dc:relation>aspace_5e3f3dcb3d69c835218e18f38b2f9b8d</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Robert Atkins Tovey, Senior collection--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4812286722--RH MS P185</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>This work is free of known copyright restrictions.</dc:rights>
</oai_dc:dc>