Thursday, March 2, 1978
Letters yield historical insights
Staff Writer
By MARY-ANNE OLIVAR
Old days are within hands' reach when one reads the letters of famous and infamous people in the Kansas Collection of the Spencer Research Library.
The Kansas Collection on the second floor of Spencer Library, gives a cultural, intellectual and economic picture of Kansas from the 1830s to the present.
For example, one can relive the struggles and successes of 10th century settlers by studying materials from 10th-century buildings.
According to George Griffin, curator of the Kansas Collection, the Iso letters describe events from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s in Kansas and in other midwestern states, including Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa.
Buffalo skins apparently were abundant in the mid-1800s, as one of the members of the Isely family proved by buying one to send to his parents.
ALTHOUGH MONEY was scarce in those days, Isely wrote, he was being paid in cash for his work. And he paid $3 a week for meals.
Mitchell's journal gives a detailed account of his travels and the ways of life in the United States.
Looking through the Kansas Collections one can also find records of infamous outlaws such as Jesse James and Emmett Dalton.
The impressions of a Kanss traveler in the late 1870s are somewhat different from those of a traveler today, as Howard W. Mitchell's journal shows.
Dalton, the reformed outlaw, was apparently his change in the 1871. That year he wrote to a friend asking for a $100 loan to open a tail shop.
A letter written in 1897 concern the picture of William Clarke Quandt from New York.
His frequent and affectionate letters to his mother also show this face of his per-
I AM GOING into it as soon as possible."
The records of Jesse James, however, have been preserved by the University of Iowa.
"I am sure there is something to be made at it otherwise I would not feel like it."
The documents in the Kansas Collection are not only on display at West. More recent volumes will be available at various libraries.
Quantrill and his men raided Lawrence on August 21, 1863. They burned the town and
Newpaper clips about the Kansas artist
and her exhibitions describe her art and her
gallery in the United States.
THE NEW YORK Herald reviewed her work in 1928 and said, "Mary Hunton, whose work is shown in the San Jose Ad大厦, works with her in the West Village, and her skill with etching tools are classic."
Peggy Greene from the Topeka Capital praised Hunton in 1953.
But contrary to popular opinion, Quantrill was thought to be a gentle and considerate person. One letter praises those qualities in him.
"Mary Huntoon needs half a dozen lifetimes."
Huntoon was an instructor-therapist in art at the Winter Veterans Hospital, an art therapist at the Meninger Clinic and she also taught art in Washburn University.
Personal papers of Peggy Hull, the first
Hull recalled that when she asked the managing editor of the El Paso Times to go to Europe during World War I, "this glasses fell off and clattered to the floor."
woman war correspondent are in the collections.
ONE CAN LOOK through her press cards and special letters of introduction that were needed in war time and feel the thrill of those days.
In a farwell address, she said of her experience in Europe, "My wife and I'm very grateful to you."
"No one can ever take this—the greatest adventure of my life—from me."
Some of the original screenplays written by Langton Hughes and William Inge, a 1935 University of Kansas graduate, also are in the Kansas Collection.
Griffin said that most of the papers were uits to the Kansas Collections.
"We are always asking people for gifts," Griffin said. "In the last three years we have sold 30,000 items."
Many of the donors are KU graduates, Griffin said.
"It's amazing how many people who graduate from KU, or have gone to KU, know that."
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Dykes . . .
The fund has provided $181,000 for
DYKES SAID certain things were considered in the evaluation process.
"We question whether the funds are serving the maximum number of minority students, whether this is the best possible use of the funds to meet minority students' needs, and whether we can raise additional funds to meet the needs of their minority students," he said.
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"It is true that the program is evaluated annually, as we are always looking for ways to use Endowment funds to provide the resources needed for education, including minority students specifically."
"We will continue to evaluate this and other programs to continue maximum performance."
The only recent change that William Argerstein, vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, knew of was that one of the department's new endowment Association allocated its money.
minority post-baccalaureate students since 1972.
ARGERSINGER said that until two years
HE SAID he hoped students did not think that post-baccalaureate funds would be discontinued immediately or shifted to other uses, such as an undergraduate scholarship
agree three separate allocations we given to the law, social welfare and business schools.
Dykes said the Endowment Association's executive committee would meet later this month to decide on the scholarship's funding for next year.
However, the money has been awarded in a block sum the last two years. Argersinger said additional money also had been given to the graduate school.
Dykes has received a recommendation
from the Board for an interim vice chan-
ckler for general manager's allocation.
He said he received Shankel's recommendation Monday but did not know what he would recommend to the Endowment Association.
Committee approves library funds
The money will come from the state Board of Regents' educational building fund. The bill authorizes expenditures of $550,000 in the fiscal year beginning next July 1, plus $3.16 million for fiscal year 1980 and $2.51 million for fiscal 1981.
TOPEKA (AP)—A bill appropriating $6.22 million over the next three fiscal years for renovation and expansion of Watson Library at the University of Kansas was unanimously endorsed yesterday by the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
The KU library improvements, which sparked no controversy and little discussion, have been a success.
capital improvement project for the legislative session.
Dykes noted the KU book inventory had quadrupled during the last 25 years and now holds more than 10,000 titles.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett has recommended the project be appetted and also has asked for a $291,000 supplemental appropriation in the present fiscal year for immediate improvements in Watson and Spencer libraries to expand book space now.
Library throughout, to include removing walls and barriers which restrict use of space, and a rearrangement to improve efficiency in the library.
Chancellor Archie Dykes had appeared before the committee last Friday urging approval of the funds. He termed present suggestions "insufficient, satisfactory and noted that the university had barely the space called for in the Regents' guidelines for library 'space
The project also will include expanding stack space, upgrading all mechanical and electrical systems, improving access for handicapped people, bettering fire prevention and improving energy conservation.
The project calls for remodeling Watson
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