From Florella Brown Adair to Samuel Lyle Adair and Emma Adair

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Title: From Florella Brown Adair to Samuel Lyle Adair and Emma Adair
Creator: Florella Brown Adair
Description: This letter, dated November 8, 1860, was written by Florella Brown Adair in Hudson, Ohio, to her husband Samuel Lyle Adair and daughter Emma Adair in Osawatomie, Kansas. Florella writes that she just returned to Hudson after a trip to Ashtabula, Geauga, and Portage Counties. She says that she will come home if necessary, but is reluctant to because of the present difficult times in Kansas. Florella adds that she came to Ohio “hoping to enjoy the society of my friends once more after being so long shut up in Kansas and I have so far not been disappointed.”
Date: November 8, 1860
Local Subject: Women
Presidential Election of 1860, Secession, and the War's Commencement
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
People: Florella Brown Adair
Geographic Subject: Miami County, Kansas
St. Joseph, Missouri
Jackson County, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Buchanan County, Missouri
Owning Organization: Kansas Historical Society
Location: Samuel Lyle & Florella Brown Adair Family Collection, Box 1: Folder 3
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