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Author Averill, Thomas Fox, 1949- author.

Title Found documents from the life of Nell Johnson Doerr : a novel / Thomas Fox Averill
Edition First edition
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Letter from Solomon Doerr: Monday, September 10, 1854 -- Unsent Letter: Thursday/Saturday, September 20/22, 1854 -- Diary Entry: Saturday, October 28, 1854 -- Letter to Mother Jo: Monday, November 13, 1854 -- Diary Entry: Monday, May 14, 1855 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Wednesday, June 20, 1855 -- Letter to Sister Mary: June 8, 1856 -- Letter to Mother Jo: Saturday, July 10, 1858 -- Diary Entry: Monday, December 5, 1859 -- Diary Entry: August 22, 1863, Day after Quantrill's Raid (Friday, August 21, 1863) -- Diary Entry: Sunday, August 23, 1863 -- Diary Entry: Monday, September 4, 1863 -- Diary Entry: Sunday, September 27, 1863 -- Diary Entry: Wednesday, September 30, 1863 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, October 1, 1863 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Sunday, October 18, 1863 -- Probate Notice and Land Sales -- Diary Entry: Sunday, August 21, 1864 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Monday, December 12, 1864 -- Diary Entry: Sunday, July 16, 1865 -- Diary Entry: Sunday, February 11, 1866 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, September 20, 1866 -- Diary Entry: Saturday, October 27, 1866 -- Letter from Brother Hiram: Thursday, January 31, 1867 -- Letter to Brother Hiram: Saturday, February 16, 1867 -- Diary Entry: Tuesday, April 2, 1867 -- Letter to Hugh Cameron: Saturday, May 25, 1867 -- Diary Entry: Monday, June 17, 1867 -- Diary Entry: Tuesday, July 2, 1867 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Saturday, August 10, 1867 -- Editor's Note -- Diary Entry: Thursday, November 14, 1867 -- Diary Entry: Friday, May 15, 1868 -- Note from Lydia Stone: Monday, August 10, 1868 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, September 3, 1868 -- Diary Entry: Tuesday, September 15, 1868 -- Diary Entry: Monday, October 26, 1868 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Monday, December 21, 1868 -- Diary Entry: Saturday, January 2, 1869 -- Diary Entry: Wednesday, January 13, 1869
Diary Entry: Thursday, January 14, 1869 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Friday, February 12, 1869 -- Letter to Samuel Winston: Saturday, May 1, 1869 -- Diary Entry: Sunday, May 2, 1869 -- Note Found in Diary: [No date] -- Letter from Hugh Cameron: Thursday, June 10, 1869 -- Diary Entry: Tuesday, July 20, 1869 -- Letter to Samuel Winston: Wednesday, October 27, 1869 -- Sample of Nell's Log, with Drawings: Thursday, September 23, 1869 -- Letter from Dr. Smith, Paleontologist: Monday, January 3, 1870 -- Letter to Dr. Smith: Thursday, March 3, 1870 -- Letter from Sally Miller: May 24, 1870 -- Letter to Sally Miller: Friday, July 31, 1870 -- Diary Entry: Sunday, August 21, 1870 -- Letter to Dr. Smith: Thursday, September 15, 1870 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Monday, November 28, 1870 -- Note to Jacob Whitaker: Friday, March 31, 1871 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, April 13, 1871 -- Note to Hugh Cameron: Friday, August 11, 1871 -- Diary Entry: Friday, September 1, 1871 -- Letter to Dr. Smith: Friday, October 13, 1871 -- Letter to Mother Jo: Friday, June 7, 1872 -- Diary Entry: Tuesday, August 6, 1872 -- Letter to Sally Miller: Tuesday, September 3, 1872 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, May 1, 1873 -- Diary Entry: Saturday, May 17, 1873 -- Diary Entry: Monday, June 2, 1873 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, April 30, 1874 -- Letter from Sally Miller: Tuesday, August 4, 1874 -- Sunday Lesson, Prepared for the Ladies of the Unitarian Church: August 1875 -- Letter from Sally Miller: Tuesday, March 14, 1876 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Friday, April 21, 1876 -- Letter from Hugh Cameron: Thursday, June 1, 1876 -- Letter to Stepfather Robert Johnson: Monday, June 26, 1876 -- Diary Entry: Tuesday, July 4, 1876, US Centennial -- Letter from Mother Jo: Thursday, September 7, 1876 -- Diary Entry: September 30, 1876 -- Diary Entry: Wednesday, March 21, 1877 -- Diary Entry: Monday, July 30, 1877
Diary Entry: Sunday, February 8, 1878 -- Letter from Sally Miller: Sunday, October 13, 1878 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Wednesday, September 17, 1879 (After the September 15/16 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of Lawrence) -- Diary Entry: Saturday, November 29, 1879 -- Letter to Sally Miller: Thursday, October 14, 1880 -- Letter from Sally Miller: Monday, May 2, 1881 -- Letter to Sally Miller: Tuesday, May 17, 1881 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, June 30, 1881 -- Diary Entry: Wednesday, December 6, 1882 -- Letter to Sally Miller: Wednesday, February 21, 1883 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, August 21, 1884 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Wednesday, June 10, 1885 -- Diary Entry: Saturday, October 3, 1885 -- Notes: November 17-19, 1886 -- Diary Entry: Sunday, November 21, 1886 -- Letter from Sally Miller: Friday, April 15, 1887 -- Diary Entry: Thursday, October 13, 1887 -- Letter from J. L. Smith: Monday, September 24, 1888 -- Diary Entry: Friday, October 28, 1888 -- Diary Entry: Tuesday, January 15, 1889 -- Letter to Sister Mary: Tuesday, January 29, 1889 -- Letter from Brother Hiram and Sister Mary: Wednesday, June 12, 1889 -- Letter to Jacob Johnson: Thursday, August 15, 1889 -- Letter to Mother Jo: Friday, February 14, 1890 -- Diary Entry: Wednesday, April 30, 1890 -- Letter from Sister Mary: Saturday, July 5, 1890 -- Diary Entry: Tuesday, July 22, 1890 -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments
Summary Not just epistolary, this novel is archival, told entirely through journals, letters, photos, drawings, notes, and clippings left behind by Nell Doerr, who lived in Lawrence, Kansas, between 1854 and 1889
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Subject Lawrence Massacre, Lawrence, Kan., 1863 -- Fiction
SUBJECT Kansas -- Fiction
Subject Kansas
Kansas -- Lawrence
Genre/Form Epistolary fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Epistolary fiction.
Historical fiction.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017040294
ISBN 9780826359315
0826359310