Stevens, Robert S. Manuscript Collection
Coverage:
1870–1875
Source:
Papers, .25 foot
Description
Railroad manager. Typescripts of letters to and from Robert S. Stevens regarding Stevens’s management of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad, of which he was general manager. Included in the collection is a letter to Stevens from President U. S. Grant regarding a trip Grant made from St. Louis, Missouri, to Springfield, Missouri, and Indian Territory. The Western History Collections also holds a more complete set of the Stevens papers on microfilm. The original Stevens Family Papers are in the Division of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York.