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Correspondence - Land Commissioners' out-letters, 1858-1861

 File — Box: 112, Folder: 826-827
Identifier: CB&Q 8 H3

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

Includes correspondence (much in letterpress copybooks), Land contracts and applications, journals, deeds, and miscellaneous materials related to land sales. Land commissioners' out-letters are in 21 boxes of letterpress copybooks, and there is some overlapping of dates within the volumes. Contract numbers are not contiguous; there is a gap between contract numbers 2000 and 10099, 14599 and 20400, and 20599 and 21100. Contracts for swamp lands are in their own numerical sequence after the main sequence of land contracts.

Dates

  • Creation: 1858-1861

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company Records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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