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Correspondence relating to Christopher "Kit" Carson; personal letters from members of the
Carson family including bills of sale of slaves and correspondence regarding family slaves, land
papers, writings on religion, genealogical data; bills, notes, receipts, and memoranda concerning
the Santa Fe trade of William Carson (Howard County, Missouri) and the grocery business
continued by his son Thomas Carson; account books kept by members of the Carson family
including James Thomas, George H. and Frank Carson. Entries concern merchandise accounts,
livestock and produce records, slave records, religious writings and personal observations, 1839-
1882. Collection also includes personal, farm, and business account books of Thomas Carson
and James Thomas Carson in Fayette and Rocheport, Missouri; personal and farm expenses,
labor and grocery accounts, bank accounts, and cattle registries of Thomas Carson in Fayette and
Rocheport, 1856-1889; general merchandise ledgers and daybooks for general store in Fayette,
1872-1874; daybooks of general store in Rocheport, 1881-1882; and personal, farm, and
business accounts of James Thomas Carson in Rocheport, 1881-1910.
Cite as: Carson Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2308
Carson, James H. & William.
Land Patents, 1837 Nov 7 & 1859 Sept 1. 2 items
Collection contains two U.S. land patents: (1) patent for land granted to William Carson of
Washington County, Missouri, for land in Township 35 North of Range 2 East, in the district of
lands subject to sale at Jackson, Missouri, November 7, 1837, signed by President Martin Van
Buren, and (2) patent for land granted to James H. Carson of Washington County, Missouri, for
land in Township 36 North of Range 1 East, in the district of lands subject to sale at Jackson,
Missouri, September 1, 1859, signed by President James Buchanan.
Cite as: James H. & William Carson Land Patents, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A0245
Carson, William Glasgow Bruce (1881-1976).
Collection, 1818-1962. 3 boxes
William Glasgow Bruce Carson (1891-1976), whose maternal grandfather was William Carr
Lane, the first mayor of St. Louis, earned his bachelor and master of arts degrees in English from
Washington University in 1913 and 1916. He also studied journalism at Columbia University.
For 38 years he was a professor of English and dramatics at Washington University; more than
90 plays written by students in his class were eventually produced, and many of his former
students became theatrical successes, among them playwright Tennessee Williams, Broadway
producer David Merrick, and actress Mary Wickes. Mr. Carson was active for many years in the
Missouri Historical Society, and was given the society's Lifetime Award in 1965 for his many
books and articles on the cultural history of St. Louis and Missouri.
Letters (1821-1835) of Nathaniel Ewing, father of Mrs. William Carr Lane, concerning the
political issues of the 1820s, expressing some emphatic opinions about Andrew Jackson and
Thomas Hart Benton; letters of Susan Larkin to William Glasgow, 1830; letters in the 1850s
from Anna E. Lane, of Washington, D.C., to her sister Mrs. William Glasgow, describing the
fashions, matters at the Capitol, and activities of the U.S. Senate, which she visited almost daily;
correspondence between Anna and Sarah Lane (who lived with her mother in Europe during the
Civil War); correspondence with Madame Philippine Duchesne concerning the education of the
Lane daughters; items include lottery tickets; letters concerning conditions of the tobacco
industry (particularly the crop of 1850 in Howard County, Missouri); material relating to