Catalog record based on preliminary inventory.
Contact Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado.
Maria Louise Richardson was born in England in about 1844. She was the daughter of Professor Charles Samuel Richardson (b. 1815; London, England) a civil and mining engineer. She later lived in Hot Sulphur Springs, Colo. during the Meeker Masacre (1879).
Repository also has: Charles S. Richardson papers (C MSS WH361): and materials related to the Meeker/White River Massacre: Utes' last stand at White River and Mill Creek, western Colorado in 1879 (C970.3 U893Loo), Nathan C. Meeker papers (C MSS WH1680), and the James B. Thompson papers (C MSS WH29).
Letters are fragile and deteriorating along edges; use copy of 1879 letter.
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