Scope and Content Note The collection consists of personal and professional papers created or collected by members of the Benjamin T. DuVal family. The DuVal family papers represent the combined collections of at least three of the six children of William DuVal, an early settler of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Benjamin, Catherine, and Susan DuVal were the creators and collectors of most of the papers which were afterwards passed on to Marie DuVal Johnston, the daughter of Benjamin DuVal and his second wife,...

Scope and Content Note Letters dated at Washington, D. C. April 19, 1830 and April 25, 1831, from President Jackson to, respectively, Samuel F. Hays at Nashville, Tennessee and the Reverend Hardy M. Cryer, near Gallatin, Tennessee. The earlier, one-page letter deals with personal affairs, principally with the care of Jackson's garden and his wife's grave at "The Hermitage." The second letter, of eight pages, discusses political affairs, especially the resignation of Martin Van Buren and John Henry Eaton from...