United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John Sullivan Dwight Letter
Collection
Identifier: MS L34 Dwight
Scope and Content Note
Letter written from Berlin, to Charles Sumner, urging his influence in obtaining appointment of Alexander W. Thayer to diplomatic post in Prussia; letter also pertains to personal, political, and other affairs in Prussia and in the United States, and to Henry Wilson (Jeremiah Jones Colbath), Robert Apthorp, and Joseph Albert Wright.
Dates:
ca 1860-1869
Andrew Jackson Letters
Collection
Identifier: MS L34 Jackson
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...
Dates:
1830; 1831
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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Andrew Jackson Letters
S. P. Woodruff Letter
Collection
Identifier: MS L34 1840 Woodruff
Scope and Content Note
Letter dated Van Buren December 23, 1840 from S. P. Woodruff to "Mr. Wood," to collect the cash equivalent of a hat owed to Woodruff by Wood in accordance of a wager on the Pennsylvania election returns.
Dates:
1840
Found in:
Special Collections Department
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S. P. Woodruff Letter