Manuscripts
1845
- Description
- Correspondence primarily relating to Michigan politics and the Democratic party, including material on boundary disputes, statehood, land speculation, tariffs, westward movement, etc.; state and national elections, with particular emphasis on Democratic conventions; Indian affairs, U.S. postal service in Michigan, and the National Census of 1860. Correspondents include John Steward Barry, Lewis Cass, Alpheus Felch, Cave Johnson, Robert McClelland, Jacob Thompson, and William Woodbridge. Also included are a few documents, and an engraved portrait of John Sherman Bragg.
- Production date
- 1835-1876.
- Call number
- mssBG
- Provenance
- Gift of Katherine Hastings, June 1948.
- Restrictions
