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Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, New York, letter to William P. Van Ness, New York, New York :
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Van Buren requests Hawthorne arrange for him a shipment of Scotch oatmeal from Liverpool, England (Hawthorne served as U.S. consul at Liverpool during the Franklin Pierce administration).
mssHM 43230
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Letter from Van Buren as secretary of state to the governor of Mississippi seeking information on incorporated colleges in his state. Printed circular letter, filled in and signed.
mssHM 4695
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Letter to the New York State Comptroller regarding the possible stock takeover of "our Bank," presumably the New York State Bank.
mssHM 23019
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Is sending her a "very eloquent" address by his friend Mr. Gilpin (possibly Henry D. Gilpin).
mssHM 4694
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Is sending seeds and writings to her and her mother.
mssHM 39926
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This collection contains 44 letters written by William Herries to his English relatives during his journey across the Atlantic Ocean to New York and his travels around America including Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Kentucky, the Indiana and Louisiana territories, New Orleans, and Spanish Florida. Herries writes about people he meets including President Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, James Wilkinson, and John Jacob Astor. He also describes his various economic endeavors including attempts as a fur trader, general merchant, trader of enslaved persons, and land speculator before his acquisition and operation of the Montesano plantation near Fort Baton Rouge and his eventual ruin following the short-lived West Florida Republic. There is a note from Charles Herries from approximately 1816 stating that he had recently received word that William Herries had died three or four years previously. An unsigned and undated note lists all of Herries's stops from New York to New Orleans.
mssHerries