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Henry Wetherbee letter to Schuyler Colfax
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C.M. Hawley letter to Schuyler Colfax
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Letter from Judge C.M. Hawley in Salt Lake City to Vice President Schuyler Colfax, alerting him that the people of Utah had "no confidence" in the ability of the Godbeite movement under E.L.T. Harrison and William S. Godbe to solve the "evils" in the territory, and that they looked to "Congress alone for...relief."
mssHM 16694
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Henry Prince letter to Edward Davis Townsend
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In this letter to Edward Davis Townsend, Prince reports of the destruction by fire of the ship "America" near Crescent City, California. The cargo was saved but the ship's stores were lost. No lives were lost in the accident. The fire appears to have started in the coal bunker in the ship's lower hold, but as Prince writes, "from what cause is a profound mystery."
mssHM 40686
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Letters to C: Alden Chester, Schuyler Colfax, Caleb Cushing
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A collection of approximately 6000 items from 1815 to 1936, the collection consists of Francis Lieber's correspondence, notes and other manuscripts and published materials accumulated in the preparation of his works during his political and academic career. The collection contains articles, essays, remarks, correspondence, volumes, commonplace books, research files, printed material, and ephemera. The manuscript material often contains various drafts, with supporting research and subject files; the correspondence contains personal and family letters and a large amount of professional correspondence. Correspondents include, among others, his wife Matilda (Mathilde) Lieber, other Lieber family members, Samuel Austin Allibone, Edward Bates, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Simon Greenleaf, Henry Wager Halleck, George Stillman Hillard, ⁹douard Laboulaye, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, Charles Sumner, Martin Russell Thayer, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Subjects in the collection include political science and theory; constitutional history; political economy; international law; philosophy and history of civilization; penology, including Lieber's association with the prison reform movement; education, particularly college and university administration; United States and European politics; antebellum debates and campaigns; slavery and abolitionism; politics of the Civil War, including problems of the citizenship of African-Americans, immigrants, and former Confederates; constitutional powers of the President and Congress; Republican Party, especially its radical wing; military aspects of the Civil War as reflected in Lieber's correspondence with Halleck; reconstruction, including plans for codification of international law; and Lieber's service with the United States-Mexican Claims Commission.
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William Porter letter to J. M. Blackerby
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Porter writes to Blackerby about the surveying of territorial roads in Oregon, and advises him on where to send the two plots Porter has made. One should be sent to Benjamin F. Harding, Secretary of the Oregon Territory, and the other to the county auditor. Porter is unsure if the Secretary requires one, but he figures "it will do no harm to make such return."
mssHM 17380
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Joseph Hooker letter to Ogden Hoffman
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Hooker encloses a copy of "the report of my first battle," which he says will be withheld from publication for a few days but it will "be the cause of no little excitement." He also writes that "I have a glorious division."
mssHM 19014
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Henry Huntley Haight letter to Elihu Benjamin Washburne
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Haight introduces Mrs. Morse, the wife of California physician Dr. J. F. Morse, "one of our most distinguished and successful physicians." She is visiting France, and Haight hopes she is extended "any courtesies which it may be customary." Printed letterhead of the State of California Executive Department.
mssHM 21350