Manuscripts

Thomas Ritchie letter to James K. Polk

Description: Autograph letter signed. Is sending reports of Free Soil Party meetings at St. Louis and New York. Includes autograph note by Polk on docketed envelope. Enclosures referred to in letter are not included. (2 pages)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1848 October 4
Call number: HM 28836
Creator: Polk, James K (1795-1849)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. James W. Fertig, 1949.
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James K. Polk notes on Washington Union article

Manuscripts

Autograph notes initialed on docketed envelope. Includes clipping of the Washington Union article, which pertains to the Wilmot Proviso. (2 pages)

HM 28832

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Arthur P. Bagby, Washington, D.C., letter to the people of Alabama

Manuscripts

Contemporary copy taken from a Mobile newspaper of an open letter regarding the annexation of Texas, 1845 November 15. Also includes autograph note by Polk on docketed envelope, 1848 October 11. (32 pages)

HM 28820

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Sarah Childress Polk, Nashville, letter to Occie Brooks, St. Louis

Manuscripts

Autograph letter, undated, with note of Brooks' address. (3 pages) Also includes letter from Occie Brooks to Sarah Childress Polk, February 25, with envelope postmarked 1888. (4 pages)

HM 28835

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Translated extract from Journal des Debats, 1849 February 11

Manuscripts

Translated extract from the French newspaper Journal des Debats regarding the United States, sent to Polk by George Bancroft. Also includes autograph note by Polk on docketed envelope, 1849 April 6. (6 pages)

HM 28839

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James K. Polk papers

Manuscripts

This collection primarily consists of correspondence and notes of James K. Polk, dating from 1844 to 1849, and correspondence of his wife Sarah Childress Polk, dating from 1883 to 1889; a 19th century copy of Polk's 1849 will is also present. Polk's correspondence discusses politics, plans for his presidency, and the collectorship of New York. His notes on newspaper articles concern Martin Van Buren; Benjamin Tappan, Francis P. Blair and the annexation of Texas; and the Wilmot Proviso. The collection also contains several newspaper articles from 1846 regarding the Oregon boundary dispute, a copy of Senator Arthur Bagby's 1845 open letter to the people of Alabama concerning the annexation of Texas, and an 1849 extract from a French newspaper about events in the United States. Sarah Childress Polk's correspondence primarily concerns biographical sketches of herself and her late husband, with several letters from George Bancroft. In addition, the collection contains a note regarding a Congressional report on title endorsed by James Madison, 1790.

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Sarah Childress Polk, Nashville, letters to James Grant Wilson, New York

Manuscripts

Two autograph letters signed, 1888 February 27 and February 28?. (6 pages total) Also includes items relating to Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, including three letters to Polk from Wilson and J.W. Weidemeyer, 1888 February, genealogical notes, and a form.

HM 28834

Thomas Ritchie letter to James K. Polk

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