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Box 1

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Contains 51 Results:

Badeau, Adam to "Dear Porter" (Gen. Horace Porter) (2 letters), 1878-1879

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Contains primarily incoming correspondence received while Babcock served as private secretary to President Grant, with a large portion of the letters concerning Grant’s attempted annexation of Santo Domingo and Babcock’s Whiskey Ring trial. Many of the letters have a penciled draft of Babcock’s reply on verso. Also contains family correspondence, notably a series of courtship letters from Orville Babcock to Annie Campbell prior to their marriage. Some family correspondence extends beyond...
Dates: 1878-1879