Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Correspondence - Personal: Clapp, John to James Clapp, 1849, 1852, 1853
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Small collection of letters relating to Julia B. Newberry and her relatives, 1832-1880 and also undated, plus letters of credit from Julia's bankers, 1872-1885. There is one letter from Julia's father, James Clapp, to Henry R. Mygatt in 1832, in which he discusses a conversation with President Jackson, the political climate in Washington, and his opinion on the threat of nullification in the south. A second letter from Clapp to Mygatt in 1852 contains Clapp's thoughts on the Wilmot Proviso...
Dates:
1849, 1852, 1853