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David Brydie Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-606
Abstract
Incoming and outgoing correspondence (including 42 letters from Georgia politician William H. Crawford, 1808-1822), mainly covering Mitchell’s two tenures as Georgia governor and during his appointment by President Madison as Creek Indian agent, 1817-1821. Content concerns national and local politics, foreign affairs, military matters and the approaching War of 1812, the Yazoo land fraud, Florida history, attitudes and actions towards African-Americans and Indians, and Mitchell’s attempts to...
Dates:
1777-1843; Majority of material found within 1805-1829
Herbert R. Strauss collection of autograph letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-6A 82
Abstract
The writers include: Alexander Hamilton, George Wythe, General Lafayette, George Washington, Paul Revere, John Hancock, Benjamin Rush, Patrick Henry, John Lay, Richard Peters, Andrew Jackson, and Levi Lincoln.
Dates:
1775-1840