A rich archive of 119 letters by an employee of the Treasury Department in Washington D.C. in the 1850s, with extensive content on life and politics in Washington; the vast majority of these letters were written to the writer’s wife Martha in New Jersey. Born in Philadelphia, John W. C......
A compelling group of letters, all retained copies, written in response to the upcoming election of 1848 by a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Lewis Cass. Marshall argues for the removal of the Quartermaster General of New Orleans, Major Daniel D. Tompkins (1798–1863), whose scheming on behalf of Whig.....
A Reconstruction-era archive including a vitriolic anti-Reconstruction letter and a plea for character reference from a white banker embroiled in a bribery scandal with South Carolina’s first prominent Black politician. Thomas J. Robertson (1823–1897) was a South Carolina plantation and slave owner who supported the Union during the Civil War.....