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Gerrit Smith Letter, Peterboro, N.Y., November 18, 1845., Gerrit Smith Nov 1845

Gerrit Smith Letter, Peterboro, N.Y., November 18, 1845., Gerrit Smith

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Smith writes a friendly letter to an unclear addressee.


John Hale Letter Acknowledging A Request To Speak At The Mercantile Library Association, September 14, 1845., John P. Hale Sep 1845

John Hale Letter Acknowledging A Request To Speak At The Mercantile Library Association, September 14, 1845., John P. Hale

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Hale writes that he has been so "harrassed with business" that he has "had but little time to attend to any thing else, or even to think of aught beside." "I have had to continue almost alone against the whole pack of profligate & venal newspaper Editors set upon me."


John C. Calhoun Letter To William H. Rogers, John C. Calhoun Feb 1845

John C. Calhoun Letter To William H. Rogers, John C. Calhoun

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Calhoun was the Secretary of State at the time of this letter. He commands the suspension of the trial of Capt. Hiram Gray, who was accused of violating the slave trade suppression law.


Letter From Mary Custis Lee To Dr. Stabler Requesting Laudanum And Opodeldoc, No Date., Mary Custis Lee Dec 1844

Letter From Mary Custis Lee To Dr. Stabler Requesting Laudanum And Opodeldoc, No Date., Mary Custis Lee

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Mary Custis Lee asks for medicines on behalf of her mother Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis.