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Former Pennsylvania Representative Andrew Boden asks John Boyle, an attorney at the US Navy Office in Washington, to “procure for me” a copy of “the secret minutes of the convention, which framed the U. S. constitution.” As a member of Congress in 1818 when that body approved a resolution to...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-4
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
James Buchanan writes six letters to John Reynolds on a variety of different legal and political matters, including the Presidential elections of 1828 and 1844, Buchanan's experience living in Russia as the US minister, and increasing sectional tensions. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Business and Industry, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism
Format: Letters/Correspondence
James Buchanan writes to Samuel D. Ingham, Esquire, discussing a conflict between him and General Jackson which Buchanan is to address in the Lancaster Journal. He expresses concern over "the preservation of [his] own character." He claims in a subsequent letter that the "Jackson papers...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Economics and Finance, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes Thomas Elder and discusses a number of issues in two letters, including the health of Judge Duncan, the 1829 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, cities that a transcontinental road would pass through, a trial of six Tennessee militia men sentenced to...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, Health and Medicine, Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes to Arthur Shaaff, an attorney in Georgia, to share news about his family as well as discus legal and political issues. Taney notes that his two daughters, along with Shaaff's friends, are in Georgetown for Rebecca Key's wedding. In addition,...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-40
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney writes Arthur Shaaff, an attorney in Georgia, to offer advice about seeking an office in President-Elect Andrew Jackson's administration. "While nobody can undertake to say what course Genl. Jackson will take," Taney notes that Jackson's "friends hope...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-40
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes a letter from Washington, DC, and discusses several political issues in Pennsylvania, including the 1829 Gubernatorial election. Buchanan describes Isaac Barnard, a possible candidate for governor, as "a high minded, independent honest man" who will never "...
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F9
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes two letters to Senator Isaac D. Barnard to discuss political matters as well as console him for his defeat at the Harrisburg Convention. Transcripts included.
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Maryland Attorney General Roger Brooke Taney (Class of 1795) discusses President Andrew Jackson, Treasury Secretary Samuel D. Ingham, and party politics.
Location: I-Friends-2000-1
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes two letters to Colonel Isaac Wayne and shares political news, explains why midshipmen cannot be appointed, as well as speculates on possible candidates for the 1832 Presidential election. The politicians that Buchanan mentions include incumbent President...
Location: MC 1998.10
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Native Americans, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Representative James Buchanan writes to Hugh Hamilton and regarding Hamilton's mistake in publishing Buchanan's letters in the New York Inquirer. Even though Hamilton "transposed the order of time in which they were written and omitted that portion of the letter in regard to myself...
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F11
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
James Buchanan writes to James Humes regarding the "unpleasant circumstances attending my departure" from the United States, Pennsylvania Governor George Wolf's re-election, and increasing sectional tensions. Buchanan also describes his experience living in St. Petersburg as the United States...
Location: MC 1998.10, B1, F12
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism, Weather and Climate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Captain Jesse D. Elliot writes to Dickinson College trustee Isaac B. Parker regarding Elliot's belief that he expects to command the military expedition against South Carolina in the nullification crisis. Elliot also mentions the 1832 Presidential Election and hopes that General Andrew Jackson...
Location: I-SpahrB-1950-4
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Former President Andrew Jackson writes J. Southall to discus a letter that President John Tyler wrote to a "Govr. Branch" and explain what he believes the United States policy should be towards Great Britain. "It behoves [President Tyler] to meet now...
Location: I-SpahrB-1953-12
Subject: International Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1840-1859
Former President James Buchanan writes to a group of Democrats who live around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and explains his inability to attend their independence day celebration. "On this hollowed Anniversary, let us rejoice, that, through the intervention of Divine Providence, peace has once...
Location: MC 1998.10, B4, F10
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1860-1879
