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Georgia Congressmen: correspondence - Lanman collection, 1826-1868.

Title: Georgia Congressmen: correspondence - Lanman collection, 1826-1868.

The collection consists of a group of manuscripts containing biographical information on Georgia congressmen, both senators and representatives, assembled by Charles Lanman for his Dictionary of the United States Congress. The collection is made up of replies received by Lanman when he circularized all living past and present members of congress in the 1850s preparatory to issuing his book.The replies are mainly autobiographical and in the handwriting of the subject. The letters and manuscripts are from George Washington Crawford, Martin Jenkins Crawford, Nathaniel Greene Foster, Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Alfred Iverson, James Jackson, John William Jones, Thomas Graves Lawson, Peter Early Love, John H. Lumpkin, Charles Henry Prince, John William Henderson Underwood, Hiram Warner, C. P. Wellborn, Francis Willis, Augustus Romaldus Wright and Pierce Manning Butler Young. Other letters have been moved to their respective collections.

ArchivalResource: 48 items (0.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/288440197 View

Akerman, Amos Tappan, 1821-1880. Letter books of Amos Tappan Akerman [manuscript] 1871-76.

Title: Letter books of Amos Tappan Akerman [manuscript] 1871-76.

Official and unofficial correspondence, including letters of the last 6 months of Akerman's Cabinet service. Official letters deal with the appointment of Territorial judges, suppression of the Ku Klux Klan, amnesty for Confederate soldiers, advancement of the Republican Party in the South, and means of insuring Negro votes for the party. Includes many personal letters, and correspondence with William W. Belknap, B.F. Butler, Charles E. Butler, George S. Boutwell, D.T. Corbin, George William Curtis, C. Delano, Thomas F. Fullock, James A. Garfield, O.O. Howard, H.R. Hulburd, Edwin Parsons, John D. Pope, John Sherman, Alphonso Taft, D.A. Walker, J.K.H. Wilcox, and others.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950600 View

Jackson, James, 1819-1887. James Jackson letter, 1885.

Title: James Jackson letter, 1885.

This collection consists of a letter from James Jackson, 1885, regarding the sale of lands for taxes; he is referring to George Sibbald's land. The letter is written on stationery of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85450371 View