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Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885. Robert Augustus Toombs papers, 1861.

Title: Robert Augustus Toombs papers, 1861.

Chiefly records documenting expenses of Confederate commission sent to negotiate with United States government and correspondence re diplomatic ties between Confederate States of America and United States, from office of Secretary of State in Montgomery, Ala. Including letter, 3 Mar. 1861, Washington, D.C., from Martin J. Crawford, to Robert Toombs, Secretary of State, Confederate States of America, Montgomery, Ala., discussing conversations with U.S. government re Southern secession and diplomatic relations; letter, 12 Mar. 1861, from John Forsythe and Martin J. Crawford, Washington, D.C., to William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State, Washington, D.C., re proclamation of secession and independence for Confederacy, and request for peaceful settlement. Letter, 15 Apr. 1861, from J.J. Pickett, Washington, D.C., to Robert Toombs, re mustering of 75,000 volunteers in the ranks of U.S. Army in preparation for war; undated letter from John Forsythe, Martin J[enkins] Crawford, and A[lfred] B. Roman, Washington, D.C., to William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the U.S., Washington, D.C., re Confederate offer to negotiate peace, U.S. refusal to negotiate, end of discussions, and preparation for war. Also including undated real estate records, including questions and answers re real estate and terms of property ownership.

ArchivalResource: v.

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King, Horatio, 1811-1897. Letters, 1855-1856.

Title: Letters, 1855-1856.

Letters written to John C. Rives, Benjamin Perley Poore, Harrison Wright and Martin Jenkins Crawford by King while he was first assistant postmaster-general. All concern postal matters. Also included is King's franking privilege signature.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/704273296 View

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

Toombs, Tobert Augustus, 1810-1885. Letter signed : [n.p.], to the President [Buchanan], [n.d.].

Title: Letter signed : [n.p.], to the President [Buchanan], [n.d.].

Recommending E.R. Hardin as an associate justice for the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270572818 View