Augustus Chaplin French correspondence, 1846-1853.

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Augustus Chaplin French correspondence, 1846-1853.

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Correspondence chiefly concerns the Illinois and Michigan Canal, railroads, and other internal improvements; state debt; bond agents; school funds; geological survey; the dam and harbor at St. Louis, Missouri; public lands; taxation; insane asylums; Quincy House sale; and the Washington National Monument. Other common topics in the letters are law enforcement and military affairs such as extraditions, regulators in Massac County, redress of grievances, soldiers stationed at Nauvoo, suspension of banishment decrees and pardons. Incoming letters include those from private citizens; out-of-state mayors, governors, or other government officials; bond agents; accountants; the State Geologist; the Illinois Secretary of State; military officers; railroad and canal executives; and county officials. Outgoing letters are usually to financiers, administrators, canal engineers, state creditors, the president of the Bank of the United States, Illinois legislators, bankers, U. S. Presidents, and judges.

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