Correspondence, 1821-1846.

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Correspondence, 1821-1846.

Letters to her brother-in-law, John M. Holley, request his assistance in compiling the memoirs of her deceased husband, Horace Holley; letters to her daughter, Harriette Brand, comment on Henry Clay and her being present at the final vote on the tariff question in Washington City in 1828, a Whig procession in New Orleans in 1840 and the arrival of Kentucky troops in Texas in July l846; includes a prospectus of W. Wells, for a Boarding School for Young Gentlemen at Cambridge, Mass., in 1827.

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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Brand, Hariette Williman Holley, 1808-

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Holley, John Milton, 1777-1836.

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Wells, W.

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Holley, Horace, 1781-1827

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Boarding School for Young Gentlemen (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Holley, Mary Phelps Austin, 1784-1846.

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