Letter [manuscript] : Washington, D. C., to Clarissa Seymour, Utica, New York, 1837 January.

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Letter [manuscript] : Washington, D. C., to Clarissa Seymour, Utica, New York, 1837 January.

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Seymour writes to her sister, Clarissa, mentioning a visit to the President [Andrew Jackson] and hearing a speech by [Henry] Clay. Seymour describes her social life in the Capitol and her impressions of author N. P. Willis and his wife, Mary Stace Willis.

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Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867

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