Letters of Henry Clay [manuscript], 1834-1848.

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Letters of Henry Clay [manuscript], 1834-1848.

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Include letters, 1839-1848, to Kenneth Rayner concerning slavery and free labor in the United States, the tariff, the Bank of the United States, Zachary Taylor, Whig party conventions, and his possible nomination for president. Also letters, 1834-1838, to John Leeds Kerr (1834) concerning national politics and defeat of Jacksonism; to Lewis Tappson (1836) concerning the suppression of the African slave trade; and to F.T. Booth (1838) concerning the Whig party, national politics, and the Bank of the United States.

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