Letters to "Wheeler" [manuscript], 1848-1850.

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Letters to "Wheeler" [manuscript], 1848-1850.

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Letters, 1848 and 1850, concern life in Charleston and South Carolina; travel through North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama on business trips, with anecdotes about the Revolutionary War from places he visited; news of friends and Dartmouth College matters; and comments on national politics, North versus South, and slavery, with specific references to Lewis Cass and Zachary Taylor in the presidential campaign and election of 1848, and to John Parker Hale, anti-slavery senator from New Hampshire.

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Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873

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