Papers of Crallé, R. Kenna Campbell and Sallie Faulcon Cabell [manuscript] 1801-1900.

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Papers of Crallé, R. Kenna Campbell and Sallie Faulcon Cabell [manuscript] 1801-1900.

Collection contains political, legal, business, & personal papers. Much of it concerns land transactions and court cases. Political subjects occur frequently especially in the 1840s when Crallé was state dept. chief clerk. Topics of interest include the presidential election of 1832, patronage, slave hiring, the Republican (Democratic) party press, the German treaty of 1844, the annexation of Texas and foreign aid to Ireland and the Imam of Muscat. There are references to Thomas Hart Benton, Andrew Jackson, & Daniel Webster. Among the correspondents are John Caldwell Calhoun, Henry Clay, & John Tyler.

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