Letter to Gales & Seaton [manuscript] 1854 February 27.

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Letter to Gales & Seaton [manuscript] 1854 February 27.

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Botts writes concerning an article he has written on the Nebraska Bill which he hopes they will publish, noting that the people of Richmond are "just waking up to the importance of this question."

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Gales & Seaton

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Publishing firm formed in 1812 by Joseph Gales (1786-1860) and William Winston Seaton (1785-1866), based in Washington, D.C. Its publications included the National intelligencer, Debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1834-1856), Register of debates in Congress (1824-1837), and American state papers (1832-1861). From the description of Letter : Washington, D.C., to Gulian C. Verplanck, 1831 Nov. 7. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122316896...

Botts, John Minor, 1802-1869

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Botts was born in Dumfries, Virginia to prominent lawyer Benjamin Gaines Botts (1776 - 1811) and his wife Jane Tyler Botts (1782 - 1811). Both of his parents died in the Richmond Theatre fire on 26 December 1811, so John and his siblings were raised by relatives in Fredericksburg. Botts attended the common schools in Richmond, Virginia, then studied law. He married Mary Whiting Blair (1801-1841), and they had several children. Two sons (John and Alexander) died very young; their firstborn son...