Miscellaneous papers, 1795-1839.

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Miscellaneous papers, 1795-1839.

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Collection consists of copies and drafts of outgoing correspondence as well as letters received. His correspondence from the 1790s deals with legal affairs, but is principally with female acquaintances and is social or romantic in nature. Other letters and letters received pertain to legal matters and politics. As a leader of the Federalists in Boston, Sullivan was in contact with Federalist supporters outside of Boston, in central, western, and southeastern Massachusetts and southern Maine. Subjects include federal and state election politics, Democratic party politics, opposition to the war with England, the political press and pamphleteering, the case of Barnabas Bidwell, DeWitt Clinton, James Sullivan's death, the Hartford Convention, and the case of Rev. Samuel Farmar Jarvis. Correspondents include Elias Hicks, Joseph Anthony, Benjamin Whitwell, Samuel Lathrop, Benjamin Vaughan, Daniel Webster, Harrison Gray Otis, William Coleman, Ichabod Goodwin, George Blake, John Vaughan, William D. Williamson, John Peck, Henry Rigel, William Meredith, Gallego & Chevallié, Kilborn Whitman, Mark Langdon Hill, Elisher Ruggles, John W. Hurlbert, Benjamin Pollard, Henry Tuskett, Charles Vaughan, James Richardson, Willard Phillips, Henry D. Sedgwick, Calvin Goddard, Francis W. Waldo, Joseph May, Elijah Paine, John Farrar, and Benjamin Russell.

1 box (ca. 60 items) ; 26 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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