Buckingham family correspondence, 1831-1875.

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Buckingham family correspondence, 1831-1875.

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Correspondence among members of the Aiken and Buckingham families of Norwich, Connecticut. William A. Buckingham became Governor of the state during the Civil War. Before that time, however, he wrote several letters to his wife while traveling by boat, 1831-1842. The bulk of his correspondence relates to his political career, the war, and his governorship. Correspondents include U.S. Grant, Edwin M. Stanton, Nathaniel Banks, and William H. Seward. He also received one letter from his daughter Eliza. Eliza Ripley Buckingham wrote to her sisters and her mother, and also received a letter and a poem from Lydia Sigourney. William and Eliza's daughter Eliza married William Aiken, and some of his letters are also part of the collection. Most are written to his mother, and in 1859 he wrote a rather scathing review of the residents of Indiana.

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