Charles and Levi Woodbury papers, 1833-1894.

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Charles and Levi Woodbury papers, 1833-1894.

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Chiefly correspondence of Charles Woodbury and his father, Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), governor, legislator, cabinet official, and U.S. Supreme Court justice; and other papers of Charles Woodbury, including speech (1854), bills, receipts, legal papers, and other materials. Includes correspondence of Levi Woodbury, chiefly with family members, reflecting his travels (April-May, 1833) by steam and rail along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Georgia, describing places seen, fellow travelers, floggings of slaves, and immigrants heading west; information concerning Levi Woodbury's support of James Madison during the War of 1812, his appointments as secretary of the U.S. Navy by Andrew Jackson and secretary of the treasury (a post he retained during Martin Van Buren's administration), and nomination for the U.S. presidency; correspondence of Charles Woodbury, principally with his father, relating to business, family, and personal matters; love-letters of Charles Woodbury written to Lily Macalester; and materials relating to Frederick Warren, a bark owned by C.L. Woodbury, sailing out of Boston, the family residence in Portsmouth, Woodbury School (Portsmouth), and Free Will Baptist Church, Lowell, Mass. Correspondents of Charles Woodbury include his sister and brother-in-law, Frances (Woodbury) Blair and Montgomery Blair, Nehemiah Eastman, G.V. Fox, Archibald H. Lowery, Asa Ham, and John B. Rittenhouse.

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