Correspondence, 1840-1873.

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Correspondence, 1840-1873.

Correspondence concerning Democratic Party politics, presidential possibilities, and state and national election campaigns, especially the nomination and election of Franklin Pierce in 1852 when George was chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and showing the decline of the Democratic Party in New Hampshire, defeat by Know-Nothing (American) Party in 1855, and by Republican Party in 1856 and 1860. Earlier family correspondence includes George's description of life at Dartmouth College (1840-1842) and, in letters of George's half-brother, Paul Rolfe George (1807-1864), who was quartermaster under Caleb Cushing in the Mexican War, material on St. Croix Falls, Wis.

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