Personal and business letters to and from a New York City lawyer and Yale graduate. He was born in New Hartford, New York, and moved to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1861 when he retired. Talcott kept up a correspondence with his mother, Mary E. Talcott, starting while he was a student at Yale. Politics and legal questions dominate the correspondence. Many address the slavery question, the Democratic Party's platform, and the debate over whether to annex Texas as a free or slave state. One letter, dated April 13, 1838, gave Talcott his height, weight, and body and head measurements. The conclusion was that he was more suited to intellectual than physical exertion. Several letters in the collection are between Mary K. Stanley and her daughter Mary E. Talcott, and O.B. Matteson concerning the settlement of the estate of Frederick G. Stanley, 1843-1849. Of interest among the family papers are an 1840 letter of introduction for G. S. Gilbert to President Van Buren, written by Ralph Ingersoll, and letters exchanged between Mary E. Talcott and her daughter-in-law (Thomas' wife) Sarah Talcott.
