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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC37
Scope and Contents
1840-1848: (Box 1) 29 items. Letters deal with local politics in Waltham, Massachusetts, where Banks was four times an unsuccessful candidate for the state legislature, 1844-1849. Letters refer to speaking engagements, temperance, Democratic Party politics, and affairs of the Boston Custom House, where Banks gained an appointment in 1843. There is a dated letter from lawyer and reformer Robert Rantoul.
1854-1857: (Box 1), 98 items. Many of the letters refer to the controversy over the...
Dates:
Created: 1840-1896; Other: Date acquired: 06/00/1939
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William B. Archer papers
Collection — Box: 2
Identifier: MS-SC35
Scope and Contents
Consists of several letters and documents including: one letter of William B. Archer to Charles R. Matheny, January 28, 1826, enclosing a map, survey, and report on a recently established road from Springfield to Paris, Illinois; several Black Hawk War documents (receipts, muster rolls), 1832; an 1833 letter from John M. Robinson concerning land office business and Black Hawk War claims; two letters from Robinson concerning mail routes and a state road from Danville, Illinois to Chicago; five...
Dates:
Created: 1826-1856
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- Archer, William B., 1792-1870 1
- Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss 1
- Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 1
- Bromwell, Henry Pelham Holmes,, 1823-1903 1
- Colton, Rufus 1
- Dulaney, Robert Leroy,, 1818-1903 1
- Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 1
- Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 1
- Gooding, William, 1803-1878 1
- Illinois Central Railroad Company 1
- Job, Archibald, 1784-1874 1
- Matheny, Charles R.,, 1786-1839 1
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 1
- Republican Party (U.S.: 1854-)--History--19th century 1
- Robinson, John McCracken, 1794-1843 1
- Stevens, Frank Everett, 1856-1939 1
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