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- Tariff -- United States [12]
- Slavery -- United States [11]
- Missouri compromise [10]
- Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850 [9]
- Boardinghouses -- Washington (D.C.) [8]
- Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs [7]
- Democratic Party (U.S.) [6]
- Great Britain. Treaties, etc. United States, 1842 Aug. 9 [6]
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 [5]
- Debts, Public -- United States [5]
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845. [5]
- Public lands -- United States [5]
- Whig Party (U.S.) [5]
- Dueling [4]
- Monroe, James, 1758-1831 [4]
- Seminole War, 1st, 1817-1818 [4]
- United States -- Congress -- House -- Election districts. [4]
- Barron, James, 1769-1851 [3]
- Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834 [3]
- Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820. [3]
- United States. Congress -- Constituent communication [3]
- United States. Congress -- Powers and duties. [3]
- Ashburton, Alexander Baring, Baron, 1774-1848. [2]
- Bankruptcy -- Law and legislation -- United States [2]
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 [2]
- Elections -- United States -- 1824. [2]
- Fourth of July celebrations [2]
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 [2]
- Phelps, Samuel Shethar, 1793-1855 [2]
- Randolph, John, 1773-1833 [2]
- Tariff on wool [2]
- United States. Congress -- Salaries, etc. [2]
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 [2]
- Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856 [1]
- Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828 [1]
- Burwell, William A. (William Armisted), 1780-1821 [1]
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. [1]
- Cookman, George G. (George Grimston), 1800-1841 [1]
- Edwards, Henry W. (Henry Waggaman), 1779-1847 [1]
- Gallatin, A. E. (Albert Eugene), 1881-1952. [1]
- Greece -- History -- War of Independence, 1821-1829 [1]
- Henderson, John, 1795-1857 [1]
- Influenza [1]
- Livermore, Arthur, 1766-1853 [1]
- Mason, Armistead Thompson, 1787-1819. [1]
- McCarty, John M. (John Mason), d. 1852. [1]
- McDuffie, George, 1790-1851 [1]
- Media -- Political aspects -- United States. [1]
- Military pensions -- United States [1]
- Mumford, George, d. 1818 [1]
- New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815. [1]
- Old Senate Chamber (United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.) [1]
- Paine, Charles, 1799-1853 [1]
- Palmer, William Adams, 1781-1860 [1]
- Partridge, Alden, 1785-1854. [1]
- Phelps, Elisha, 1779-1847 [1]
- Pitkin, Timothy, 1766-1847. [1]
- Presidents -- United States -- Nomination. [1]
- Rich, Charles, 1771-1824 [1]
- Sherwood, Samuel Burr [1]
- Slavery -- Florida [1]
- Southard, Samuel L. (Samuel Lewis), 1787-1842. [1]
- Southey, Robert, 1774-1843. Vision of judgement. [1]
- Stevens, James, 1768-1835 [1]
- United States -- Appropriations and expenditures. [1]
- United States. Congress -- Rules and practice [1]
- United States. Congress. House -- Speakers [1]
- United States. Congress. House Buildings. [1]
- United States. Dept. of the Treasury [1]
Title: Letter to Benjamin Clark, February 21, 1818
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Topics include activities of a Congressman; constituent business; imports and export imbalance and its effect on currency and the national debt.
Title: Letter to Col. Joseph Scott, April 9, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Topics include Spanish war; Florida and slavery; Representative Henry Clay's (KY) aspirations to become President after President James Monroe; Secretary of State John Quincy Adams; Representative Joel Crawford (GA).
Title: Letter to Col. Joseph Scott, March 23, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Topics include soldiers pensions; Federal deficit; duel between Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron resulting in the death of Decatur.
Title: Letter to Doctor Eli Todd, January 30, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to brother-in-law. Topics include Federal deficit; debate over Missouri.
Title: Letter to Dr. Eli Todd, January 28, 1821
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to brother-in-law. Topics include health of members of Congress; health of son Samuel P. Crafts; Representative Henry Clay to introduce a Senate resolution on the admission of Missouri to the United States; Florida treaty and Spain.
Title: Letter to Eunice Crafts, December 1, 1823
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include traveling from New York to Washington, DC; lodgings in Washington, DC; start of Congress with organizational matters and election of a Speaker of the House.
Title: Letter to Eunice Crafts, February 13, 1825
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include the decision of House of Representatives to make John Quincy Adams the next President of the United States and General Andrew Jackson's response.
Title: Letter to Eunice Crafts, February 7, 1824
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include health of Eunice and Samuel P. Crafts; social life and parties in Washington, DC; Byron and Southey's Visions of Judgment.
Title: Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 2, 1825
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include visit of General Lafayette to Congress and the United States; Crafts' opinion that the House will select John Quincy Adams as President.
Title: Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 22, 1825
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include social life of Washington, DC; typical day for Crafts.
Title: Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 9, 1825
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include party for the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans at General Brown's; Crafts' introduction to General Lafayette and presentation of a resolution inviting him to visit Vermont.
Title: Letter to Eunice Crafts, May 16, 1824
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include bill for encouragement of domestic manufactures.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, April 15, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include proposed raising of import duties on Canada.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, April 30, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include negotiations with Spain.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 10, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include question of Missouri's acceptance into the United States by Congress and split between Northern and Southern members; federal deficit and consideration of reduction of pay for government employees; social life; invitation to dine at President James Monroe's.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 19, 1818
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include health of Crafts family; social life and visiting etiquette; boarding houses.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 25, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include health of members of Congress; Christmas in Washington, DC.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 3, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include unknown state of the Treasury; question of Missouri's acceptance into the United States.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 31, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include health of son Samuel P. Crafts; health of members of Congress; two members of the House and one Senator have died from causes possibly related to an influenza outbreak that fall.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 7, 1819
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include boarding houses; new House chambers and difficulty of hearing speakers.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 12, 1821
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include health of son Samuel P. Crafts; health of members of Congress; votes on admitting Missouri to the United States with slaves failed by three and six votes on successive days.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 19, 1821
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include health of Crafts family; coming inauguration of President Monroe; death of Representative William Burwell (VA).
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 20, 1820
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include speeches in the House about Missouri.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 6, 1819
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include duel between General Mason and Captain McCarty of Virginia over a political quarrel resulting in the death of General Mason; debate over censure of General Andrew Jackson over his engagement of the war in Florida.
Title: Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, January 1, 1819
Resource type: text letter
Creator: Crafts, Samuel Chandler, 1768-1853
Letter to wife. Topics include activities of a Congressman; constituent business; death of Representative George Mumford (NC); society events hosted by the President, and the British and French ministers.
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