Letters Home From Congress
Collection Overview
This collection features letters home from Warren R. Austin (Senator, 1931-1946), Jacob Collamer (Representative, 1843-1848; Senator, 1855-1865), and Samuel C. Crafts (Representative, 1817-1824; Senator 1842-1843). The letters document travel to and from Washington by horse, boat, train, and airplane; lodging in boarding houses, hotels, and homes; social life in Washington; significant local and national events; and legislative issues under consideration in Congress. Austin's letters are particularly strong in their coverage of his frustration at being a minority Senator during the era of Roosevelt and the New Deal; his activities on the Judiciary Committee; and foreign affairs questions such as the Neutrality Act. The letters of Crafts and Collamer both extensively cover the question of slavery, discussing Missouri statehood, John Brown, the annexation of Texas, and the Civil War. All three Congressmen frequently discuss questions regarding appropriations and the Federal budget. Biographical information is available from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, at: http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
Time Period Covered: 1818-1941
Parent Collections
Related Archival Collection(s)
Warren R. Austin Collection
Crafts Family Collection
Collamer Family Papers
Published: September 12, 2006, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary [17]
- United States. Supreme Court [8]
- United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment [8]
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 [5]
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs [2]
- Federal government -- United States [1]
- Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946 [1]
- Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 [1]
- Judicial review of administrative acts [1]
- Logan, Marvel Mills, 1875-1939. [1]
- Lynching -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Neutrality -- United States [1]
- O'Mahoney, Joseph C. (Joseph Christopher), 1884-1962 [1]
- Reed, Stanley Forman, 1884-1980 [1]
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962. [1]
- United States. Dept. of Agriculture -- Appropriations and expenditures. [1]
- United States. Dept. of Commerce. Office of the Secretary [1]
- United States. National Labor Relations Board [1]
- United States. Work Projects Administration -- Appropriations and expenditures. [1]
- Walter, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1894-1963 [1]
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Topic: ("United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary")
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, April 22, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-04-22
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Court Bill, President Roosevelt, and potential votes against the bill in the Senate.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, April 23, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-04-23
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Court Bill hearings in the Judiciary Committee, and includes an excerpt.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, April 29, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-04-29
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include debate on the Conference Report on the Neutrality Bill; Senator McNarry and Austin's duties as Assistant Minority Leader; Court Bill in the Judiciary Committee.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, April 5, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-04-05
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include sit-down strikes; Court Bill hearings in the Judiciary Committee.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 1, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-02-01
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Judiciary Committee; O'Mahoney Bill; centralization of power in Washington.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 1, 1939
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1939-02-01
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include foreign policy and the plan for national defense in the Military Affairs Committee; President Roosevelt meeting with the Military Affairs Committee at the White House; Relief Bill; Judiciary Committee.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 14, 1938
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1938-02-14
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Seantor Austin's speech in Utica, NY on Lincoln's birthday; tie vote in Judiciary Committee on Equal Rights for Women, Austin voted for it.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 24, 1938
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1938-02-24
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Judiciary Committee consideration of adding more judgeships.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 3, 1939
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1939-02-03
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Military Affairs Committee; Sub-Committee of the Judiciary on the nomination of Dean Clark of Yale Law School for a judgeship.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, January 10, 1938
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1938-01-10
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Judiciary Committee business; National Labor Relations Board; Anti-Lynching Bill; Conference Report on Farm Bill.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, January 20, 1939
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1939-01-20
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Senator Bridges (NH) speech on confirmation of Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce; President Roosevelt's dinner to the Judiciary; Justice Stanley Reed; Chief Justice Charles Hughes.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, July 22, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-07-22
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include overriding of a Presidential veto, 71 to 19; recommitting of the Court Bill to the Judiciary Committee.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, June 24, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-06-24
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include letters received about Judiciary Committee action on the Court Bill.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, March 14, 1939
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1939-03-14
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include a Sub-Committee of the Judiciary looking at two bills relating to administrative tribunals.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, March 25, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-03-25
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Court Bill hearings in the Judiciary Committee.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, March 9, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-03-09
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Pure Food and Drug Bill; Court Bill hearings in the Judiciary Committee and opposition by Democrats; Guffey Coal Bill.
Title: Warren R. Austin letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 18, 1940
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1940-12-18
Resource type: text
Topics include White House reception for the Judiciary; President and Mrs. Roosevelt; Walter-Logan Bill in the House after Presidential veto.
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