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. Dept. of Agriculture -- Appropriations and expenditures. [15]
- Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984 [2]
- Lynching -- Law and legislation -- United States [2]
- Commercial treaties -- United States. [1]
- Federal government -- United States [1]
- Securities, Tax-exempt -- Law and legislation -- United States. [1]
- Somoza, Anastasio, 1925-1980 [1]
- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- United States -- Officials and employees -- Political activity. [1]
- United States. Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities. [1]
- United States. Congress. Senate. [1]
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry [1]
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary [1]
- United States. National Labor Relations Board [1]
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs -- Appropriations and expenditures. [1]
- United States. Solicitor General. [1]
- Wallace, Henry Agard, 1888-1965. [1]
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Topic: ("United States. Dept. of Agriculture -- Appropriations and expenditures.")
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 10, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-12-10
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include visit to Washington of Alfred Landon and Col. Frank Knox; requests made of Austin to be a candidate for President; Governor Aiken; farm bill.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 13, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-12-13
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include farm bill; sinking of an American gunboat on the Yang Tse River.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 14, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-12-14
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include farm bill and Vermont dairy farmers and egg producers.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 16, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-12-16
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include the maximum authorization of money for the farm bill; soil erosion projects.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 17, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-12-17
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include farm bill and the absence of New England Senators on the Agricultural Committee.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 2, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-12-02
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Secretary of Agriculture's opposition to the farm bill being considered in a Special Session of the Senate.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 4, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-12-04
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include farm bill.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, December 8, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-12-08
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include visit to Washington of Governor Aiken; farm bill.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 15, 1938
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1938-02-15
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include sub-committee hearings on nomination of Robert Jackson for the post of Solicitor General; Austin's duties as Assistant Minority Leader; farm bill; cloture vote on the filibuster of the anti-lynching bill.
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, March 18, 1940
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1940-03-18
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include debate over Hatch Bill to provide against pernicious political activities; appropriations for agriculture; Trade Treaty Bill; Bill to remove immunity of government securities from taxation.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, March 19, 1940
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1940-03-19
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include appropriations for agriculture and President Roosevelt.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, March 9, 1932
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1932-03-09
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include agriculture appropriations; indian appropriations; senate committees; anti-injunction bill.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, May 8, 1939
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1939-05-08
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza visiting the Senate; Agricultural appropriations.
Title: Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, November 24, 1937
Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962
Date: 1937-11-24
Resource type: text
Resource type: letter
Topics include farm bill and centralization of power in the Federal government.
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