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- Letter to Harriet Johnson, June 20, 1848
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Letter to daughter. Topics include Committee on Public Lands; visit of Frederick Billings.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, February 10, 1845
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Letter to daughter. Topics include Whig and Democrat members of Congress; President James Polk; annexation of Texas.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, February 14, 1847
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Letter to daughter. Topics include city crowded with people seeking military appointments; Senator John Calhoun (SC) and the Calhoun branch of the Democratic party; President James Polk.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, February 2, 1845
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Letter to daughter. Topics include speech by Collamer on Texas; case of Collamer's before the Supreme Court; health of Representative Willis Green (KY); annexation of Texas; tariff.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, February 4, 1844
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Letter to daughter. Topics include abolitionism; Representative Joshua Giddings (OH); Representative John Quincy Adams (MA); Democrats and Whigs; speech making in Congress.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, January 14 1844
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Letter to wife. Topics include activities of a Congressman; constituent business at the General Post Office, the Treasury, the War or Navy Department, and the Patent Office; Congressional prayer meeting; social life.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, January 2, 1859
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Letter to daughter. Topics include mailing of government documents and speeches by Collamer; new Senate chambers; social calls.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, January 24, 1847
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Letter to daughter. Topics include Mexican-American War; President James Polk; General Zachary Taylor; General Winfield Scott.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 11, 1859
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Letter to wife. Topics include President James Buchanan; Senator James Dixon (CT); John Brown; speeches in the House of Representatives.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 12, 1858
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Letter to wife. Topics include constituent business; invitation to dinner from President James Buchanan; new Senate chambers; Pension Office.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 14, 1856
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Letter to wife. Topics include speech by Collamer in the Senate.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 19, 1859
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Letter to wife. Topics include John Brown and proposed investigation of his supporters.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 25, 1856
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Letter to wife. Topics include Agriculture Patent Office Reports to be mailed.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 26, 1858
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Letter to wife. Topics include new Senate chambers; mailing of government documents and speeches by Collamer; social life.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 3, 1848
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Letter to wife. Topics include traveling to Washington, DC; new session of Congress; lottery for seats in the House.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 13, 1859
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Letter to wife. Topics include acquisition of Cuba; Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 14, 1849
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Letter to wife. Topics include inauguration of President Zachary Taylor; traveling to Vermont by rail.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 17, 1844
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Letter to wife. Topics include party hosted by Postmaster General Charles Wickliffe; George Perkins Marsh; Democrats and Whigs; dueling.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 28, 1844
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Letter to wife. Topics include war steam ship Princeton explosion, killing Secretary of State Abel Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs Captain Beverly Kennon and others.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 3, 1856
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Letter to wife. Topics include John Gregory Smith; receptions of cabinet Secretaries and President Franklin Pierce; Representative Nathaniel Banks (MA).