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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, April 15, 1820
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Letter to wife. Topics include proposed raising of import duties on Canada.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, April 30, 1820
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Letter to wife. Topics include negotiations with Spain.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, May 8, 1820
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Letter to wife. Topics include adjournment of Congress.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, November 12, 1820
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Letter to wife. Topics include traveling to Washington; members of Congress arriving in Washington; boarding houses.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, November 19, 1820
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Letter to son. Topics include traveling to Washington; election of a Speaker of the House to replace Representative Henry Clay (KY) held up by split between northern and southern Representatives on slavery question; constitution of Missouri and slavery
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, November 19, 1820
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Letter to wife. Topics include travel; boarding houses; Senator William Palmer (VT), Representative Charles Rich (VT), Judge Livermore (NH), Mr. Phelps & Mr. Stevens of Connecticut; election of Speaker of the House; constitution of Missouri & slavery.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, November 27, 1820
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Letter to wife. Topics include social life; parties hosted by Secretary of War John Calhoun and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams; President James Monroe.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 3, 1820
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Letter to wife. Topics include unknown state of the Treasury; question of Missouri's acceptance into the United States.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 10, 1820
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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.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, December 20, 1820
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Letter to son. Topics include debate in Congress over the establishment of a system of domestic manufactures.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 25, 1820
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Letter to wife. Topics include health of members of Congress; Christmas in Washington, DC.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, December 31, 1820
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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.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, January 22, 1821
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Letter to wife. Topics include health of son Samuel P. Crafts; health of residents of Crafts' boarding house in Washington, DC; health of members of Congress, with four dead.
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- Letter to Dr. Eli Todd, January 28, 1821
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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.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 12, 1821
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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.
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- Letter to Eunice Todd Crafts, February 19, 1821
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Letter to wife. Topics include health of Crafts family; coming inauguration of President Monroe; death of Representative William Burwell (VA).
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, December 3, 1821
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Letter to son. Topics include traveling from Albany, NY to Washington, DC; beginning of Congressional session and search for a new Speaker of the House; lodgings in Washington, DC.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, December 24, 1821
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Letter to son. Topics include slowness of mail; Bankruptcy bill.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, February 3, 1822
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Letter to son. Topics include apportionment of representatives following the last census and possible loss of a congressional seat in Vermont.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, March 3, 1822
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Letter to son. Topics include slowness of mail; health of members of Congress; date of adjournment.