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- Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, December 11, 1842
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Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include adjournment of Congressional session; Senate and House repeal of Bankruptcy Law; act for reducing pay of members of Congress and other officers of government would fix the compensation of members at seven dollars per day, and seven dollars for...
Show moreLetter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include adjournment of Congressional session; Senate and House repeal of Bankruptcy Law; act for reducing pay of members of Congress and other officers of government would fix the compensation of members at seven dollars per day, and seven dollars for every twenty miles of travel, and reduce the pay, by twelve and one half percent, of all of officers of government who receive more than twelve hundred dollars a year; vote to release General Jackson's fine.
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- Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, December 11, 1842
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Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include effect of severe weather on obtaining a quorum in the Senate; health of Senator Samuel Phelps (VT); church meeting preached by Dr. Nott, President of Union College, Schenectady, New York; boarding accommodations in Washington, DC.
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- Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, August 1, 1842
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Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include enclosed seating chart of the Senate chamber with the seats of the members.
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- Letter to Mary Hill, July 10, 1842
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Letter to daughter. Topics include attendance at Church meeting; heavy work load in the Senate, including committee work and constituent business.
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- Letter to Matilda Corbin, July 7, 1842
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Letter to sister. Topics include 4th of July festivities including processions by Juvenile Temperance Societies, Sabbath School Societies, and black Sabbath School children numbering near five hundred.
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- Letter to Nathan and Mary Hill, April 30, 1842
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Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include traveling to Washington, DC from Craftsbury, Vermont; oath of office in the Senate; Senator Phelps (VT).
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- Letter to Eunice Crafts, February 13, 1825
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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.
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- Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 22, 1825
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Letter to wife. Topics include social life of Washington, DC; typical day for Crafts.
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- Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 9, 1825
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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.
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- Letter to Eunice Crafts, January 2, 1825
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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.
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- Letter to Eunice Crafts, May 16, 1824
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Letter to wife. Topics include bill for encouragement of domestic manufactures.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, February 15, 1824
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Letter to son. Topics include Congressional caucus on the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, with 64 of 69 votes for William Crawford for President and 57 votes for Albert Gallatin for Vice-President; no Vermont representatives or Senators participated in the caucus.
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- Letter to Eunice Crafts, February 7, 1824
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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.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, January 4, 1824
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Letter to son. Topics include upcoming presidential election and potential candidates John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and William Crawford; divide in electoral politics on question of slavery particularly in Pennsylvania and New York; question of a Congressional...
Show moreLetter to son. Topics include upcoming presidential election and potential candidates John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and William Crawford; divide in electoral politics on question of slavery particularly in Pennsylvania and New York; question of a Congressional caucus on the election debated; health of members of Congress; Greek War of Independence.
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- Letter to Eunice Crafts, December 1, 1823
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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.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, February 2, 1823
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Letter to son. Topics include Captain Alden B. Partridge's lectures on the Battle of Waterloo and national defense; health of Representative John Randolph (VA); Representative George McDuffie (SC).
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, April 22, 1822
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Letter to son. Topics include date of adjournment; appropriations for different departments of government; federal revenue.
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- Letter to Samuel P. Crafts, April 8, 1822
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Letter to son. Topics include date of adjournment; health of Representative John Randolph (VA).
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- Letter to James A. Paddock, April 7, 1822
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Topics include newspaper coverage of Congress; length and slowness of current session.
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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.