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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, 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 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 Harriet Johnson, April 7, 1844
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Letter to daughter. Topics include social life of wives of congressmen; steam ship Princeton accident; Representative John Quincy Adams (MA); Representative Solomon Foot (VT); social life
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, January 26, 1845
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Letter to wife. Topics include annexation of Texas debate and vote; speeches by Collamer and Representative George Perkins Marsh (VT) on Texas.
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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 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 N. Collamer, November 27, 1845
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Letter to wife. Topics include securing a seat in the House chamber; traveling to Washington.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, December 14, 1845
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Letter to daughter. Topics include visit to the White House with Representative Solomon Foot (VT); Sarah Polk, wife of the President; Congressional prayer meetings.
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- Letter to Mary Collamer, January 8, 1846
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Letter to daughter. Topics include speeches about Oregon; Representative Solomon Foot (VT); constituent business, particularly in regard to pensions.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, January 19, 1846
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Letter to wife. Topics include Representative Solomon Foot (VT); death of Representative William Taylor (VA); President James Polk; Representative Cornelius Darragh (PA); Representative George Perkins Marsh (VT); Representative John Chipman (MI).
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- Speech of Mr. Collamer, of Vermont, on the tariff : delivered in the House of Representatives, U.S., June 26, 1846.
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- 1846-06-26
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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 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 William Collamer, January 24, 1848
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Letter to son. Topics include General Zachary Taylor.
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- Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 7, 1848
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Letter to wife. Topics include speech in House by Collamer; Hiram Powers statue of the Greek Slave.
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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 N. Collamer, July 8, 1848
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Letter to wife. Topics include question of slavery being admitted into newly acquired territories; presidential speeches in the House.