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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 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, 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, 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 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, April 13, 1856
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Letter to wife. Topics include speech by Collamer in the Senate on Kansas; practice of visiting home by members of Congress while in session.
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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 20, 1857
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Letter to wife. Topics include opposition of Senator Stephen Douglas (IL) to the position of President James Buchanan on Kansas; new hall for House of Representatives.
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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.