The papers of Francis Preston Blair, journalist and politician, consist of writings, correspondence, documents, materials regarding Blair as a subject, printed matter, papers of other persons, and additional papers. The writings include his speeches, editorials, addresses, articles, essays, and general works; these date from 1830, when Blair was called to Washington, D.C., by President Andrew Jackson to edit the Globe, the official newspaper of the Democratic administration. Although he never held an elected office, Blair was considered a person of political importance and influence in the mid-19th century, and his correspondence is indicative of this, containing letters from Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), Martin Van Buren (1782-1862), and Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), as well as senators Lewis Cass (1782-1866), John Charles Fremont (1813-1890), and John Jordan Crittenden (1787-1863), and congressmen Schuyler Colfax (1823-1885), Edward Livingston (1764-1836), and Thomas Patrick Moore (1797-1853).
Also included is family correspondence, especially with his sons, Francis "Frank" Preston Blair, Jr. (1821-1875, Princeton Class of 1841), lawyer, general, and politician, and Montgomery Blair (1813-1883), lawyer, statesman, and postmaster general in President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, and daughter, Elizabeth Blair Lee, wife of Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee and mother of Blair Lee.
In addition, there are documents including Blair's last will and testament, financial papers such as receipts, checks, checkbooks, and account books. Among papers of others persons, there is correspondence of Andrew Jackson, manuscripts contributed to the Globe, and old family papers, many of them relating to the family of Eliza Violet Gist, Blair's wife.
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Francis Preston Blair Sr. (1791-1876) was an American newspaper editor, journalist, and politician. Blair was born in Virginia, raised in Kentucky, and later made a home at an estate he named Silver Spring in Montgomery County, Maryland. He was a member of Andrew Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet and advised Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. From 1831 to 1845, Blair ran The Globe (Washington, D.C.), a newspaper that promoted the interests of the Democratic Party during the administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Blair married Eliza Violet Howard Gist (1794-1877), with whom he had five children, Montgomery Blair (1813–1883), Juliet Blair (1816-1819), Elizabeth Blair (1818-1906), James Lawrence Blair (1819-1852), and Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821–1875).
Contains addresses, speeches, tracts, articles, essays, and notes dealing with political subjects including the elections of 1852 and 1856, repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the reviving of the Democratic Party, and the Civil War, as well as politicians such as Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, and Sam Houston. Some of Blair's articles were written for the Globe, which he edited.
Arranged chronologically.
Includes writings regarding drafts for articles in the Globe.
Contains mainly letters to Blair by members of his family, such as his wife, Eliza Violet Gist Blair, daughter, Elizabeth Blair Lee, sons, Montgomery, James, and Francis "Frank" Preston, Jr., as well as other family members. Also included are letters by people in government, politics, journalism, and the military, such as Andrew Jackson Donelson, William Henry Haywood, John Bigelow, James C. Pickett, John Albion Andrew, and John C. Rives, Roger B. Taney, as well as many ordinary citizens. Also included are some drafts of letters written by Blair.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
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Includes letters from President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845).
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Includes letters from President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).
Includes letters to and from President Martin Van Buren (1782-1862).
Contains Blair's will, petitions, receipts, checkbooks, canceled checks, and account books, most of the material dealing with his personal life and the running of the Globe. There are also documents related to land ownership.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
Includes records of financial arrangements between Blair, Amos Kendall, and John C. Rives.
Includes lists of congressmen (1832) and data from Missouri elections, presumably from the 1850s.
Includes receipts from Franklin County Court, where Blair was clerk of the court from 1812 t0 1830 (1824-1828); documents concerning debts, court cases, and payments (1819-1846); and records concerning hired help and running his estate (1840s-1868).
Includes materials related to laws regarding the Plank road and rates charged, with lists of rates and the overcharges. These papers were in a packet marked "for F. P. Blair Sr.".
Contains writings and correspondence about Blair.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
Contains congressional speeches and debates, official reports, material dealing with the Preston family, announcements appearing in the Globe, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings.
Arranged by genre of material.
Consists of papers of others, including correspondence of Andrew Jackson, as well as writings, documents, and correspondence of other individuals, primarily members of the Blair family. Notably, these materials also include contributions from various authors to the Globe during Blair's editorship in the 1830s and 1840s.
Arranged by genre of material.
Contains contributions sent to Francis Preston Blair and his co-editor John C. Rives for publication in the Globe, as well as a small number of writings by others not directly related to the Globe.
There is a file group of contributions to the Globe, followed by additional writings by others, arranged alphabetically by author name.
Consists of materials submitted for publication in the Globe, including manuscript drafts of essays and articles, letters to the editor, summaries of congressional proceedings and addresses, and handwritten extracts copied from correspondence, reports, and articles from other newspapers, along with occasional poems, financial statements, and clippings from other newspapers.
While authors have been identified where names are recorded, many of the articles and letters to the editor were submitted, and often published, anonymously. Anonymous works are often signed under the names of ancient Roman politicians or using generic geographical identifications such as "A Virginian." For titled works, titles have also been included in the description for each file, where possible.
Arranged into two file groups: contributions arranged alphabetically by author name, and contributions arranged topically.
Also includes a group of unidentified writings, arranged chronologically.
Arranged alphabetically by author name, with anonymous and unidentified writings at the end.
Includes "The Rallying Points" by Thomas H. Averett (November 18, 1837); "To the Virginia Democracy" by Samuel P. Beach (undated); copies of Carter Beverley correspondence with Noah Jane[?] (June 24-25, 1827); Abraham Bockee correspondence with General Duff Green (1831); "Fragment of a Poem" by N. Brashears (undated); a petition to the United States House of Representatives by Jeheil Brooks (January 10, 1843); "Presumptions of Egotism" by O.B. (December 20, 1836); A.B. Brown on the U.S. Bank (1831 February 29); notes on the meeting of the Convention of Editors of Newspapers by Henry A. Bully (Secretary) (1838); and letters to the editor by A.B. (undated), John S. Bagg (March 8, 1831), D. D. Baker (undated), Samuel Barron (July 29, 1831), George Mortimer Bibb (undated), William Boling (July 27, 1836), F. Bosworth (October 28, 1843), W. C. Bowyer (March 29, 1831), James M. Bradford (1833), T. G. Bradford (1833), N. Braiheam (1831), Bedford Brown (1834 June-July) with editors Francis P. Blair, R.B. Taney, and William J. Barry, Peter Hardeman Burnett (1843), H.B. (undated), and W.A.B. (undated).
Includes writings by William Castleman Jr. (October 22, 1831), Chase (undated), R.S. Church (June 13, 1833), Thomas Church (undated), Daniel Cockeran (and others) (undated), John Cramer (1836), "To the Public" and "The North American" by Morris Croxall (July 10, 1834), R.P. Currier (undated), and L.A.C. (undated).
Includes writings by Pardon Damon (March 26, 1831), D. Davis [?] (undated), James Dean (July 17, 1832), William DeBroy (March 13, 1838), Edward C. Delvan (undated), Edward Delony (March 13, 1831), Thomas W. Dorr (undated), John A. Douglas and others (May 12, 1833), Joseph Dudley (undated), M.C.D. (February 12, 1837), Thaddeus David (September 14, 1836), and "Political Portraits No. 1: The Old Politician: An Enigma" by J.E.D. (December 1838).
Includes writings by John Henry Eaton (September 17, 1831), R. Elee (June 22, 1833), Horatio Etting (undated), F.A.P. (undated), a poem by F.B.P (May 16, 1841), E. Fanning on British discovery of land (May 26, 1834), "The Burial Site" by Jonas Fauche (September 11, 1831), "The Next Presidential Nomination" by Edward Fisher [1844], Gardner Furness (August 30, 1837), G.W.F. (November 18, 1834), and an extract from Virginia Governor John Floyd's message of December 1831.
Includes "Mr. Southard" by H.M. Garland (March 22, 1834), A. Gentzel (March 26, 1831), Gordon (undated), "Annals of Baltimore" by Thomas W. Griffith (undated), J.L.G. (undated), Carlos Hammer-ón (July 24, 1831), P.S.V. Hamot (February 5, 1839), Hinton Rowan Helper (November 15, 1858) Addison Hill (January 16, 1838), John Z. Hitch (May 1, 1834), [Joseph] Hopkinson (1837), and G.R. Hunter (July 1839).
Includes writings by Andrew Jackson (undated), Andrew Jackson (circa 1831), "Constitutionality of the Bank of the U.S. no. 1" by Andrew Jackson (undated), "[?] by Diplomacy" and "United States Bank" by George Jackson (undated), and James H.C. Johnson (August 26, 1843). Most of the Andrew Jackson writings do not appear to be in Jackson's hand.
Includes writings by George Kesling (June 23, 1841), L. Landers (undated), a fragment from Thomas Lawson (December 13, 1842), "How Richard M. Johnson" by John Lewis (February 23, 1837), "To the Public" by William B. Lewis (undated), Harry Lindsly (June 3, 1840), a fragment from John Lyon (undated), Johnston Lykins (September 21, 1834), and John W. Leod (undated).
Includes "Our Minister in Colombia" (January 30, 1832), "An Error Explained" (undated), "The Late Cabinet" (undated), and two untitled letters (undated).
Includes "Prejudice against Virginians securing office" (April 26, 1843) and "Review of the 'defined position' of Senator Rives" (1839).
Includes writings by James Mcdowell (August 24, 1834), M. M. (August 1, 1831), B. McCaffrey (October 23, 1844), A.W. Maclean (October 21, 1844), Thomas M.S. McKennan (1838), McMell (undated), Madison (July 7, 1831), "[?] for a Prospectus," by J.L. Martin (undated), Joseph Martin (July 18, 1835), Virgil Maxcy (undated), James Might (March 9, 1831), Thomas P. Moore (September 18, 1834), "Objection to the Constitution U.S." by Colonel George Mason (undated), and transcriptions of writings by and about Chief Justice John Marshall (1791-1855).
Includes a letter to the editor by John Norvell (August 13, 1831), J.M. Nab (September 15, 1835), "To the Honorable K. Polk, Chairman of the Commitee of Ways and Means," by Necker (February 24,1834), Richard N. Neveatt (undated), A.O.P. Nicholson (undated), John Milton Niles (undated), "Mr. Calhoun" by Christian Neck (undated), and "Remarks of Mr. Noland on the passage of the Bill to suppress Dueling" as transcribed from the Norfolk Gazette (1810).
Includes writings by Daniel T. Patterson (undated), William Paxton (April 23, [1834]), Amos Peabody (September 6, 1836), W.R. Penn (October 16, 1838), "Elegy on the death of Mrs. Rachel Jackson" by Benjamin E. Phanes (November 15, 1833), Thomas H. Pitts (March 8, 1834 and June 2, 1832), "Mr. Burke's Repent" by E.R. Potter (January 11, 1845), "To the Natives of Fairfax," by John Powell (undated), "The Indians - Frontier Defenses," found with J.R. Poinsett (undated), "A Matrimonial Adventure [?]," by J.P. (undated), and "On the treatment of Cholera" by J. Parkin (July 1832).
Three untitled writings by the same author with the initials "O.P.Q."
Includes writings by Philip Rainey (November 21, 1831), Jonathan J. Renner (undated), "A new song on an old subject" by Samuel Phillips Reynolds (February 10, 1834), Thomas Richmond (February 2, 1831), and James Ronaldson (undated).
Includes writings by J. de Paula Santander (June 11, 1831), H.C. Scott (July 14, 1840), Robert Scrogin (January 16, 1832), "Voice of the South" by Jack Shackleford (undated), "Doty and the Sioux Treaty" by Jonathan P. Sheldon (circa 1841), "On Our Agriculture" by Joseph L. Smith (undated), Thomas Jefferson Smith (undated), W. Smith (undated), Baron Stackelberg (August 21, 1834), John C. Stone (June 5, 1834), "The Public Domain" (July 4, 1834) and "The President's Protest" (undated) by James Neal Swouga, and writings related to Judge Charles Shaler (1834-1835).
Includes "To the Freemen of Maryland," by William S. Taneyhill (October 24, 1836), "The Prescriptive System- James H. Covens and the Patriot Clique," by John B. Taylor (July 20, 1841), [William] Terrell (undated), George Tenan (May 23, 1840), George Thomas (December 10, 1832), G. Thompson (undated), John Tipton (1836?), and "Leslie Combs" by George J. Trotter (September 1, 1832).
Includes writings by Samuel Van Camper (November 30, 1842), "Removal of the deposites" by Wallace (undated), Alphonso Wetmore (October 8, 1836), C.H.W. Wharton (July 9, 1832), John H. Wheeler (July 1, 1834), J. Williams (undated), R.H. William (September 30, 1837), R.K. Williams (undated), George F. Wilson (undated), and Levi Woodbury (undated).
Arranged chronologically.
Includes "Extract from a debate in the Virginia Convention" (1829), "To the People" (1832), and anonymous letters to the editor and corrections.
Includes "Mr. Adams remarks on Heister petitions which were reformed" (1833), "Union of unpolluted Democracy - to the Emporer Nicholas & his Counsil" (February 22, 1834), "Statements of balances of Naval appropriations which remained in the Treasury on the first of September 1834," and anonymous writings and letters to the editor.
Includes "Extract of a letter from a gentleman residing at Key West to his friend in this city" (January 15, 1839), and other anonymous or unidentified letters to the editor.
Includes a poems titled "The Brave" (August 1841) and "Address to a Shinplaster" (June 24, 1841), an essay titled "Romancing" (1842, on Washington Irving), responses to articles published in other newspapers, anonymous letters to the editor, and a group of letters and essays from the same author, including those titled, "Sir Robert Peel...", "The New Secretary of State," and "The Glentworth Pamphlet of Mr Clay's 'Signal Victory'."
Includes writings titled "Chesapeake and Ohio Canal," "Natural Law and Crisis," "Consular System," "The Navy and 'Innez Barbor[?]' for old sailers," "A Patriot of the Revolution has fallen to the Tomb," "Aye stand erect - a Parody," "Superb Attraction," "The Mediterranean Squadron," "Pennsylvania," "What Shadows we are - and what Shadows we pursue" (Burke), "Long-Lately sung in this city at a recent meeting of the Cabal some time formed to dissolve the Union - by a prominent conspirator, with unbounded applause," "The Old Flannel Petticoat," "Declaration of Independence No. 2 by the inhabitants of the City of Washington" (Thomas Jefferson), "Remarks of a Foreigner in the United States - III. Laws and Time," "Great Attraction! W. Kennedy's Benefit!!," "Editorial remarks upon the 8th wonder from 'The Ohio Statesman'," "A Statement of allowances owed to Mr. Williams on the settlements of his accounts," "Public Lands," and "An act providing for the graduation and reduction of the price of the public lands."
Includes untitled writings and anonymous letters to the editor.
Includes untitled writings and letters to the editor.
Arranged alphabetically by topic.
Includes a description of proceedings and vote count for a petition to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia (January 26, 1835), a document with notes about the abolition of slavery in various United States territories from 1819 to 1833, and Philip Doddridge's report on debates over the abolition of slavery (December 12, 1831).
Includes writings titled "Black Hawk" and "Georgia Case" (April 1, 1832), an interrogation of Hiram Todd (July 1836), and anonymous writings and letters to the editor regarding Black Hawk, Pontiac, American Indian removal policies, colonization programs related to African Americans, and wars between white settlers and Native Americans, including writings about the Sauk, Creek, and Ottawa peoples.
Includes anonymous writings and letters to the editor about the Second Bank of the United States. Printed materials include a supplement to the Globe (July 19, 1832) that contains President Andrew Jackson's veto message regarding the Bank Bill, a circular titled "Resolutions Passed at the Great Meeting of the Friends of the Administration and Opponents to the United States Bank, at Faneuil Hall, March 14, 1834," and a copy of Bill S. 40 (24th Congress, 2nd Session) regarding the removal of deposits from the United States Bank (1836). There are also writings titled "A Sketch of the Treasury System" (1837), "Statements regarding the judgement of the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana in the case of the Bank v. Lawson" (June 22, 1837), "Federal Bank Celebrations in Georgetown, D.C.," "United States Bank - A Text of the Intelligencer, United States, and National Gazettes," "Benedict Arnold and Mordecai the Jew: A Parallel," "To the Honorable William L. May," "Governor Campbell's Message," "Contract of Public Money," "State of the Case," and "Bank of the United States."
Includes writings titled "Bank facilities for land speculators," "A Voice from Ohio," "Communication to the Senate on March 2nd, 1811" ("Clay's report against allowing time to the Bank"), "Turning to Clay," "Bankrupt Law," "Of Public Moneys in Ohio and Indiana," "The Treasury Order," "The Senate's Bank Committee," "Artificial Security and High Prices," "U.S. Bank Stock," "Bank United States," "Bank of the United States," "Evils of the Banking System," "An Address on Paper Money," "Demand of the Bank upon Government," "The True Issue," "Office Holders," "New York Journal of Commerce," "The Albany Regency," "The Divorce," and other anonymous writings and letters to the editor.
Includes a statement from Amos Lane (April 20, 1836), "Proceedings on abolition in 1828 and 1829, with extracts from Alexander's report," "Poindexter's Resolution," "Motion submitted by Mr. Poindexter," "Extract from Mr. Clay's speech in reply to General Hayne" (February 1832), "Mr. Ritchie and his influence" (August 10, 1832), "Senate Journal - Synopsis of the abolition question in the Senate" (1836), "Pickney's Resolution" (1836), "To Mr. Slade, M.C. from Vermont" (March 28, 1840), "A thank you for Mr. Duncan's speech" (April 10, 1840), "Mr. Poindexter and Mr. Moore of the Senate, and M. M. Noah and James Nathan Webb," "About Bouldin and Rives of Va.," "Mr. Poindexter and his writings," "Extract of a letter from a distinguished gentleman of Virginia, of the old republican school on the President's protest," "Extract of a letter from a Gentleman of Virginia," "Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster," "Mr. Hill," and "Mr. Ward's Speech on the 4th of July Celebration." Also includes anonymous letters and drafts of articles, including writings about various members of Congress, including Senators Henry Clay and George Poindexter, letters directed at members of Congress, a eulogy for Judge William R. King, and an account written by James Blair of the nomination of S.D. Hays as Surveyor General of Public Lands.
Contains various writings and extracts regarding congressional printing, including one titled "Extract from N.P.T. to Mr. Madison."
Contains various writings and letters to the editor about John C. Calhoun, including those titled "Mr. Calhoun - and his new Deputy Mr. Dole," and "Vice President and his correspondence," among others.
Includes writings titled "The opinion of a Western gentleman of distinguish and talents on the President's late Treasury Order requiring... of public lands" (February 21, 1837), "Banks without Bank notes," "The Specie Order," "Branch Mints," "Sound Currency," "Supression of Small Notes," "Remarks on the speech of Mr. Webster in Congress on Currency" (November 1837), "Suppression of Specie Payments," and "Currency or Money," along with other untitled writings and anonymous letters to the editor.
Includes writings titled "The Extra Telegraph," "Hear any talk of wool?," "Mr. Monroe and the Telegraph," "The Infamous Globe," "A Series of Articles on Duff Green on Telegraph Style," and "Duff Green's Predictions," along with anonymous letters to the editor.
Includes writings titled "To the Honorable John M. Patton," "Anecdote," "The Verdict of the people on the New Jersey Congressional election," "To the People of the United States - The Presidential Election I-VII" by Patrick Henry (February 1836), "To Philip P. Barbour, Esquire," "War, Pestilence and Famine," and "Tories!!," meeting minutes from a Democratic Republican Meeting taken by Alonzo Cressy, and various untitled writings, extracts, and letters to the editor.
Consists of an essay titled "Sketch of New Granada," an essay about the Belgian legation, and a copy of a report by United States Ambassador to Spain George W. Erving.
Includes several anonymous writings, extracts, and letters to the editor regarding France, including an essay titled "Washington and Bonaparte" and a bound collection of extracts of articles from other newspapers including the Intelligencer, the U.S. Telegram, the Philadelphia Gazette, the Boston Daily Advertiser, and the Baltimore Chronicle (December 4-16, 1834).
Includes an address titled "New Year's Address" and several anonymous letters to the editor.
Includes extracts titled "From the Journals of the House of Commons / From the Journals of the House of Lords" (1641-1768, transcribed later), "From the United Service Journal" (London, February 1836), and "History of British India Vol. III pages 56, 57"; writings titled "The Working Class of Great Britain," "Balance of Trade" (April 5, 1832), "Settlement of Accounts," "Lord Melbourne and Mrs. Norton" (circa 1836), "England," "Ship Money," and "The Boundary Question;" along with other calculations and writings.
Includes writings and extracts titled "Reform Advocated," "Philosophical Miscellanies..." (1838), "Reasons Against Jacksonism and ways to prove or disprove them," "Born to Command," "Stronger than the Strongest," "Signs of the Times," "Ode Written for the Celebration of the 4th of March, 1828" by Harriet Gouch[?], "General Jackson North and South No. II," an extract by Thomas Butler from the National Intelligencer (1814-1815), and "The President's House," D. L. Barringer's account of Andrew Jackson's conversation with Colonel Danforth (April 1832), an untitled essay by Alexander Hunter, copies of indentures (1801), and anonymous writings, lists, and letters to the editor.
Includes a document titled "Conversation with the President" (February 24, 1832) and other anonymous writings, extracts, and letters to the editor.
Includes writings and extracts titled "The Union it must be preserved" (March 2, 1837), "On Nullifaction: The Old man and his Sons," "Parallel Cases," "A Horizontal Tariff," "The Crisis No. 1 - To the Freemen of Maryland," "The Effects of Duties upon the importing of Foreign Manufactures" (Babbage), "Pennsylvania to South Carolina," and other anonymous writings and letters to the editor.
Includes writings titled "General Jackson's Religious Opinions" (September 1, 1832), "A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Brownlee and the Rev. George Bourne of New York," and "To Jews in North America, particularly those now residing in the United States, and their territories," and several other anonymous writings and letters to the editor.
Consists of several anonymous writings and letters to the editor.
Includes writings and extracts titled "Whigs and Tories" (September 1, 1834), "The St. Louis Whig Celebration of the Battle of Fort Meigs" (May 5, 1840), "Log! Cabins!! Hard Cider!!! Koon Skins!!!!," "Harrison Reform in Florida," "Incantation for a Whig Election from the rear Melodrama of the 'Hard Cider Suckers'," "Choice Extracts from Whig Chronicles," "I would not be a Whig," "Notes of a conversation with Col. Croghan," "The Whigs of 1834," "The Richmond Whig," and "Mr. Webster's Letter to [?], communicated by a Whig" (1840), and other anonymous writings and letters to the editor. Includes articles about the William Henry Harrison and John Tyler administrations.
Consists of a partial manuscript draft (pages 8-14) of a long tract regarding various offenses and rifts between John Henry Eaton (1790-1856) and other members of Andrew Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet. In the tract, Eaton accuses his fellow Cabinet members of slander, as well as of excluding him from the Cabinet.
Consists of a manuscript list of recommendations regarding arrangements for a proposed publication titled The Washington Review.
Manuscript essay regarding General William Orlando Butler.
Includes an essay titled "The Previous Question" and related notes regarding debates over the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, along with other loose notes.
Manuscript comments on the Election of 1856.
Includes a manuscript essay titled "The Vice Presidency" and an untitled manuscript essay fragment.
Includes an essay titled "Ashes, Not fire, in the 'Southern Heart'" (March 12, 1865) and undated notes titled "Bentonian queries to [?]"
Contains correspondence between Blair family members, political figures, and people associated with the Globe.
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Contains miscellaneous documents relating to the Blair family.
Includes papers regarding a court case and petition to Congress; an ALS by John C. Calhoun (1823), and other official correspondence regarding Charles Wilkins.
Includes: U.S. vs. Thomas Fillebrown (1829); Extract from Declaration of Colonel Anthony Crockett (1832); a document concerning Joseph Nourse, signed by L.S. Smith (1831); Extract of Minutes of Washington [Religious?] Society, signed by N. Callan, Jr. (1832); Recommendation for R.J. Powell, copy, signed by George Bomford (1839); Receipt for Mr. Vance (1851); Abstract of letters concerning colonization in South America (1863); a document concerning Franklin Minor, Esq., as administrator of an estate (1866); a package receipt for Isaac Jerome, Jr. (1866); a passport for Mrs. Martha Stanard (1865); a bet on a gubernatorial election; power of attorney to Hyman Grate for shares in the Northern Bank of Kentucky; "A Mahometan Sermon;" and a manuscript map, possibly of James Blair.
Contains miscellaneous empty envelopes and billing slips.
Contains mainly letters to Jackson by figures in politics and government including James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, Levi Woodbury, Thomas Hart Benton, James Buchanan, Benjamin Franklin Butler, and John C. Calhoun, as well as some of Jackson's writings and documents.
Contains a journal by Thomas Gist and others during a trip down the Mississippi, and letters and documents by members of the Gist and Lee families, including Samuel Phillips Lee, Blair's son-in-law.
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Nephew of Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797)
Includes papers of Francis Preston Blair discovered after the collection had been organized.
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Contains drafts of articles by Blair for the Evening Post and two speeches.
Contains miscellaneous letters to Blair including several to John C. Rives.
Contains miscellaneous documents of Blair.
Contains material about the Cecil and Davis families, the Blair and Fenwick families, and the Plank Road in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Contains miscellaneous printed matter of interest to Blair.
Contains a letter from F. A. Dick to Montgomery Blair (1862) and a letter from Hiram Barton to James Guthrie (1855).