Correspondence, David S. Deering to Rufus Deering, 1836 - 1848

David S. (Seavey?) Deering (1816-1902) was the brother of Rufus Deering. Letters written from Brookville (Pennsylvania), Brooks (Maine), and Barnet (Vermont?), and to Bradford (Maine), Buxton (Maine), Burnt Fort (Georgia). Subjects include lumber, "the people here are a set of heathen ignorant superstitious and bigoted…," a big work contract, anti-mason elections, teaching sleigh, temperance, the comet (of 1843), entering law practice (1843), Henry Clay’s bid for president (1844), David’s marriage to Emeline Lowell ("the finest, prettiest, and best girl in the Commonwealth" in July of 1846), and anti-abolition.