Box 3

Scope and Contents

Includes letters of: Asa Getchell; William H. Mills; M.L. Appleton; John H. Rice; S.F. Humphrey discussing the outcome of the elections of 1852; Israel Washburn stating his belief that General Scott would be the Whig candidate for President; Israel Washburn commenting upon the Whig national convention, platform and candidate; William G. Clark.

Scope and Contents Includes letters of Joseph Bartlett; C. T. Packard; John H. Gilman; Hiram Chapman; Johon H. Lorong discussing the Kansas-Nebraska Act; Owen Currier; Lewis O. Cowen; R. Hanly; Ambrose C. Flint; David W. Chapman; George W. Wilcox; John F. H. Hall; John H. Rice; discussing the Kansas-Nebraska Bill; Albert W. Paine; Israel Washburn; Warren C. Plummer, John J. Perry; George W. Ingersoll; E. G. Carswell; Samuel C. Fessenden; L. G. Philbrook; Theodore C. Woodman; Increase Blake; Joseph H. Clark; E....

Scope and Contents Includes letters of: Edward Kent discussing the desirability of placing Governor Hamlin back in the Senate and thus risk the breakup of the party; H.C. Prentiss; Edwin Noyes discussing an act authorizing the consolidation of Maine railroads; Stephen Lowell; H.G.C. Case; C.H.B. Woodbury discussing the selection of Hamlin as U.S. Senator, with some mention of Lot Morrill and F.O.J. Smith; Nathaniel Chamberlain discussing Hamlin’s selection and attempts to defeat liquor laws; Charles J. Talbot...

Scope and Content note From the Collection:

Primarily personal and business papers consisting of legal and political correspondence, civil commissions, court docket books, accounts, and legal documents; also included are papers of Peleg and Charles Peleg Chandler, shipping and business papers of John and Augustus Hale, and a diary of Emily Sarah (Chandler) Jones.

Scope and Content note From the Collection:

Primarily personal and business papers consisting of legal and political correspondence, civil commissions, court docket books, accounts, and legal documents; also included are papers of Peleg and Charles Peleg Chandler, shipping and business papers of John and Augustus Hale, and a diary of Emily Sarah (Chandler) Jones.