Item Nos. 1003-1022, 1870

Containers:
Box 4, Folder 2
Scope and content:

Topics include:

Politics: Items 1004-1020 ("disabilities" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a "colony of men" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul)

Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family)

Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)

Access and use

Location of collection:
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
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Morgantown, WV 26506
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Phone: (304) 293-3536
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