Photocopy of a newspaper report of a sketch of Aaron Burr. Baldwin family letters, 1838-1865. Ala. They married in 1839. The couple continued to correspondence whenever he traveled to New Orleans, New York, Mobile, Winchester, Va., and other locations. There are also letters of the immediate family and W. H. and Alexander M. Garber of Sumter County, Ala. From July to October 1854, Baldwin moved to San Francisco and wrote to his wife until she traveled out there to be with him.
Correspondence continues with other members of the family back in Alabama.
There are letters, 1860-1863, of Baldwin and his son, Joseph G. Baldwin, Jr., who was in Virginia City, Nevada Territory, where the family had mining and other interests. Baldwin traveled to New York in 1863 and visited with Abraham Lincoln. Other correspondents in addition to members of the Baldwin family are Reverdy Johnson, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Milliard Fillmore, John B. Felton, and others.