The Hamilton circuit covered Hamilton, Washington, Spring Valley, Pleasant Hill, Frankford, and Grand Meadow. German Conferences of the Methodist Church of America. Individuals Edward Eggleston papers, 1856-1866. Many letters exchange ideas with other early eminent Methodist clergymen regarding Hamline University in St. Paul, annual Methodist conferences, and church politics, and reveal the clergy's attitudes toward such contemporary issues as slavery, suffrage for blacks and theology. The correspondence from 1932 to 1949 is mainly political.
Later correspondence becomes more topically diffuse.
Principal correspondents include Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, editor J. Russell Larcombe, opera star Jerome Hines, Minnesota governor Harold E. Stassen, publisher John Cowles, Minnesota Congressman Sydney Anderson, Governor Luther Youngdahl, Warren Burger, Herbert Hoover, Leva Marx, writer James Reston, Major General Wilton B. Persons, Fred Seaton, Fr. Anselm Strittmatter, editor Dan Whetstone, Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines, and John Crosby. Edward McCann and family papers, 1872-1966. Correspondence relating to McCann's church work and parish assignments as a Methodist pastor and supply minister in many towns in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Included also are family letters, marriage licenses, religious tracts, records of church services and family photographs.