Amasa J. Parker papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; History; Theater; Indians of North America; Government relations; Social life and customs; United States. Congress. Senate; Politics and government; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); United States; United States. Congress; Elections, 1876; Dueling; Description and travel
Description: Chiefly letters written by Parker while serving in the U.S. Congress to his wife, Harriet Langdon Roberts Parker, in Delhi, N.Y., describing his trip to Washington, the city, the Capitol building, and his impressions of John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster.  Other topics include dueling, Indian affairs, politics, and Washington social life and theater.  Also includes letters written while Parker was a lawyer in New York State and a newspaper illustration (1875) announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate from New York.
Notes: Open to research.

In part, typewritten transcripts. [S.l.].

Gift, Huybertie Pruyn Hamlin, 1942.

Lawyer, judge, and U.S. representative from New York.

Collection material in English.

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