Whiting Griswold papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Politics and government; Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention (1853); United States; Whig Party (U.S.); Free Soil Party (U.S.); Tunnels; History; Correspondence; Practice of law; Democratic Party (U.S.); American Party; Massachusetts; Political Patronage; Constitutional conventions
Description: Letters to Griswold from various prominent figures relating to such topics as the Whig, Free Soil, and American Parties, the Democratic Party, his legal practice, Massachusetts politics, patronage, the Hoosac Tunnel, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Civil War, and the 1853 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.  Correspondents include Nathaniel P. Banks, George S. Boutwell, Benjamin F. Butler, Caleb Cushing, Benjamin F. Hallett, George F. Hoar, George B. Loring, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, James L. Whitney, and Henry Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 1978.

Lawyer and politician.

Collection material in English.

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