Alden Partridge papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 650
Subjects: Correspondence; Military education; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; United States Military Academy; American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy; History
Description: Principally letters (1817-1842) received by Partridge from students and their parents relating to educational matters at the United States Military Academy, American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, and other academies with which Partridge was associated from 1808 to 1850; letters and documents concerning military activities during the War of 1812, a dispute between Sylvanus Thayer and Partridge over control of the United States Military Academy (1808-1817) and other administrative matters there, and Partridge's court martial (1816-1818); a library journal; student rolls; and letters or copies of letters written by Partridge, including several to James Monroe.  Correspondents include Edmund Burke, John C. Calhoun, James Gadsden, Hugh Swinton Legaré, Duncan McArthur, J. G. Swift, and Oliver Wolcott.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 14,571.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.

Gift and purchase, 1966-1986.

U.S. Army officer, engineer, educator, and state legislator from Vermont.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009049