John C. Calhoun papers in the Library of Congress
Contributors: United States. National Archives and Records Service.; Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
Publisher: National Archives, National Archives and Records Service
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Calhoun, John C. 1782-1850 -- Correspondence; Legislators -- United States -- Correspondence; Statesmen -- United States -- Correspondence; United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
Description: South Carolina statesmen. Correspondence and family paper concerning antebelleum politics and Calhoun's public life. Many letters deal with private affairs, particularly finances and management of his family's plantations in Alabama.
Notes: Reproduces the John C. Calhoun collection and Calhoun manuscripts as selected from other collections in the custody of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849); also includes Calhoun's last Senate speech (March 4, 1850) pertaining to the Compromise of 1850; list of rules (1828) for the U.S. Commissioner of Public Buildings; and other papers.
Finding aid to the microfilm edition available for use in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.