John C. Spencer correspondence
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Debt; Telegraph; Real property; Law; History
Description: ALS (1822 November 18) written by Spencer to James McKown concerning a debt, ALS (1823 April 15) to Bowen Whiting about New York state legal matters, ALS (1840 November 20) to Erastus Corning relating to the purchase of a house, and draft of a letter (1843 March 14) to Samuel Finley Breese Morse approving plans for the installation of a nationwide telegraph system.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Simon Gratz, 1919.

Purchase, 1901.

U.S. representative from New York, U.S. secretary of war and secretary of the treasury, and New York public official.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.