Lucian Barbour papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; Politics and government; Amherst College; United States; United States. Congress. House; White House (Washington, D.C.); Universities and colleges; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, photographs, printed matter, and miscellany. Consists primarily of family correspondence relating to domestic affairs and life in Indianapolis, Ind., and Barbour's service in the 34th Congress.  Also includes letters to his daughter from Civil War soldiers, an account by Mrs. William Watson Wicks of an interview with Martin Van Buren and White House social events, and an 1872 diary kept by Barbour's son, Linus, at Amherst College.  Correspondents include James Buchanan, Schuyler Colfax, and Oliver P. Morton.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mary Folsom Bacon, 1980.

Lawyer and U.S. representative from Indiana.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009318