John Leeds Bozman papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Canals; Interoceanic Canals
Description: Correspondence, speeches, writings, notebooks, Bozman and Kerr families papers, scrapbook, surveys for an isthmian canal, and other papers pertaining to John Leeds Kerr, John Bozman Kerr, J.S. Bozman, William Vans Murray, Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek, and others.  Includes John Leeds Bozman's poetry, John Bozman Kerr's unpublished biography of Daniel Carroll, Daniel Carroll's will, and family papers and correspondence.  Subjects include political, legal, and financial developments in the early history of Maryland, particularly the Eastern Shore; Central America; and affairs of the Bozman, Kerr, and Goldsborough families.  Correspondents include John Leeds Bozman, Charles Goldsborough, Robert Goldsborough, John Bozman Kerr, and John Leeds Kerr.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 1909.

Historian and lawyer of Maryland.

Collection material in English.

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