The papers of Henry Clay
Contributors: United States. National Archives and Records Service.; Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.
Series: National Archives microfilm publications ;; microcopy no. 212
Publisher: National Archives and Records Service
Published: 1957
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 -- Correspondence; Legislators -- United States -- Correspondence; Statesmen -- United States -- Correspondence; United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
Genres: Correspondence.
Notes: Chiefly correspondence, together with drafts of Clay's dispatches and instructions as U.S. secretary of state.  Topics relate primarily to politics and to most phases of Clay's public career, including his years in Congress, service as commissioner at Ghent, the elections of 1824, 1832, and 1844, tariffs, the Bank of the United States, the Panama Congress, slavery, nullification, public lands, Whig politics, and other issues of national political interest.
Reels 1-8 reproduce original material found in containers 1-34 of the Henry Clay papers in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division; reels 10-19 reproduce documents presumably in containers 41-49 of the Henry Clay papers; reels 20-23 reproduce Clay documents found in various other collections of the Library of Congress. An additional reel was added in 1971 which reproduces the card index to the correspondence contained in the Henry Clay papers.
A supplemental reel of documents filmed by National Archives and Records Service constitutes reel 23 of the microfilm edition, reproducing materials omitted in the earlier filming, and is available under shelf no.: Microfilm 17,343.1 <MssRR>.
Microfilm of the card index filmed in 1971 by Library of Congress Photoduplication Service constitutes reel 24 of the microfilm edition and is available under shelf no.: Microfilm 13,789.1 <MssRR>.
Reel guide to the microfilm edition available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.