John Fairfield correspondence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 900
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; Aroostook War, 1839; Politics and government; Boundaries; United States. Congress; Great Britain; Great Britain. 1842 Aug. 9.; United States; Dueling; Foreign relations; History
Description: Principally letters (1835-1847) from Fairfield to members of his family in Saco, Me., while he served as governor and in the U.S. Congress relating to political affairs in Maine and the U.S., the administration of James K. Polk, the boundary dispute between Maine and Canada leading to the Aroostook War and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842, and dueling in Congress.  Includes material relating to social life in Augusta, Me., and Washington, D.C., and to family and personal affairs.  Correspondents include Hugh Johnston Anderson, Nathan Clifford, Stephen A. Emery, Amos Nourse, Ether Shepley, C.R. Williams, and Reuel Williams.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 19,264.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1986.

Gift, Martha W. Fairfield, 1913.

Purchase, 1943.

U.S. senator and representative and governor of Maine.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009017