David Davis papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Description and travel; Civil rights; Elections; Impeachment; Slavery; United States; United States. Congress; Constitutional law; Social conditions; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Law; African Americans; United States. Supreme Court; History
Description: Correspondence of Davis addressed to his brother-in-law, Julius Rockwell, relating to political and social issues of the period.  Davis discusses subjects such as Abraham Lincoln, African American social and political rights, the Civil War, Andrew Johnson and the impeachment proceedings, Reconstruction, and slavery.  Other subjects include elections, national politics, issues before Congress, matters under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court, and family affairs including travels in the South.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mrs. Allen McLane, 1915.

Purchase, 1930-2007.

U.S. Supreme Court justice and U.S. senator from Illinois.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.