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Collection Summary
Title | Lewis H. Machen family papers, 1802-1938 |
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Span Dates | 1802-1938 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1830-1879) |
ID No. | MSS86777 |
Creator | Machen, Lewis H. (Lewis Henry), 1790-1863 |
Extent | 5,000 items ; 33 containers ; 12 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | Clerk of the United States Senate and farmer of Fairfax County, Virginia. Chiefly family correspondence of Lewis H. Machen relating to personal matters and national politics prior to the Civil War, especially slavery and the Compromise of 1850, and mentioning John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Daniel Webster. Also includes other correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, and miscellaneous papers. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001030 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm77086777 |