Box 2

Secretary of State Webster (1782-1852) asks Hoffman (1794-1856), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to release unspecified papers once the judges have no further use for them.

Letter to his son Fletcher Webster (1813-1862), chief clerk in the State Department, respecting payment to Spanish claimants.

Order of books for the library at the State Department.

Letter to Stubbs, superintendent and disbursing clerk at the State Department, concerning a newspaper account of a Maine legislature report about claims on the United States Treasury.

Fragment of an envelope addressed to Alfred Dorr in New York, attached to a printed State Department form, filled out in manuscript, from Webster to New York Governor Washington Hunt (1811-1867, informing him boxes with published legsilative and executive documents and the Annals of Congress, in addition to several volumes of "Adams' Works," will be delivered to him.

From New York publisher Weed (1797-1882) to an unknown recipient, enclosed with a letter from the late New York governor on the subject of Barron's pardon.

Quaker poet and abolitionist Whittier (1807-1892) writes respecting a charitable donation.

Writes he is too old and ill to make any new literary engagements.

Boston lawyer and philanthropist Winthrop (1809-1894; Harvard AB 1828) seeks a copy of Diplomatic Correspondence.

Wirt (1772-1834), who months earlier stepped down as United States Attorney General, writes to an unknown correspondent that his schedule is too busy for them to meet. The letter is pasted on the recto of a letter from the Secretary of State accompanying copies of the Acts of the First Session of the 31st Congress, dated February 4, 1851.

New York Senator Wright (1795-1847) appeals to Doubleday, agent of the Auburn Prison, to provide assistance in the process of securing a pardon for a constituent's son who was imprisoned for counterfeiting.

Printed form filled out in manuscript by New York Governor Wright appointing commissioners to inspect the Gilboa and Jefferson Turnpike Road.

Governor Wright discusses pardon applications.

Printed form filled out in manuscript by New York Governor Young (1802-1852) appointing commissioners to inspect the Middleton and Dehli Turnpike Road.

Letters of administration granted for the estate of their brother, Balthazar de Haert.

Letters of administration granted for the estate of John Rose of New York.

Contains a catalogue of duplicate autographs in the collection of New York businessman Gordon L. Ford (1823-1891), with George E. Baker's notes in pencil; etchings of Lafayette and Baker; and a program for the 1905-1906 season of the Belasco Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Contract with a Chinese man to take down, remove, and re-erect the flagstaff of the U.S. Consulate in Ningpo, China, translated by American Protestant missionary McCartee (1820–1900).

Order by Pennsylvania Governor Mifflin (1744-1800) to Sheriff Jonathan Penrose to deliver William Delasere of Baltimore, confined in a Philadelphia jail, to Henry Mollior, an agent who would extradite Delasere back to Maryland to face felony charges; also signed by Commonwealth Secretary A.J. Dallas

Miner (1815-1864), founder of the Miner Normal School, also known as the Normal School for Colored Girls, writes about a bill that Williamson, a trustee of the school, paid for grading and paving 20th street in Washington, D.C., and raising funds for a new building. She references Mrs. Stowe's financial difficulties, presumably Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was also a Miner School trustee.

Undated signature of Lawrence (1792-1855), Boston merchant, manufacturer, politician, and statesman, who helped establish the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. 

From Richmond headquarters, General Lee inquires about availability of field carriages and caissons from the North Fayetteville Arsenal for Confederate Army use in Virginia. "They are much needed, and the manufacture of them proceeds slowly," Lee tells North Carolina Governor Willis.