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Box 1

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Contains 112 Results:

Letter: Alfred Balch, Sans Souci near Nashville, Tennessee, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, May 1831

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 83
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-83
Scope and Contents

More on the origins of Jackson's enmity for Crawford, dating back to 1818.

Dates: May 1831

Letter: William W. Holt, Augusta, Georgia, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, 9 September 1831

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 86
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-86
Scope and Contents

Responding to a request for a legal opinion.

Dates: 9 September 1831

Letter: John Floyd, Bellevue, Camden County, Georgia, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, 15 September 1831

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 87
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-87
Scope and Contents

John Floyd was a plantation owner in Camden County. He writes to decline his appointment as delegate to an anti-tariff convention in Philadelphia.

Dates: 15 September 1831

Letter fragment: Bolling Hall, n.p., to [William H. Crawford], n.p., undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 89
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-89
Scope and Contents

Conclusion of a letter whose remaining pages deal primarily with Masonry.

Dates: undated

Letter: George M. Troup, Laurens County, Georgia, to William H. Crawford and others, n.p., 11 May 1833

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 91
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-91
Scope and Contents

Declining a nomination from Crawford and others to run for governor of Georgia.

Dates: 11 May 1833

Incoming family letters to William H. Crawford, 1804-1833

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 92
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-92
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Peter Crawford (1804); N. Crawford (1804); David Crawford (1810); John Gerardine (1818 and 1825); Bennett Crawford (1826 and 1831); and Nathan Crawford (1833). David Crawford (1767-1821) and Bennett Crawford (1781-1845) were brothers of William Harris Crawford.

Dates: 1804-1833

Incoming letters to Susanna Gerardin Crawford, 1834-1847

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 93
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-93
Scope and Contents

Susanna Gerardin Crawford was William H. Crawford's wife. Included is one letter from William H. Crawford, written 7 May 1833. Also included are six letters from daughter Caroline Crawford Dudley or from Caroline's own daughters.

Dates: 1834-1847

Correspondence of Caroline Crawford, 1821, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 94
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-94
Scope and Contents

Caroline Crawford (1805-1875) was the oldest child of William and Susanna Crawford.

Dates: 1821, undated

Incoming letters to Eliza Ann Crawford, 1826-1845

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 95
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-95
Scope and Contents

Eliza Ann Crawford (1809-1860) was the third child of William and Susanna Crawford. Included in the folder are letters from sister Caroline Crawford Dudley, niece Mary Dudley, and brother William Bibb Crawford.

Dates: 1826-1845

Correspondence of William Harris Crawford Jr., 1839-1867

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 96
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-96
Scope and Contents

William Harris Crawford Jr. (1813-1883) was the fifth child of William and Susanna Crawford. Included in the folder is a letter describing then death of brother Robert Crawford (1816-1847).

Dates: 1839-1867

Incoming letters to Susan Crawford, 1832-1847

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 97
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-97
Scope and Contents

Susan Crawford (1819-1874) was the seventh child of William and Susanna Crawford. Included in the folder are letters from brother-in-law George Dudley, sister Caroline Crawford Dudley, niece Mary Dudley, and brothers Robert and William Bibb Crawford.

Dates: 1832-1847

Incoming letters to Susan Crawford, 1847-1862

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 98
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-98
Scope and Contents

Included in the folder are letters from siblings Caroline Crawford Dudley, William H. Crawford, Jr., and William Bibb Crawford.

Dates: 1847-1862

Correspondence of William Wyatt Bibb Crawford, 1839, 1867

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 99
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-99
Scope and Contents

William Wyatt Bibb Crawford was the eighth and youngest child of William and Susanna Crawford.

Dates: 1839, 1867

Documents from the Georgia legislature re the impeachment hearings against Charles Tait, 10 November 1806-29 November 1806

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 101
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-101
Scope and Contents

The charges were brought by John Clark against Crawford ally Tait, then judge of the superior court of Georgia's Western Judicial District. The report disapproving charges of impeachment was carried 53 to 3. On 2 December Clark challenged Crawford to a duel.

Dates: 10 November 1806-29 November 1806

Letters and manuscripts forwarded to Crawford by Thomas Sumter, U.S. minister to Portugal, from Rio de Janeiro, 1815

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 103
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-103
Scope and Contents Included are: 1) List of items enclosed (2 pages); 2) Copy of Sumter's note of 25 February 1815 to the Marquês de Aguiar, Portuguese minister of foreign affairs, concerning the governor of Macao's delivery of an American prize to the British, with testimonial of B. C. Wilcocks (2 items, 11 pages); 3) Copy of note written by Manuel Belgrano and Bernardino de Rivadavia, and Sumter's reply, 17-18 January 1815 (4 pages); 4) Copy of a letter of 10 March 1815 from Sumter to American ministers in...
Dates: 1815

Manuscript copy of an agreement between France and the U.S. on whaling rights, 14 February 1819

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 105
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-105
Scope and Contents

In French, bearing the copied signatures of Louis XVIII and the comte Decazes. With docketing in Crawford's hand: "Mr Fox will translate within."

Dates: 14 February 1819

Manuscripts relating to W. H. Crawford's currency report of 1820, 1820

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 106
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-106
Scope and Contents

Includes an unsigned essay entitled "National Currency" commenting favorably on Crawford's report, and four letter fragments (some by Crawford?) treating various aspects of the currency and National Bank issues.

Dates: 1820

W. H. Crawford's share in the Washington Library Company, 1822

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 107
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-107
Scope and Contents

Bearing the signature of William Matthews.

Dates: 1822

William Turpin: Medical advice for W. H. Crawford, 30 September 1824

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 108
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-108
Scope and Contents

Recommending a strong decoction of Artemisia abrotanum (southernwood), used in a bath.

Dates: 30 September 1824

"Thoughts on M Wm. H. Crawford's Letter concerning Inter Mariage with the Indians, by a Ignorant Man", 1825

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 109
Identifier: MSN/EA 0511-109
Scope and Contents

An unpublished pamphlet written in the wake of the 1824 presidential election, supportive of Crawford and his Indian policies from his time as secretary of war, especially his proposal of Indians' intermarriage with whites as preferable to expulsion or extinction.

Dates: 1825