Scope and Contents Following up with Cobb on the Flournoy affair, Crawford seeks to summarize his relations with Calhoun, distinguishing their personal feelings from the attitudes of their respective followers. He describes in considerable detail a conversation with Calhoun of 12 October, touching on prospects for the elections of 1824. He concludes: "It is certainly not my interest, that he should be unfriendly to me. It is not my interest that he should be irritated by my friends, even if he is unfriendly,...

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In this retained copy, Crawford informs his supporters "that I have in my possession proof much stronger than any he [Governor John Clark of Georgia] has employed against me of the truth of my charge against him of interfering to procure the recommendations from the Grand Jury in favor of Mr. Griffin in 1803." Clark was an old enemy of Crawford's; the two fought a duel in 1806.

Scope and Contents In 1822 Cuthbert, a former U.S representative from Georgia, was elected to the Georgia house and appointed U.S. commissioner to the Creek and Cherokee. The group includes two letters from Cuthbert to Crawford, dated 6 and 7 August, and a retained draft of Crawford's reply (8 August). Cuthbert claims that stories harmful to his reputation are circulating, harking back to an 1820 incident in which he supposedly asked Crawford for a loan and was rebuffed. Crawford provides his recollection of...

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Re Crawford's departure from office.

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Seeking recommendation for a Treasury Department clerkship.

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At the time of writing James Barbour of Virginia (1775-1842) was U.S. Secretary of War. In this long letter he counters Crawford's stated criticisms of the "Creek Treaty" (the Treaty of Indian Springs), ratified by the Senate in March 1825.

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

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

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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.

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...

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Docketed "For Wm. Maclure."

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

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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.

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Bearing the signature of William Matthews.

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

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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.

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By the authority of John Forsyth, governor.