Scope and content Collection consists mainly of letters and notes on routine financial and government matters. Correspondents include Daniel S. Dickinson, Gideon Granger, Cadwallader R. Colden, Francis Granger, Hamilton Fisk (on letterhead of the Department of State, Washington), L. P. Watson (on letterhead of the Executive Mansion, Albany), and Eliphalet Nott. One of the items from Hamilton Fisk is a letter appointing Dorman B. Eaton to the civil service (April 23, 1873); another is a letter to Charles B....

Scope and content Routine letters: from John C. Spencer to Weare C. Little, written in Albany (New York), April 17, 1845, asking Little to ask the publisher to supply some pages missing from Spencer's copy of Peters' Digest of Cases in the Courts of the United States; from Amos Hall to Nathaniel Gorham in Canandaigua, June 30, 1793, about looking over a piece of land owned by Captain Taft; from Daniel S. Dickinson to W. B. Donlon (?), Albany, March 24, 1862, complying with Donlon's request for an autograph;...