Scope and content Printed form letter from the U.S. Treasury Department (March 22, 1843) to the New York City Commissioners, signed by J.C. Spencer, settling a claim by J. & W. Kelly & Co. for compensation for damage caused by the Great Fire of New York in 1835. Also, a letter from W. (?) L. Macey to Nahum Capen (May 20, 1852), giving a recommendation for Capen's History of Democracy in the United States, sight unseen. Third, a letter from John A. Dix to M. (?) Conrad, head of the War Department...

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Letter from Spencer to Ethan B. Allen, written at Canandaigua, January 12, 1825, concerning the case of Spalding vs. Santoro [?] and Townsend. Also, letter from Rufus King to Thurlow Weed, written at Albany, New York, December 20, 1843, concerning the prospects for repeal of the Bankrupt Act and current local news in Albany and Oneida.

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Letter describing the dull nature of Spencer's reading material as a Congressman, and praising Thomas Jefferson's collection in the Library of Congress. Spencer also describes the social life in his circle in Washington, D.C.

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;...