Political and social correspondence of prominent New Yorkers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 58

Scope and content

Approximately 400 items including olitical and social letters from James W. Wadsworth, R.H. Walworth, Christopher Morgan, Eli Perry, John V.L. Pruyn, W. McClay, Erastus Corning, G.M. Schuyler, W.E. Robinson, George Law, T.C. Platt, Charles Tracey, and many others.

Dates

1822-1924.

Creator

no primary creator (Person)
Corning, Erastus, 1794-1872. (Person)
Law, George, 1806-1881. (Person)
McClay, W. B. (Person)
Morgan, Christopher, 1808-1877. (Person)
Perry, Eli. (Person)
Platt, Thomas Collier, 1833-1910. (Person)
Pruyn, John V. L. (John VanSchaick Lansing), 1811-1877. (Person)
Robinson, W. E. (Person)
Schuyler, G. M. (Person)
Tracey, Charles, 1847-1905. (Person)
Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1877-1952. (Person)
Walworth, Reuben Hyde, 1788-1867. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

James W. Wadsworth was a U.S. senator from New York. Reuben Hyde Walworth was chancellor of New York State. Christopher Morgan was the New York secretary of state. Erastus Corning was a railroad executive, subsequently mayor of Albany, New York and a Congressman from New York. George Law was a contractor and transportation promoter. Thomas Collier Platt was a Congressman and then a Senator from New York. Charles Tracey was a manufacturer and subsequently a Congressman from New York.