Letters relating to local political patronage; a letter to Governor Fenton (April 27, 1865) stating that the people of the county would appreciate his veto of the bill to raise rates on the New York Central Railroad; letters between Wilder and his assistant assessors in Oneida, Lewis, and Herkimer Counties (N.Y.), and with Clinton L. Merriam, S. T. Miller, L. B. Richardson, and A. H. Laflin, regarding the appointment of John T. Walcott and other assessment problems in general.