Peter Force papers
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- Title:
- Peter Force papers
- Date:
- 1825 to 1856
- Creator:
- Force, Peter, 1790-1868
- Description:
- Collection includes miscellaneous letters, including one from Thomas Loraine McKenney, 1825 August 15, concerning John C. Calhoun's role in passage of a treaty between the Creek Indians and the state of Georgia; a letter of introduction from George Perkins Marsh, 1849 September 5, on behalf of James Meacham, his successor as representative from Vermont; letters from David Lowry Swain, 1854 March 29 and 1856 August 14, sending Force writings on North Carolina history; and a letter from James Cochran Dobbin, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1856 May 31, concerning a suggestion made by Swain.
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- Subject:
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- Creek Indians -- Treaties
- Historians -- Correspondence
- Indians of North America -- Treaties
- Legislators -- Vermont
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
- Dobbin, James C. (James Cochran), 1814-1857
- Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882
- McKenney, Thomas L. (Thomas Loraine), 1785-1859
- Meacham, James, 1810-1856
- Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
- North Carolina -- History -- Sources
- United States -- History -- Sources
- Washington (D.C.)
- Format:
- correspondence
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 6 items
- Digital Collection:
- Peter Force papers, 1825-1856.
- Catalog Record:
- https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE000857087
- Rights:
- Free Re-UseNo Copyright - United States
- Identifier:
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- 000857087
- secst0915
- ark:/87924/r4xk8gd5x
- 6b7b1070-4c0f-4504-9da5-bb2e43d7048e
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- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4xk8gd5x
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