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Lewis, William Berkeley 1784-1866

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Works: 43 works in 47 publications in 1 language and 70 library holdings
Genres: Letters 
Classifications: e340.c68,
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1 edition published in in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
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Collection centered around John Coffee (1772-1833), clerk of the county court of Rutherford County, Tenn., Creek War general, Indian commissioner, and surveyor-general of the Mississippi Territory and Alabama lands. Papers consist primarily of correspondence for the families of Coffee, Donelson, Dyas, Hutchings, Jackson, and Martin. Approximately 1,000 items make up the correspondence of John Coffee, the bulk of which is incoming and includes 185 letters to Coffee from Andrew Jackson. Subjects dealt with in the Coffee letters include the Battle of New Orleans; treaties with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek Indians; surveying of Indian lands; land speculation; the Cypress Land Company; national politics with special reference to John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and Andrew Jackson; the Peggy Eaton affair; Tennessee politics with special reference to John Bell, William Carroll, Felix Grundy, and James Winchester; Alabama lands; cotton; salt speculation; the University of Nashville; the Burr Conspiracy; and many other topics.
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Papers, 1799 - 1869 and 1933, 1963, 1977-1978; chiefly correspondence, commissions and certificates re Thompson's diplomatic mission as minister to Mexico, 1842-1844, including papers re claims against, treaty with, and prisoners held by Mexico; political correspondence re national and state affairs; and commissions of Thompson and of his father, Waddy Thompson, Sr.; places represented include Washington, D.C.; Columbia and Greenville, S.C.; Georgia; Virginia; Frankfort (Kentucky); Mexico; and elsewhere. Family papers discuss household and plantation expenses.
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Papers collected by Charles Carter Lee include papers of General Light-Horse-Harry Lee, Major Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, and John Penn Lee.
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A collection of letters, autographs, and photographs of prominent Americans, including:
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Concerning the holding of a national convention.
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Introducing Mr. Gordon who has some business in the Land Office.
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Has gotten the President to appoint Brady as acting auditor. Lewis is anxious that the Indian business be kept up, and has directed action toward that end.
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Letter from William B. Lewis, Treasury Department, to William Wilkins, Secretary of War, dated August 22, 1844 discussing decisions made relevant to the claim of William H. Thomas for supplies he provided for the Cherokees in 1836. Contains the excerpt of a letter sympathetic to the claim, written by C. A. Harris, Commissioner, Office of Indian Affairs on March 26, 1838.
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Letter dated February 3, 1844 from W.B. Lewis in the Second Auditor's Office of the Treasury Department to William H. Thomas concerning government reimbursment for J.W. King for his services in boarding Cherokee Indians and their horses at Murphey, North Carolina, during a meeting they attended concerning the New Echota treaty of 1835. The money was paid to Thomas, the legal representative of the Eastern Cherokees, for King.
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Small collection of four letters written by Thomas L. McKenney to various correspondents between 1820 and 1843.
 
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Alternative Names
Lewis, W. B. (William Berkeley), 1784-1866
Languages
English (49)