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Correspondence | outgoing, 1852, 1862, inclusive
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Three letters to his wife, Jane (McClellan) Sutherland (1811-1876).
Correspondence | incoming, 1818, 1821-1822, inclusive
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Contains letters from Jacob Cooper, of Livingston, New York (1818); future U.S. Congressman Amasa Junius Parker (1821); and Union College professor Andrew C. Yates.
Correspondence | incoming, 1831-1839, inclusive
Correspondence | incoming, 1840-1849, inclusive
Correspondence | incoming, 1850-1852, inclusive
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Includes a letter (12 August 1852) from Charles P. Curtis, a Boston lawyer and brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, congratulating Sutherland on his Homestead Act speech.
Includes a report (for the quarter ending 16 November 1852) on Sutherland's daughter Emma's progress at Miss Draper's Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut.
Correspondence | incoming, 1853, inclusive
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Includes a letter to Sutherland's wife (28 March 1853) from Judge Emery D. Potter (1804-1896), lawyer, Mayor of Toledo, and U.S. Congressman from Ohio. With an engraved portrait of Potter, and his obituary.
Correspondence | incoming, 1854, inclusive
Correspondence | incoming, 1855, inclusive
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Includes a letter from Salman Skinner (9 March 1855) regarding the "Ostend Manifesto," a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused.
Correspondence | incoming, 1856, inclusive
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Includes a letter (21 November 1856) from Aaron Ward (1790-1867), congressman and War of 1812 veteran, concerning a coming meeting at Tammany Hall. With a brief biographical clipping on Ward.
Correspondence | incoming, 1857, inclusive
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Includes a letter (28 April 1857) from John Littleton Dawson (1813-1870), lawyer and U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, regarding an appointment for a U.S. Attorney situation.
Correspondence | incoming, 1858-1859, inclusive
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Includes a letter (18 March 1858) from William B. Maclay (1812-1882), lawyer and U.S. Congressman from New York, regarding a political appointment.
Correspondence | incoming, 1860-1868, inclusive
Correspondence | incoming, 1872-1877, 1880, inclusive
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Includes a letter (1 April 1872) from U.S. Congressman and Fenian Society president William R. Roberts (1830–1897), asking Sutherland for fairness in the taking of his land for the creation of Riverside Park in Manhattan.
Includes a letter (8 May 1872) from Nelson J. Waterbury (1819-1894), a lawyer, judge, New York District Attorney, and defender of "Boss" Tweed, asking Sutherland to support a certain candidate for a clerkship.
Includes a letter (16 April 1874) electing Sutherland to membership in the American Geographical Society.
Correspondence | incoming, undated, inclusive
Correspondence | other writers and recipients, 1849-1872, inclusive
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Includes a letter (25 February 1857), with accompanying envelope, addressed to President-elect James Buchanan, from Congressman James Xavier McLanahan (1809-1861), begging an invitation for Josiah Sutherland to Buchanan's inauguration.
Indentures, 1815, inclusive
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Two indentures for land purchased in 1815 by Josiah Sutherland Sr. at Stanford, Dutchess County, New York.
Bills and receipts, 1832-1862, inclusive
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Items of note include a list of law books purchased by Sutherland (10 May 1832); a bill for his daughter Emma's tuition at Misses Peake and Purcell's school in Hudson, New York (16 February 1849); and an undertaker's bill (14 February 1859), presumably for the funeral of Sutherland's five-year-old son, Douglas, who died 1 February 1859.