Box 1: Correspondence, 1834-1856
Correspondence, 1834-1840
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Includes a letter from John Church Hamilton (1792-1882), son of Alexander Hamilton, 10 December 1838, requesting Rufus King's notes on the debates of the Constitutional Convention.
Correspondence, 1840-1842
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Contains copies of New York State Assembly Document no. 337 of 27 April 1840, "Of the select committee on the petition of the Marine Pavilion and Life-boat Association at Rockaway in the county of Queens"; and New York State Assembly Document no. 422 of 27 April 1840, "An act to incorporate the Marine Pavilion and Life-Boat Association at Rockaway."
Correspondence, 1843-1844
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Contains a printed circular letter (2 copies) from John A. King, dated July 1844, to his tenants at Blenheim, Schoharie County, New York, who refused to pay their rent.
Correspondence, 1845-1846
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Contains a printed circular letter from Henry D. Cruger, 3 January 1846, to Harriet D. Cruger, his wayward wife.
Correspondence, 1847-1849
Correspondence, 1850-1851
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Contains assessment bills for the paving of West 29th Street between Ninth and Eleventh Avenues, Manhattan, dated September and October 1850.
Correspondence, 1852-1853
Correspondence, 1855
Correspondence, 1856
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Includes letters from H. L. Jones, at Kansas City, describing conditions there during "Bleeding Kansas," the border conflict following the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.