Series I: Correspondence, 1715-1868, undated, inclusive
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Scope and Content
Within this series, are three subseries. For the most part, the correspondence is arranged by the person who received it and then chronologically. At some point, a portion of the correspondence was mounted. There does not appear to be a particular reason why some of these letters were mounted and some were not.
Subseries I.A: Matthias B. Tallmadge Correspondence, 1787-1819, undated, inclusive
Scope and Content
Subseries A consists of Matthias B. Tallmadge's correspondence. Overwhelmingly this subseries consists of letters Tallmadge received. There is one small folder of letters sent by him to individuals outside of his family and members of his extended family. Many of these letters are from his wife, Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge. Of note, there are letters from George Clinton, Theodorus Bailey, Ephraim Snow, David Thomas, and Stephen Gano. Also of interest are several threats anonymously sent to Tallmadge while he sat on the bench. Two are from 1809, one of which contains an explicit threat against Tallmadge's children.
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1787-1803, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1804-1806, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1807-1808, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1809-1812, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1813-1814, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1815-1816, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1817-1819, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Received, undated
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Letters Sent, 1806-1817, undated, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, 1802-1807, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, 1808-1810, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, 1811-1819, inclusive
Matthias B. Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, undated
Subseries I.B: Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge Correspondence, 1800-1824, undated, inclusive
Scope and Content
Subseries B contains correspondence to Tallmadge's wife, Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge. Many of the letters are from Tallmadge himself as well as their sons George Clinton Tallmadge and Charles William Tallmadge. There are also letters from Charlotte H. Atlee White Rowe, who was a missionary in India in the early nineteenth century.
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1800-1809, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1810-1812, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1813-1814, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1815, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1816-1817, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1818-1819, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1820-1822, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Receieved, 1823, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1824, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, undated
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, undated
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, 1803-1809, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, 1810-1813, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, 1814-1824, inclusive
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, undated
Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, undated
Subseries I.C: Tallmadge Children Correspondence, 1805-1868, undated, inclusive
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Scope and Content
Subseries C consists of correspondence received by the Tallmadge children. The bulk of this correspondence is to eldest son, George Clinton Tallmadge.
George Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1805-1815, inclusive
George Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1817-1819, inclusive
George Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1820-1823, inclusive
George Clinton Tallmadge -- Letters Received, undated
Charles William Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1812-1824, undated, inclusive
Theodore Bailey Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1815-1818, undated, inclusive
Elizabeth Matthias Tallmadge -- Letters Received, 1828-1868, undated, inclusive
George Clinton Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, 1808-1821, inclusive
Elizabeth Matthias Tallmadge -- Mounted Letters Received, 1835-1836, inclusive
Subseries I.D: Other Family and Friend Correspondence, 1715-1849, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Subseries D consists of correspondence received and sent by various members of the extended family, both on the Tallmadge and Clinton sides, and friends. There is a folder of correspondence received by George Clinton and his wife, Elizabeth Clinton Tallmadge's mother, Cornelia Tappen Clinton. There are letters sent from Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge and a small folder of letters of introduction, both for Tallmadge and to him.