Butler, Charles 1802-1897 creator mixed material monographic eng 2,172 5 4 3 Correspondence; travel diaries (1833) of a trip to Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana; legal, financial, and business papers; and maps, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Butler's involvement in New York politics and his interest in such matters as anti-Masonry, public debts in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, loans to farmers by the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, legal cases (particularly the William Morgan kidnapping), and improvements in transportation, especially in roads, canals, and railroads. Family correspondents include his wife, Eliza A. Ogden Butler, his brother, Benjamin F. Butler, and his brother-in-law, William B. Ogden. Other correspondents include George Bancroft, William Bard, John Bigelow, Edward C. Bissell, Arthur Bronson, Isaac Bronson, Edwin Croswell, George William Curtis, Elon Farnsworth, John Fiske, Mark Hopkins, Lucius Lyon, William L. Marcy, William Morgan, William B. Ogden, Thomas W. Olcott, Martin Van Buren, and Bowen Whiting. Open to research. Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 16,610. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service. Entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038 Bancroft, George 1800-1891 Correspondence Bard, William 1778-1853 Correspondence Bigelow, John 1817-1911 Correspondence Bissell, Edward C Correspondence Bronson, Arthur Correspondence Bronson, Isaac 1760-1838 Correspondence Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) 1795-1858 Correspondence Butler, Eliza A. Ogden Correspondence Croswell, Edwin 1797-1871 Correspondence Curtis, George William 1824-1892 Correspondence Farnsworth, Elon 1799-1877 Correspondence Fiske, John 1842-1901 Correspondence Hopkins, Mark 1813-1878 Correspondence Lyon, Lucius 1800-1851 Correspondence Marcy, William L. (William Learned) 1786-1857 Correspondence Morgan, William 1774-approximately 1826 Ogden, William B. (William Butler) 1805-1877 Correspondence Olcott, Thomas W. (Thomas Worth) 1795-1880 Correspondence Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 Correspondence Whiting, Bowen Correspondence Antimasonic Party. New York Life Insurance and Trust Company. Agricultural credit Canals Debts, Public Illinois Debts, Public Indiana Debts, Public Michigan Freemasonry Maps Railroads Transportation Illinois Description and travel Indiana Description and travel Michigan Description and travel New York (State) Politics and government 1775-1865 Businessmen Lawyers Philanthropists mm 75014522 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038.3 Open to research. DLC 760517 20260227111616.0 mm 75014522