03460cpcaa2200601 4500 mm 75020636 DLC 20260227111616.0 cr ||||||||||| 750331|||||||||||| eng mm 75020636 ms 74001066 DLC DLC dacs DLC N lcmd Fisher, George P. (George Purnell), 1817-1899. George P. Fisher papers, 1772-1905. 200 items. 2 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.0 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, speeches, essays, legal records, commissions, biographical sketches, and other papers relating to Fisher's legal career and other subjects. Letters to Fisher from John M. Clayton concern Delaware politics, Oregon boundary question, Mexican War, and opposition to Clayton as U.S. secretary of state. Other correspondence pertains to the legal practice of Nicholas Ridgely of Delaware. Includes an essay by Fisher on the trial of John H. Surratt for plotting to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Correspondents include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden, Ann Ridgely Du Pont, Hannibal Hamlin, Edward Joy Morris, Frederick William Seward, Daniel Webster, and Thurlow Weed. Public official and judge of the supreme court of the District Columbia. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012072 Index of the general correspondence and special correspondence of others available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms012072.appx.pdf Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 Correspondence. Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Correspondence. Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856. Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856 Correspondence. Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan), 1787-1863 Correspondence. Du Pont, Ann Ridgely, 1815-1898 Correspondence. Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891 Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Assassination. Morris, Edward Joy, 1815-1881 Correspondence. Ridgely, Nicholas, 1762-1830. Seward, Frederick William, 1830-1915 Correspondence. Surratt, John H. (John Harrison), 1844-1916 Trials, litigation, etc. Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Correspondence. Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882 Correspondence. District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936) Courts Washington (D.C.) Mexican War, 1846-1848. Practice of law Delaware. Practice of law Washington (D.C.) Trials (Conspiracy) Delaware Politics and government. Oregon Boundaries. Jurists. itoamc Public officials. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012072 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012072.3 39345 39345