Clay, Henry 1777-1852 creator mixed material monographic eng 18,850 75 30 Personal, official, and family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852), U.S. secretary of state and representative and senator from Kentucky; and his son, James B. Clay (1817-1864), diplomat, U.S. representative from Kentucky, and Confederate sympathizer; and other members of Henry Clay's family. Part I consists of general correspondence mainly relating to politics, dispatches and instructions sent by Henry Clay as secretary of state to chargés d'affaires and ministers plenipotentiary, and other papers. Topics include the Burr conspiracy; Clay's duels with Humphrey Marshall and John Randolph; the War of 1812, peace negotiations, and the Treaty of Ghent (1814); tariff, public lands, internal improvements, and other postwar domestic issues; relations with South America; presidential politics, particularly the elections of 1824, 1832, 1844, and 1848 in all of which Clay was a Whig candidate or nominee; Clay's opposition to the politics of Andrew Jackson; the rechartering of the Bank of the United States; the nullification crisis; slavery in the District of Columbia; the annexation of Texas; and the influence of New York politics and the Liberty Party on the election of 1844. Prominent correspondents in Part I include James Brown, Francis Taliaferro Brook, and Josiah Stoddard Johnston. Other correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Nicholas Biddle, Francis Preston Blair, Horace Greeley, William Henry Harrison, Christopher Hughes, Amos Kendall, the marquis de Lafayette, John L. Lawrence, John Marshall, James Monroe, Peter B. Porter, William Beatty Rochester, Richard Rush, John Sargeant, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, and Robert Wickliffe. Part II consists of correspondence, notes, memoranda, journals, speeches, and other papers of Henry Clay's mother Elizabeth Hudson Clay Watkins, brothers Porter and John Clay, father-in-law Thomas Hart, wife Lucretia Hart Clay, children Theodore Wythe Clay, Anne Brown Clay Erwin, Henry Clay, Jr., and James B. Clay, and grandchildren. Also included are client files and other legal papers from the law offices of Henry Clay, Thomas Hart, and James B. Clay in Lexington, Ky. Part II also contains correspondence, speeches, and writings of James B. Clay relating to his diplomatic service in Portugal, support of James Buchanan in the election of 1856, his congressional career as a Whig, border wars in Kansas, the unsuccessful peace convention of 1861, and blockade-running, Braxton Bragg's campaign in Kentucky, and other Civil War topics. Papers of his sons include correspondence of James Brown Clay, Jr., aide-de-camp to Gen. John C. Breckinridge, relating to Civil War military life and campaigns; journal (1878) of Thomas Jacob Clay describing U.S. Cavalry forays against Mexicans and Indians while stationed at Fort Clark, Tex.; and correspondence and writings (1880-1884) of Henry ("Harry") Clay relating to his participation in the Arctic expeditions of A. W. Greely and Henry W. Howgate. Also includes a biography of Henry Clay and other writings by James B. Clay's wife, Susan Maria Jacob Clay, and religious and fictional writings by Lucretia Hart Clay. Also included in Part II are the papers of James Morrison (1755-1823) include correspondence and records relating to his work as a contractor for the army during the War of 1812 and president of the Lexington branch of the Bank of the United States and to the settlement of his estate for which Henry Clay was executor. Morrison's papers also include those of George Nicholas (1754?-1790) for whom Morrison was executor. Financial records (1829-1868) of Transylvania University, a beneficiary of Morrison's estate, are also included. Microfilm edition of the papers of Henry Clay in this and other collections in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division cataloged in record 97-185283. The microfilm was produced in 1957 by the National Archives under the auspices of the National Historical Publications Commission, nos. 13,707-22N (13,789-22P), 13,789.1-1N-1P and 17,343-1N-1P. Open to research. Photographs and other pictorial material transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010 Card index to the collection available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Reel guide to the microfilm edition available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. Adams, John Quincy 1767-1848 Correspondence Biddle, Nicholas 1786-1844 Correspondence Blair, Francis Preston 1791-1876 Correspondence Bragg, Braxton 1817-1876 Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell) 1821-1875 Brooke, Francis Taliaferro 1763-1851 Correspondence Brown, James 1766-1835 Correspondence Buchanan, James 1791-1868 Clay, Henry 1811-1847 Correspondence Clay, Henry 1849-1884 Correspondence Clay, James Brown 1848-1908 Correspondence Clay, John 1775-1829 Correspondence Clay, Lucretia Hart 1781-1864 Correspondence Clay, Porter 1779-1849 Correspondence Clay, Susan Maria Jacob Clay, Theodore Wythe 1802-1870 Correspondence Clay, Thomas Jacob 1853-1939 Correspondence Clay family Colton, Calvin 1789-1857 Erwin, Anne Brown Clay 1807-1835 Correspondence Greeley, Horace 1811-1872 Correspondence Greely. A. W. (Adolphus Washington) 1844-1935 Harrison, William Henry 1773-1841 Correspondence Hart. Thomas d. 1808 Correspondence Howgate, Henry W Hughes, Christopher 1786-1849 Correspondence Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845 Johnston, Josiah Stoddard 1784-1833 Correspondence Kendall, Amos 1789-1869 Correspondence marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier 1757-1834 Correspondence Marshall, Humphrey 1760-1841 Marshall, John 1755-1835 Correspondence Monroe, James 1758-1831 Correspondence Nicholas, George 1754?-1799 Porter, Peter B. (Peter Buell) 1773-1844 Correspondence Randolph, John 1773-1833 Rochester, William Beatty 1789-1838 Correspondence Rush, Richard 1780-1859 Correspondence Sergeant, John 1779-1852 Correspondence Taylor, Zachary 1784-1850 Correspondence Watkins, Elizabeth Hudson Clay 1750-1829 Correspondence Webster, Daniel 1782-1852 Correspondence Wickliffe, Robert 1775-1859 Correspondence Bank of the United States (1816-1836) Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848) Transylvania University. Great Britain. 1814 Dec. 24. United States. 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History Kentucky History Civil War, 1861-1865 Kentucky Politics and government 1792-1865 Latin America Foreign relations United States New York (State) Politics and government 1775-1865 Texas Annexation to the United States United States Foreign relations Latin America United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States History War of 1812 United States Politics and government 19th century Representatives, U.S. Congress Senators, U.S. Congress Statesmen Clay, James B. (James Brown), 1817-1864 Morrison, James, 1755-1823 mm 78016105 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010.3 Open to research. DLC 780608 20260227111622.0 mm 78016105