04593cpcaa2200841 a 4500 mm 81046110 DLC 20260227111708.0 cr ||||||||||| 811028|||||||||||| eng mm 81046110 DLC DLC dacs DLC N lcmd Wirt, William, 1772-1834. William Wirt papers, 1802-1858 (bulk 1802-1834). 1,800 items. 9 containers plus 1 oversize. 4 microfilm reels. 2.2 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, writings, reminiscences, clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to the Wirt (Werth) family, a Southern slaveholding family. Topics include social life in Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., Christian piety, and sickness and death in the Wirt family. Also includes material concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, legal work conducted by Wirt as U.S. district attorney, Richmond, Va., 1816, and as U.S. attorney general, 1817-1829, Wirt's 1832 presidential campaign on the Anti-Masonic ticket, the efforts of Wirt and his son-in-law, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, to settle German farmers near Monticello, Fla., Wirt's book titled, The Letters of the British Spy (1803), and reactions to Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry. In addition to family members, correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Nicholas Biddle, William H. Cabell, John C. Calhoun, Dabney Carr, Robert Gamble, Peachy R. Gilmer, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Abner Phelps, Richard Rush, James Wallace, James Webster, and Lewis Williams. Microfilm edition available, no. 18,751. Microfilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1983. U.S. attorney general, lawyer, politician, and biographer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003 Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 Correspondence. Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844 Correspondence. Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 Trials, litigation, etc. Cabell, William H., 1772-1853 Correspondence. Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 Correspondence. Carr, Dabney, 1773-1837 Correspondence. Gamble, Robert, 1754-1810 Correspondence. Gilmer, Peachy R. (Peachy Ridgway), 1779-1836 Correspondence. Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877. Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Correspondence. Madison, James, 1751-1836 Correspondence. Monroe, James, 1758-1831 Correspondence. Phelps, Abner, 1779-1873 Correspondence. Rush, Richard, 1780-1859 Correspondence. Wallace, James Correspondence. Webster, James Correspondence. Williams, Lewis, 1786-1842 Correspondence. Werth family. Werth family Correspondence. Antimasonic Party. Attorneys general United States. Death. Diseases. Elections United States 1832. Germans Florida. Law United States. Law Virginia Richmond. Piety. Public prosecutors Virginia Richmond. Slaveholders. Slavery. Baltimore (Md.) Social life and customs. Germany Emigration and immigration. Maryland Social life and customs. Monticello (Fla.) History. Richmond (Va.) Social life and customs. Southern States Social life and customs. Virginia Social life and customs. Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs. Biographers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003.3 43178 43178