TY  - GEN
AU  - Wirt,William
TI  - William Wirt papers,
KW  - Adams, John Quincy,
KW  - Biddle, Nicholas,
KW  - Burr, Aaron,
KW  - Cabell, William H.,
KW  - Calhoun, John C.
KW  - Carr, Dabney,
KW  - Gamble, Robert,
KW  - Gilmer, Peachy R.
KW  - Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes,
KW  - Henry, Patrick,
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas,
KW  - Madison, James,
KW  - Monroe, James,
KW  - Phelps, Abner,
KW  - Rush, Richard,
KW  - Wallace, James
KW  - Webster, James
KW  - Williams, Lewis,
KW  - Werth family.
KW  - Werth family
KW  - Antimasonic Party
KW  - Attorneys general
KW  - United States
KW  - Death
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Elections
KW  - 1832
KW  - Germans
KW  - Florida
KW  - Law
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Richmond
KW  - Piety
KW  - Public prosecutors
KW  - Slaveholders
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Baltimore (Md.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Germany
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Monticello (Fla.)
KW  - History
KW  - Richmond (Va.)
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Biographers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition available; no. 18,751; Microfilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1983
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003.3
ER  -