Key-Cutts-Turner family papers, 1808-1975 (bulk 1808-1855).

Open to research.

Chiefly family correspondence of Ann Arnold Key Turner (also known as Anna) with various relatives, including her father, Francis Scott Key, written from Woodley plantation, Warrenton, N.C., together with a commonplace book (1847-1854) of her daughter, Ellen Key Turner Dessu; letters of Richard Cutts written from Washington, D.C., to his father and brother, Thomas Cutts and Thomas Cutts, Jr., relating to the commercial and maritime embargo of the Jefferson and Madison administrations, the declaration of war against the British in 1812, and later peace negotiations; and Key and Turner genealogies and Cutts family records.

Members of the Key, Cutts, and Turner families include Francis Scott Key, lawyer of Washington, D.C., best known as the author of the national anthem; Richard Cutts, U.S. representative from Massachusetts and comptroller of the U.S. Treasury; Daniel Turner, U.S. representative from North Carolina and superintending engineer, Mare Island Navy Yard, Calif.; and Ann Arnold Key Turner, daughter of Francis Scott Key and wife of Daniel Turner.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007082