Item Nos. 823-843, 1867–1868

Topics include:

Politics: Items 823-827, 829-832, 834-835, 837-843 (patent office activities; Naval Academy graduates as ensigns promoted; a suit for property in Harpers Ferry worth millions of dollars; exclusion of “Negroes” from governments in the South; whiskey tax; war damage compensation request; petition for the removal of "disabilities;" move of state capitol to Charleston [item 832]; request for money for the railroads; impeachment of President Johnson [items 839, 841-843]; possibility of getting money for state college from sale of Harpers Ferry property [item 840])



Family and Friends: Item 836 (streetcars should not run on Sunday in D.C.)



Law/Business: Items 828, 833 (WTW's land in Illinois, sale of Morgantown college property)