Item Nos. 1003-1022, 1870

Topics include:

Politics: Items 1004-1020 ("disabilities" and pardons [items 1004, 1008, 1017, 1005-1007], the latter letters are from David Hunter Strother about a Winchester man; franking privileges for Congress; money needed for cemetery in Harpers Ferry; politics in Texas; Reconstruction; a man in New York City requests information about land in West Virginia where a "colony of men" could be established [item 1018]; Australia and the US consul)



Family and Friends: Item 1021 (son, John, about home and family)



Law/Business: Item 1022 (the railroads need money from the government)