Box 14

Scope and Contents Topics include: PoliticsGovernmentFamily and FriendsBusiness (i.e. requests for jobs or appointments, complaints that "rebels" are getting jobs, claims for war damages, concerns about political "disabilities,” and information about railroads and the West)(folder 1 -- politics in Dakota Territory; reparations for damage to a church in Mannington, WV; compensation for soldiers of Revolution and War...

Scope and Contents Topics include: PoliticsGovernmentFamily and FriendsBusiness (folder 22 -- letter charging US District Attorney, General Goff, with fraud [item 5776] and a letter lobbying to reject bill in Congress giving franking privileges to senators on the grounds it will force newspapers out of business [item 5784]; folder 23 -- letter from mayor of Lewisburg, WV, requesting job to get him away from the "rebels" in...

Scope and Contents This series includes letters written to Waitman T. Willey (WTW). The letters can be divided into four major categories: politics; governmental service and the Civil War; family and church affairs; and law and business activities. Willey wrote the name of the correspondent and the date on each letter. The letters have been previously divided into "copied" (Series 1a.) and "not copied" (Series 1b.) categories; the former refers to a select number of the...