Collamer descriptions
Carton One
Folder 15
Letter to Mary Collamer, January 14 1844
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include activities of a Congressman; constituent business at the
General Post Office, the Treasury, the War or Navy Department, and the Patent Office;
Congressional prayer meeting; social life.
Letter to Mary Collamer, February 4, 1844
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include abolitionism; Representative Joshua Giddings (OH);
Representative John Quincy Adams (MA); Democrats and Whigs; speech making in
Congress.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 17, 1844
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include party hosted by Postmaster General Charles Wickliffe;
George Perkins Marsh; Democrats and Whigs; dueling.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 28, 1844
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include steam ship of war Princeton accidental explosion, which
killed Secretary of State Abel Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, Chief of
the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs Captain Beverly Kennon, Virgil
Maxey of Maryland, Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, and five seamen.
Letter to Harriet Johnson, April 7, 1844
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include social life of wives of congressmen; steam ship
Princeton accident; Representative John Quincy Adams (MA); Representative Solomon
Foot (VT); social life
Folder 16
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, January 26, 1845
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include annexation of Texas debate and vote; speeches by
Collamer and Representative George Perkins Marsh (VT) on Texas.
Letter to Mary Collamer, February 2, 1845
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include speech by Collamer on Texas; case of Collamer’s
before the Supreme Court; health of Representative Willis Green (KY); annexation of
Texas; tariff.
Letter to Mary Collamer, February 10, 1845
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include Whig and Democrat members of Congress; President
James Polk; annexation of Texas.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, November 27, 1845
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include securing a seat in the House chamber; traveling to
Washington.
Letter to Mary Collamer, December 14, 1845
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include visit to the White House with Representative Solomon
Foot (VT); Sarah Polk, wife of the President; Congressional prayer meetings.
Folder 17
Letter to Mary Collamer, January 8, 1846
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include speeches about Oregon; Representative Solomon Foot
(VT); constituent business, particularly in regard to pensions.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, January 19, 1846
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include health of Representative Solomon Foot (VT); death of
Representative William Taylor (VA); detailed description of a dinner hosted by President
James Polk; Representative Cornelius Darragh (PA); Representative George Perkins
Marsh (VT); Representative John Chipman (MI); social life and etiquette.
Folder 18
Letter to Mary Collamer, January 24, 1847
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include Mexican-American War; President James Polk;
General Zachary Taylor; General Winfield Scott.
Letter to Mary Collamer, February 14, 1847
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include city crowded with people seeking military
appointments; Senator John Calhoun (SC) and the Calhoun branch of the Democratic
party; President James Polk.
Folder 19
Letter to William Collamer, January 24, 1848
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to son. Topics include General Zachary Taylor.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 7, 1848
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include speech in House by Collamer; Hiram Powers statue of the
Greek Slave.
Letter to Harriet Johnson, June 20, 1848
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include Committee on Public Lands; visit of Frederick
Billings.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, July 8, 1848
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include question of slavery being admitted into newly acquired
territories; presidential speeches in the House.
Folder 20
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 3, 1848
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include traveling to Washington, DC; new session of Congress;
lottery for seats in the House.
Folder 21
Letter to William Collamer, January 11, 1849
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to son. Topics include constituent business regarding William Billings and the
East Barnard, Vermont post office.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, January 30, 1849
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include inauguration of President Zachary Taylor; possible
Cabinet appointments.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 14, 1849
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include inauguration of President Zachary Taylor; traveling to
Vermont by rail.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, March 5, 1849
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include inauguration of President Zachary Taylor; appointment of
Collamer as Postmaster General.
Folder 31
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, June 26, 1856
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include Kansas.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 3, 1856
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include John Gregory Smith; receptions of cabinet Secretaries and
President Franklin Pierce; Representative Nathaniel Banks (MA).
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 24, 1856
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include invitation to dinner with President Franklin Pierce; Kansas
and the Senate Committee on Territories; Representative James Meacham (VT) and
alcohol; Representative Justin Morrill (VT).
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, April 13, 1856
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include speech by Collamer in the Senate on Kansas; practice of
visiting home by members of Congress while in session.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 14, 1856
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include speech by Collamer in the Senate.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 25, 1856
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include Agriculture Patent Office Reports to be mailed.
Folder 32
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 20, 1857
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include opposition of Senator Stephen Douglas (IL) to the position
of President James Buchanan on Kansas; new hall for House of Representatives.
Folder 34
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, May 9, 1858
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include death of Senator Josiah Evans (SC); Representative Justin
Morrill; Kansas.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, May 15, 1858
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include constituent business.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 12, 1858
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include constituent business; invitation to dinner from President
James Buchanan; new Senate chambers; Pension Office.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 26, 1858
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include new Senate chambers; mailing of government documents
and speeches by Collamer; social life.
Folder 35
Letter to Mary Collamer, January 2, 1859
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to daughter. Topics include mailing of government documents and speeches by
Collamer; new Senate chambers; social calls.
Letter to William Collamer, January 19, 1859
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to son. Topics include Pension Bill; Tariff; Pacific Rail Road; African Slave
Trade; Amistad; Vermont State House; mailing of government documents by Collamer;
Joint Resolution introduced by Senator Solomon Foot (VT) on the bounty land law as to
Plattsburgh Volunteers; Bankruptcy Bill; price of wool; Court of Claims decisions.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, February 13, 1859
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include acquisition of Cuba; Secretary of the Interior Jacob
Thompson.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 11, 1859
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include President James Buchanan; Senator James Dixon (CT);
John Brown; speeches in the House of Representatives.
Letter to Mary N. Collamer, December 19, 1859
Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865
Letter to wife. Topics include John Brown and proposed investigation of his supporters.