Papers.

Title:

Papers.

Creator:

Mason, Jeremiah, 1768-1848.

Accession / Call Number:

M 1962-006

Object ID:

M 1962-006

Date:

1790-1913

Physical Description:

2 boxes, 523 items.

Scope and Content:

See Register. In part, transcripts (typewritten) of letters made by John Chipman Gray for his article on Mason in W.D. Lewis, Great American Lawyers, Vol. 3 (1907).Lawyer of Portsmouth, N.H., attorney general of New Hampshire, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, and president of the Portsmouth Branch of the Bank of the United States. Political, family, and personal correspondence, autobiography covering Mason's life to 1797, sketch of Judge Jeremiah Smith (1759-1842), "Discourse on the death of Jeremiah Mason" by the Rev. Charles Burroughs of Portsmouth, letters to Mrs. Mason after her husband's death, reminiscences (1880-1903) by Arthur Livermore, Jr., U.S. Consul, Londonderry, Ire., and anecdotes written and collected by Mason's daughter, Marianne Crafts Elison. The correspondence relates to political affairs , the Dartmouth College case (1819), and the Portsmouth Branch of the Bank of the United States. Includes letters from Mrs. Mason to her sister, Mrs. Caleb Ellis, of Amherst, N.H., describing life in Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Mason's brother-in-law, the Rev. Jesse Appleton, president of Bowdoin College, Samuel Bell, Nicholas Biddle, Sen. David Daggett of Connecticut, Sen. Robert H. Goldsborough of Maryland, William Gordon, John F. Parrott, William Plumer, Jr., Thomas W. Thompson, and Sen. John Williams of Tennesee.Described in "Jeremiah Mason papers" in Historical New Hampshire, v. 21, no. 3 (Autumn 1966). Mason's autobiography and some correspondence were published in memoir and correspondence of Jeremiah Mason, edited by George S. Hillard (1873).In part, gift of John Chipman Gray, a descendant of Mason, 1966.

Subjects:

Banks and banking United States. , Lawyers. , Dartmouth College case.

Locations:

United States History 1783-1865.

People:

Mason, Jeremiah, 1768-1848

Level Description:

Item