Papers, 1889-1918 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Consists largely of typed and handwritten drafts by Logan Esarey relating to an incomplete biography of Joseph Ewing McDonald, 1819-1891, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and active member of the Democratic Party in Indiana. The drafts appear to have been built around transcriptions of speeches taken from printed sources and from clippings in McDonald's own scrapbooks, with limited background context added. Four letters to and one from Esarey document his attempt to locate all of McDonald's speeches and papers in 1917-1918. Two letters from McDonald to William Allen Woods and one from McDonald to "Mr. Editor," all written in 1889, concern a case of alleged voter fraud and disagreement between McDonald and Woods over the appropriate judicial charge to the jury