Papers : of the Robertson family, 1786-1930 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection includes correspondence, 1848-1889, of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (1807-1891), a Staunton, Va., attorney who also served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Millard Fillmore. Correspondence primarily concerns Whig Party politics on the national and state levels and includes communications from John Jordan Crittenden, Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, and Robert Charles Winthrop, and fifteen letters, 1851-1853, from Millard Fillmore (in part, concerning Dorothea Dix and the U.S. Capitol)