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Aaron Hobart Collection [Decimalized .01-.04.445]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06313 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1804-1889 [bulk 1810-1827] Pagination: 587 items Order a Copy

Includes letters and documents that span Hobart's entire career, from the time that he was a law student, a lawyer, a representative, and, finally, a judge. The documents shed light on both Hobart's personal and political lives. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence to and from Hobart's family, his friends, and his legal and political colleagues such as fellow Brown graduate and Massachusetts representative Zabdiel Sampson and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. The correspondence touches on a range of topics, including social and health matters, business and financial transactions, New England life, the status of laws and legal affairs, political opinions and news, and philosophical matters about society at large.

Hobart, Aaron, 1787-1858

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