Letter to Oscar Wadsworth, 14 December 1860

Item — Box: SC1850-1899.007, Folder: 4237.01

Letter from Hestor L. Stevens to Oscar Wadsworth, December 14, 1860

Content Description

From the Collection: The letters that constitute this collection detail former Michigan representative Hestor L. Stevens’s law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War. Stevens, a Democrat, was a partisan of Stephen Douglas, and Stevens wrote critically of his own party after the loss. There is a poignant letter describing the death of his wife, Charlotte White Sedgewick Stevens (1811-1860). Stevens’s letters describe life in Washington during the early days of both the Lincoln administration and the Civil War.

Dates

14 December 1860

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