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Virgil Maxcy (1785-1844) was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, graduated from Brown University in 1804, and became an attorney and politician in Maryland. The papers consist of a journal, correspondence, and an undated July Fourth oration. The journal was kept in 1802 while Maxcy was acting as a tutor for the Roberts family near Columbia, South Carolina, and contains discussions of social life, adolescent concerns, and accounts of [Baptist] Association meetings and other religious manifestations in South Carolina and Kentucky. Correspondence dates from 1815 and 1843 with the bulk dating between 1821 and 1843. Letters relate chiefly to professional matters, particularly pertaining to his duties as Solicitor of the Treasury, though a letter from his brother, Jonathan Maxcy, is present. less

Official letters and documents signed Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1825), governor of New York (1807–1817) and vice president of the United States (1817–1825), dating mostly from the period of his governorship. These consist of civil and state militia appointment certificates, 1809-1816; letters and documents concerning administrative and criminal matters, 1810-1815; a transcription of his speech to the state legislature upon re-election as governor, 1811; an undated authorization to purchase muskets as per an 1815 act; and Tompkins’ responses, 1818, to questions regarding the expenses of the Commissary of Military Stores, 1813-1817. An 1815 letter from Nathan Willliams of Utica to Tompkins concerning his rank in the state militia, and a few financial items, consisting of a voucher, check, and a letter written on his behalf to the Bank of the United States, 1820, 1824 and undated, are also present. less