Scope and arrangement
Miscellaneous items by or relating to Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and poet. Includes a German manuscript translation of the Star Spangled Banner made in 1870 by Isidor Kann; an 1808 receipt signed by Key; a brief 1835 letter relating to a debt; and an agreement of counsel in the case of Pratt and others against the Bank of Columbia, which related to the land speculation activities of James Greenleaf, Robert Morris, John Nicholson, and others.