Richard Clough Anderson Papers: Finding Aid mssAND
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Finding aid last updated on July 27, 2022, by Melissa Haley.
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Title: Richard Clough Anderson papers
Creator:
Anderson, Richard Clough, 1788-1826
Identifier/Call Number: mssAND
Physical Description:
15 Linear Feet
(25 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1781-1892
Abstract: Correspondence of the various members of the Anderson family, particularly Richard Clough Anderson Jr. and his wife Elizabeth,
as well as Richard Clough Anderson Sr. and his sons Charles, Robert, and Larz; also included correspondence of the Clark and
Gwathmey families.
Language of Material: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Richard Clough Anderson papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Zeitlin and Ver Brugge in 1976.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Clough Anderson Jr. (1788-1826) was born in Louisville, Kentucky, son of Elizabeth Clark and Richard Clough Anderson
Sr. (1750-1826), and graduated from William and Mary. He married Elizabeth Gwathmey in 1810; the couple had eight children.
Anderson served three terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives between 1812 and 1817, and a fourth term from 1821 to
1823. He was a member of the U.S. Congress from 1817 to 1821. From 1823 to 1826, Anderson was minister plenipotentiary to
La Gran Colombia, where he negotiated the first treaty between the United States and a South American country. He died of
yellow fever in Cartagena enroute to the Panama Congress in 1826.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of the various members of the Anderson family, particularly Richard Clough Anderson, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth,
as well as Richard Clough Anderson, Sr. and his sons Charles, Robert (1805-1871) (of Ft. Sumter fame), and Larz (1803-1878),
a capitalist and a prominent citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio. Also included correspondence of the Clark and Gwathmey families.
Subject matter includes real estate transactions, legislation, and land speculation in Kentucky; Louisville and Kentucky politics;
Ohio politics and government, especially during the Civil War; relations between Colombia and the U.S.; antislavery sentiment;
the Civil War Correspondents include Richards Clough Anderson, Sr., Robert Anderson, Charles Anderson, Larz Anderson, John
Jordan Crittenden and John Sherman.
Correspondents include:
- Richard Clough Anderson Sr. (1750-1826) - 59 pieces
- Richard Clough Anderson Jr. (1788-1826) - 63 pieces
- Robert Anderson - 26 pieces
- Charles Anderson - 85 pieces
- Larz Anderson - 56 pieces
- John Jordan Crittenden -16 pieces
- John Sherman - 10 pieces
Presidential material includes:
- John Quincy Adams letters to Richard Clough Anderson and documents - 1823 February 1 (AND 5); 1823 June 4 (AND 6); 1823 June
4 (AND 7); 1824 March 31 (AND 8); 1825 September 16 (AND 9); 1823 May 29 (AND 10)
- James Monroe letters to Richard Clough Anderson - 1820 March? (AND 1369); 1820 September 26 (AND 1370); 1822 December 18 (AND
1371); 1823 May 22 (AND 1372)
- James Monroe letter to the president of Colombia (contemporary copy), approximately 1823 (AND 1373)
- William Henry Harrison letter to Richard Clough Anderson, 1825 September 12 (AND 1081)
- Rutherford B. Hayes letters to Charles Anderson - 1863 November 6 (AND 1088); 1865 March 25 (AND 1089); 1865 July 12 (AND
1090); 1870 January 20 (AND 1091); 1870 April 14 (AND 1092)
Processing Information
This finding aid was updated in 2022 by Melissa Haley as part of the American Presidential Papers Project with enhanced description
of the presidential material present.
General
Individual call numbers in the collection: mssAND 1-1874
Related Materials
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Anderson Family Papers (mssAD 1-454)
Arrangement
Arranged in chronological order followed by miscellaneous documents and ephemera.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Real property -- Kentucky
Antislavery movements -- United States
Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Kentucky -- Politics and government -- 19th century
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources
United States -- Foreign relations -- Colombia
Colombia -- Foreign relations -- United States
Family papers -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Anderson, Larz, 1803-1878 -- Correspondence
Anderson, Richard C. (Richard Clough), 1750-1826
Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871
Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan), 1787-1863
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Sherman, John, 1772-1828
Anderson family -- Archives
Box 24
1876 October-1893 November
Box 25
Miscellaneous documents and ephemera
Scope and Contents
Includes invitations; newspaper clippings, ephemera, and printed items; miscellaneous legal briefs and notices; autographs
and fragments of envelopes addressed to Richard Clough Anderson; incomplete letters and fragments; miscellaneous bills and
receipts; the July 8, 1814, land settlement of the estate of John Clark, Louisville, Kentucky; and the January 4, 1800, issue
of the
Ulster County Gazette (Kingston, New York).
