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Henry Clay

1777–1852 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

The index holds 2 works for Henry Clay so far. Search further, by the Library of Congress heading: WorldCat · OCPL. If you know a source, tell us.

Indexed works

Works about or by Henry Clay. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it. Background reading appears below.

Curtis family papers,

Curtis family · 1828

Letters, 1828 to 1858, among the Curtis family of Brooklyn and their friends, 67 items. Many are from Samuel Curtis, a printer in Mobile, Alabama, to his wife Sarah in Brooklyn, on business, society, politics and religion there. Chapel Hill and the Caldwell Institute also come up, as do Henry Clay, Fanny Kemble, Bogotá and enslaved people in Alabama. At Duke's Rubenstein Library.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.

Papers,

Mangum, A. W. · 1849

School compositions by A. W. Mangum, Methodist minister and later professor of mental and moral philosophy at the University of North Carolina, written at South Lowell Academy in Durham County and at Randolph-Macon College in Boydton, Virginia, from 1849 on. The 98 items take up moral and political questions, women's education among them, and also concern Henry Clay and the Franklin Literary Society at Randolph-Macon.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.

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