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Warren R. Austin letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, September 24, 1940
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    • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
    • Description: Letter to daughter and son-in-law. Topics include reports of a snow storm in Vermont; Apportionment Bill passed in the Senate; Tariff being considered in the House of Representatives; distribution of the proceeds of the public lands; description of work in the Senate; Locofocos (Democrats) and Whigs in Congress; President Tyler and Congress.
    • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


    William Wirt Henry to Mary Jane Henry
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      • Creator: Henry, William Wirt, 1831-1915.
      • Date Created: 1863-09-01
      • Description: Misses his children, worries that his son Ferdie‚Äôs fits (Ferdinand Sherman Henry, born 1862) might have affected his intellect. Glad Mary Jane is horseback riding, reflects on losing precious time with family, wants his father-in-law (Lyman Beebe) to purchase sheep for him, since he feels they are a good speculation.
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, William Wirt Henry Correspondence


      Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, July 30, 1940
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        • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
        • Description: Letter to son. Topics include slowness of mail; health of members of Congress; date of adjournment.
        • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


        Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, May 23, 1939
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          • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
          • Description: Topics include radio address by Austin from the World's Fair, "Revitalizing the Declaration of Independence in 1940"; foreign policy.
          • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


          Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 10, 1939
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            • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
            • Description: Topics include debate over Hatch Bill to provide against pernicious political activities; Senator Neely (WV) proposal.
            • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


            Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, Whiting Company, Correspondence, Hearings, 1961
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              • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
              • Date Created: 1961
              • Description: Topics include background of the Northeast Dairy Bloc; milk quotas; feed supplies; milk prices; address by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman at a White House Regional Conference in Madison, WI; H.R. 50, National Milk Sanitation Act; request of six Vermont cooperatives for a partial suspension of the Class II price formula; failure of the Whiting Milk Company.
              • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress


              Henry A. Smith to Family
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                • Creator: Smith, Henry A., d. 1864.
                • Date Created: 1862-11-28
                • Description: Topics include the arrival of the package from home that had includes apples and chicken but those were eaten by Jarvis Wentworth, pictures of relatives received, admiration of his new boots, Henry Smith's friend Fenney hoping to become his brother-in-law, and the death of a boy names Henry Holt of Hartland, gives advice on how to best care for a horse.
                • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Henry A. Smith Correspondence


                Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, March 8, 1939
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                  • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
                  • Description: Topics include upcoming Republican National Convention; Governor Aiken.
                  • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


                  Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, August 21, 1940
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                    • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
                    • Description: Letter to son. Topics include upcoming presidential election and potential candidates John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and William Crawford; divide in electoral politics on question of slavery particularly in Pennsylvania and New York; question of a Congressional caucus on the election debated; health of members of Congress; Greek War of Independence.
                    • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress


                    Letter to Mrs. C.G. (Ann) Austin, February 28, 1939
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                      • Creator: Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962.
                      • Description: Topics include Wisconsin primary, Thomas Dewey, and Senator Vandenberg (MI).
                      • Parent Collections: Letters Home From Congress