Photocopy of letter signed Thomas Hart Benton, St. Louis, to Thomas H. Williams. Requesting that you encourage your editors to republish enclosed two copies of two essays on our South Western boundary, of which I am the author. Your anxiety must be extreme to remove that foreign boundary, which is now parallel to your coast and approaches so near to it. Legislative memorials, or resolutions, condemning the Treaty of 1819 and recommending the reacquisition of the country then thrown away, will have a good effect. I flatter myself the West may count upon your good exertions. (acc. no. 70-0017), [1829] Aug 11

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains family and business papers, estate papers, passports, and deeds of the families of Lemon Parker, William Russell, and James Russell (St. Louis, Washington County, and Franklin County, Mo.). Included are a travel journal of Lemon Parker, Sr.; land records from Howard County, Mo.; records relating to the firm of Ward & Parker and to the Galena Mining Company; and reminiscences of Anne Clendennin Russell (wife of Silas Bent Russell, son of Russella Russell Parker’s brother Charles Silas Russell) about St. Louis life from 1861-1947, written ca. 1947.