Item 61: Letter from Lewis E[liphalet] Parsons to Judge [William] Jessup, 1835 December 3
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 61
Dates
- Created: 1835 December 3
Creator
- Parsons, Lewis Eliphalet, 1817-1895 (Person)
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Access:
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Letter/Correspondence
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
8 in. x 5 in. *Need envelope measurements
Description:
This is a letter from Lewis Eliphalet Parsons to the Honorable Judge William Jessup on December 3, 1835. This letter is in regards to an event in which Judge Jessup will need to deliver a lecture/speech at.
The recipient of this letter, William Jessup, was born in Long Island in 1797. Jessup was a judge and an abolitionist; Pennsylvania named Jessup an emissary to high-level conferences. The letter is stored in a folder from Charles Hamilton’s Autographs, a business run by notorious handwriting expert Charles Hamilton.
Lewis Eliphalet Parsons was born in Broome county, New York on April 28, 1817. He was well educated, going on to receive a law education at the Frederick Tallmadge offices. He moved to Alabama in 1840, practicing law with Alexander White before pursuing a political career. He served as a presidential elector in 1856 and 1860, before he was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1859, and again later in 1865. Following the Confederate’s defeat and surrender to the Union army in the American Civil War in 1865, president Andrew Jackson appointed Parsons as the 19th governor of Alabama, where he reinstated the laws of 1861 except those that regarded slavery. However, after his attempts to purchase a portion of Florida’s panhandle, rumors of his holding unclaimed Confederate gold stashes sparked anamosity and distrust in Parsons. His term ended in 1865, and though he was elected to the senate, the Republican party refused his seat. He spent the remainder of his career continuing his work as in the Alabama District Attorney’s office.
Jonathan Joseph Slocum was born on January 27, 1815 in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. He recieved his education from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and later Kenyon College. She read and studied law under Ebeanezar W. Sturdevant following his education and was admitted to the Bar of Luzerne County in 1837 on August 12. He became the clerk of the Wilkes Barre town council in 1838.
Edward Emelius Le Clerc was born in Philadelphia on August 19, 1819. He attended Dickinson college and after studying under Slocum, Le Clerc was admitted to the Bar of Luzerne County in 1840 on November 3. Le Clerc also had a substantial military record, serving as a Lieutenant of the “Columbia Guards” in the Mexican War. During his time in the county, Le Clerc wrote many beautiful, historical poems. The Historical Record has one of these poems digitized.
Location:
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Transcription:
Envelope:
Charles Hamilton Autographs 515 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK 22. N.Y. Fine Autographs of Interest and Importance [archivist note: Jan’y. ‘57]
Front Page:
Hon. Judge Jessup Sir The Wilkes Barre Library Association having for its object mental improvement and desirous of awakening the literary taste of this community and in imitation of the Athaiman Institute of the city of Phila[delphia]] have selected you as one among a number of Gentlemen in our Boroughs to deliver a lecture at such fine and place as will here after we designated to you and on such subjects as your judgment and such have dictate, an early why and acception a will we argue able to the undersigned committee - Respectfully yours, Dec 5 1835 L.E. Parsons Jose[ph] J. Slocum E.E. Melfins Lecture
Back Page:
Hon. Judge Jessup
Wilkes-Barre
Charles Hamilton Autographs 515 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK 22. N.Y. Fine Autographs of Interest and Importance [archivist note: Jan’y. ‘57]
Front Page:
Hon. Judge Jessup Sir The Wilkes Barre Library Association having for its object mental improvement and desirous of awakening the literary taste of this community and in imitation of the Athaiman Institute of the city of Phila[delphia]] have selected you as one among a number of Gentlemen in our Boroughs to deliver a lecture at such fine and place as will here after we designated to you and on such subjects as your judgment and such have dictate, an early why and acception a will we argue able to the undersigned committee - Respectfully yours, Dec 5 1835 L.E. Parsons Jose[ph] J. Slocum E.E. Melfins Lecture
Back Page:
Hon. Judge Jessup
Wilkes-Barre
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
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Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu