Box 7
Container
Contains 1 Result:
U.S. Office of the Chief of Engineers to Orville E. Babcock (2 letters), 1877-1880
File — Box: 7, Folder: 402
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
Contains primarily incoming correspondence received while Babcock served as private secretary to President Grant, with a large portion of the letters concerning Grant’s attempted annexation of Santo Domingo and Babcock’s Whiskey Ring trial. Many of the letters have a penciled draft of Babcock’s reply on verso. Also contains family correspondence, notably a series of courtship letters from Orville Babcock to Annie Campbell prior to their marriage. Some family correspondence extends beyond...
Dates:
1877-1880