Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843 to Henry Maynadier

GLC02379

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GLC#
GLC02379
Type
Letters
Date
November 26, 1819
Author/Creator
Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843
Title
to Henry Maynadier
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
2 p. : address ; Height: 30 cm, Width: 21 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
The First Age of Reform

Written from Georgetown. Key writes to his uncle about depressed stock prices. He also discusses colonizing 12 captured Africans who are in Baltimore (he does not explain how they came to be there), in reference to his efforts through the American Colonization Society.

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