L.Q.C. Lamar Collection

Résumé du livre

The L.Q.C. Lamar Collection contains forty-seven photocopied letters and telegrams written by L.Q.C. Lamar between 1869 and 1885. The vast majority are addressed to his friend and confidant Edward Donaldson Clark. Lamar's letters contain discussions on political and election strategies, the 1874 U.S. House of Representative investigation of the Vicksburg race riots, Reconstruction, General E.C. Walthall, Lamar's health and family, and legislative issues such as the currency debates. Of particular note is an 1877 letter from Lamar to Clark conveying the senator's impressions of his Mississippi colleague, Blanche K. Bruce, the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. Clark is either the author or recipient of four other pieces of correspondence. The L.Q.C. Lamar Collection also contains six newspaper clippings about Lamar or Walthall, a photocopy of memorandum regarding the settlement of accounts with Lamar and Clark's law firm in Oxford, and a photocopy of an 1887 engraved wedding announcement for their daughter Jennie Longstreet Lamar.