Edwards, John, 1748-1837 (SC 3417)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

5-8-2019

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3417. Letter, 12 December 1824, of John Edwards, Lexington, Kentucky to George W. Williams, Paris, Kentucky. The former U.S. senator offers to discuss the terms on which Williams is to hire out slaves for Edwards’s factory business, but declines his request to train them in cigar-making. He also reports on his law studies, his hopes for financial success, and on a recent visit to Frankfort, Kentucky, where he found state legislators to be “mere factionists,” “without intelligence, without principle, dignity, [or] virtue.”

Disciplines

Business | United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Edwards, John, 1748-1837 (SC 3417)" (2019). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 4673.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4673