Speeches and three items of correspondence of U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell (1935-1905). Mitchell was a U.S. senator for Oregon who servered at various points from the 1870s to the 1900s. In 1905, he was convicted of having accepted bribes, and he died while awaiting an appeal for his conviction.

Collection includes correspondence, 1823-1834, to Littleton Dennis Teackle from John Adams, Henry Clay, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Mentor Johnson, Edward Livingston, James Madison, and Roger Brooke Taney. Teackle (1777-1848) was a Maryland businessman and member of the Maryland House of Delegates.