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[Identification of item], in the Henry Clay Papers, #154-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Burchard, Charles A., fl. 1844-1846.
• Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
• Clayton, John M. (John Middleton), 1796-1856.
• Foote, John Jackman, 1832-1897.
• Smith, H. L. (Hamilton Lanphere), 1819-1903.
• United States--Politics and government--1829-1837.
• United States--Politics and government--1841-1845.
• Wheatley, Seth, fl. 1837.
• Whiting, S. W., fl. 1844.

Henry Clay (1777-1852) of Kentucky was a United States Senator, Representative, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and unsuccessful presidential candidate.

The collection contains three original letters (two from Henry Clay, one to him); a newspaper clipping of a letter from Clay to J. M. Clayton, 1844; photoprints of two letters from Clay; and a statement about two of the original letters. The original letters are one from Charles Burchard and John J. Foote to Clay, 1844, asking him to issue a statement of his stand on slavery; Clay's response to Burchard and Foote, indicating that his stand was well known; and one from Clay to S. W. Whiting, 1844, about an error made in the publication of one of Clay's speeches. The photoprints are of a letter, 1837, from Clay to Seth Wheatley about political matters, and from Clay to Hamilton Smith, 1834, about politics and commerce.