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Encloses letters from Colonel Ewell of interest to Devens; discusses his past employment; asks for employment in the Department of the Attorney General. 4 pp. Cy of ALS.

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Encloses letters from Colonel Ewell, President of William and Mary College; discusses the upcoming election and the Mahone movement; urges the Republican party to join forces with Mahone to create "a true National attitude in the Senate" and to crush out the Bourbon Democracy and break up the South; discusses prospects for local elections [Virginia]; asks for a commission to be restored to him. 5 pp. ACys of ALS.

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Discusses the plans of the Bourbon Funder faction to create divisions among the ranks of the Republicans; states that may succeed in leading away the Coloured people; notes that Baily is the only one who could give the Bourbons a chance at the election; asks Tyler to ask Baily to withdraw. 3 pp. ALS.

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Quotes to Baily a letter from General Mahone urging Baily to withdraw his candidacy; advises Baily to do the same; informs Baily of the character and status of Mahone. 2 pp. ACyS of ALS.

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Relates the advantage to the Southern states there would have been if there were more men like Tyler who had the courage to affiliate themselves with the Republican party and endure the stamp of "Traitor and Renegade" by their fellow citizens; encloses a letter in support of President Grant in 1872. 6 pp. ALS.

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Copy of above letter in Tyler's hand. 4 pp. Cy of ALS.

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Recommends John Tyler to the office of Attorney General; complimetns Tyler's abilities as a "learned and eloquent writer and speaker, a lawyer of known reputation." 1 p. Cy of ALS.

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Apologizes to Tyler for the delay in sending the letters Tyler had requested. 1 p. ALS.

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Asks Tyler to meet him at the Court House at 12 tomorrow to discuss business connected with Tyler's legislation. 1 p. ALS.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Series 1: Group A, Acc. 78 T97 and 1992.63:  Papers, 1856-1895, of John Tyler, Jr., post Civil War Republican Party activist. Subjects covered by the collection include alcoholism, Republican Party politics, Presidential elections, political patronage, Reconstruction, Methodist Episcopal Church, Florida, Braxton Bragg, and the Fenian Brotherhood. Prominent correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Chester Alan Arthur, Pierre G. T. Beauregard, James Gillespie Blaine, James Buchanan,...