Draper Manuscripts: Thomas Spottswood Hinde Papers, 1807-1845

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Series: 39 Y (Volume 39)
Scope and Content Note: Miscellaneous notes, sermons, poetry, and articles, 1824-1827. Among materials of historical interest are a plan for government for Indian tribes, 1824, sent to John C. Calhoun by John Cleves Symmes and Hinde; an anecdote about Tecumseh told to Hinde by Thomas Bryant of Kentucky; a list of Hinde's books in 1824; a series of political articles and letters, 1824-1825, involving the Burr conspiracy, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson; a prospectus for a proposed political, literary, and historical journal to be titled The Western Pioneer; a paper on the history of Methodism in the United States; and a biography of his father Dr. Thomas Hinde, written in 1826.