Politics and government

Abstract The Thomas Law family papers is a collection made up almost exclusively of the papers of Thomas Law and his two sons John and Edmund. Thomas Law's papers include both incoming and outgoing correspondence 1791-1834, and essays and opinions written by Law on various philosophic, economic and political topics. All of the correspondence either comes from or is written to Washington DC where Law lived after emigrating to the U.S. in 1794. Topics discussed in the letters include U.S....