John M. Gordon Family Correspondence, 1826 - 1839

Contains Gordon's incoming correspondence while he was a student (1826-1832) at Yale College and while working in Baltimore. The letters are largely from his mother Susan F. Gordon and his sister Susan F. Gordon. Their letters describe their activities at the family home Kenmore, in Virginia. There are also letters from his wife Emily C. Gordon describing her activities in Philadelphia while visiting her family and her children's illnesses and treatments as well as her own ill-health. Included in this box are several letters by John M. Gordon to his father detailing the issues behind the 1828 Yale student boycott of classes.