Box 1

Great concern over the Venezuelan dispute. Attacks House Republicans. Recalls visit to Wye House and mentions Col. Edward Lloyd (1825-1907), whom he tried to get appointed Collector of the Port of Baltimore in 1893. On Maryland politics and government: “Maryland will have to go through an era of suffering before the good and true can organize for honest government....”

Re: the free coinage of silver. Attacks those who favor free silver, McKinley, etc.  Very depressed about the state of political affairs in the U.S.  Requests a copy of Teackle Wallis's works edited by William Hand Browne.

This collection contains thirteen letters, nine of which are from Bayard to Emory. The correspondence is mainly of a political and diplomatic nature. Bayard Emory to be Director of the Pan American Union. In the letters Bayard discusses events of the day, personal views on Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley, treaties (especially arbitration concerning the preservation of seals in the Bering Sea), the silver standard and free coinage of silver, and tariff reform.