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Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Conditions Governing Access:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Preferred Citation:

Archibald McClean Letter to Charles S. Morgan, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Acc. 2014.055 was received by Special Collections from the donor via U.S.P.S. on 3/6/2014.

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally processed by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in May 2014.

Scope and Contents

Contains a letter from Archibald McClean to Charles S. Morgan regarding the 1830 Virginia Convention in Richmond, Virginia. In the letter, McClean talked about giving more representation in Virginia to the majority of residents instead of an oligarchy of the elite class. He ended his letter referring to Andrew Jackson, president of the United States, as a "plain, unostentatious republican in manners and quite accessible. But I could not receive the impression that he is a great man."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
• Letters (correspondence)
• Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century
• Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1829-1830)