Scope and Content Note
The microfilm of the papers of John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) spans the years 1811-1850 containing correspondence to and from Calhoun as well as related documents. The microfilm was created as a source collection for the letterpress edition of Calhoun’s papers being prepared for publication in the 1950s by the University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and the South Caroliniana Society. Produced by the National Historical Publications Commission of the National Archives, it includes reproductions of the John C. Calhoun Papers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress as the collection existed prior to 1954 as well as correspondence and documents from other collections in the custody of the Manuscript Division at that time. Among the collections from which items were selected and reproduced were the papers of Jacob Brown, Andrew Jackson Donelson, James Henry Hammond, Galloway-Maxcey-Markoe families, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Henry Rowe Schoocraft, and Gideon Welles. Items of prominence in addition to correspondence include Calhoun's last Senate speech, March 4, 1850, pertaining to the Compromise of 1850 and a list of rules from 1828 for the Commissioner of Public Buildings.