ATHERTON, Charles Gordon, 1804-1853



Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office

Guide to Research Collections

American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, MA
Papers: 1838-1852. 1 folder; 34 items. Includes seven letters, memoranda, notes, and accounts. The memoranda and notes concern the independent Treasury plan, a dispute over the procedure in selecting the congressional printer, Jefferson’s opinions on various issues, and notes for political speeches. Finding aid.


Boston Public Library
Boston, MA
Papers: 2 items.


New Hampshire Historical Society
Concord, NH
Papers: 1772-1853. 61 items. Chiefly political correspondence, including letters of Charles Humphrey Atherton, William Gordon, and William Plumer and anonymous letters reviling the gag rule of 1838. Also correspondence in the Tristram Shaw papers, 1828-1843. Finding aid.


Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA
Papers: Correspondence in the Tucker family papers, 1680-1878.