Topics include Spanish war; Florida and slavery; Representative Henry Clay's (KY) aspirations to become President after President James Monroe; Secretary of State John Quincy Adams; Representative Joel Crawford (GA).
Topics include soldiers pensions; Federal deficit; duel between Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron resulting in the death of Decatur.
Letter to brother-in-law. Topics include health of members of Congress; health of son Samuel P. Crafts; Representative Henry Clay to introduce a Senate resolution on the admission of Missouri to the United States; Florida treaty and Spain.
Letter to wife. Topics include traveling from New York to Washington, DC; lodgings in Washington, DC; start of Congress with organizational matters and election of a Speaker of the House.
Letter to wife. Topics include the decision of House of Representatives to make John Quincy Adams the next President of the United States and General Andrew Jackson's response.
Letter to wife. Topics include health of Eunice and Samuel P. Crafts; social life and parties in Washington, DC; Byron and Southey's Visions of Judgment.
Letter to wife. Topics include visit of General Lafayette to Congress and the United States; Crafts' opinion that the House will select John Quincy Adams as President.
Letter to wife. Topics include party for the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans at General Brown's; Crafts' introduction to General Lafayette and presentation of a resolution inviting him to visit Vermont.
Letter to wife. Topics include question of Missouri's acceptance into the United States by Congress and split between Northern and Southern members; federal deficit and consideration of reduction of pay for government employees; social life; invitation to dine at President James Monroe's.
Letter to wife. Topics include health of son Samuel P. Crafts; health of members of Congress; two members of the House and one Senator have died from causes possibly related to an influenza outbreak that fall.
