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CollectionGeorge Washington diary, AMs written in the leaves of the 1762 Virginia Almanack. Topics include farming, horse breeding, and the management of Mount Vernon.
- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Washington, George
- Date: 1762
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMarian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995 Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.
- Contributor: Carson, Marian S.
- Date: 1656
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAlexander Hamilton papers, 1708-1917 Delegate from New York to the United States Continental Congress, United States secretary of the treasury, United States army officer, statesman, and lawyer. Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal and financial papers, printed matter, and other papers relating to Hamilton's personal life and public career, especially his service as an aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War, his participation in the United States Continental...
- Contributor: Hamilton, Alexander
- Date: 1708
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGideon Welles papers, 1777-1911 Secretary of the navy and newspaper editor. Correspondence, diaries, writings, naval records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Welles's work as editor of the Hartford Times; his activities as a member of the Democratic Party and, later, the Republican Party in state and national politics; the role of the navy in the Civil War; and the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
- Contributor: Welles, Gideon
- Date: 1777
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialNicholas Philip Trist papers, 1795-1873 Diplomat and lawyer. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, notes, reports, legal and financial papers, writings, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Trist's tenure as U.S. consul in Havana and his role in negotiating the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican War. Other topics include Trist's business interests, particularly his sugar plantations in Cuba and Louisiana; the establishment of the University...
- Contributor: Trist, Nicholas Philip
- Date: 1795
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWilliam Thornton papers, 1741-1865 Architect, inventor, and superintendent of patents. Diaries, architectural drawings, and other papers pertaining to the development of the steamboat, African-American colonization and emigration, the revolt of Spanish colonies in South America, Greek independence, and Thornton's disputes with Benjamin Latrobe over designs for the United States Capitol.
- Contributor: Thornton, William
- Date: 1741
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAndrew Ellicott papers, 1777-1829 Surveyor and mathematician. Correspondence, maps, charts, and reports of astronomical observations chiefly concerning Ellicott's work in surveying the boundary between the United States and Florida under the San Lorenzo Treaty (1795) and also his surveys of the city of Washington, the boundary between Georgia and South Carolina, the town of Presque Isle (later Erie), Pennsylvania, and the boundary between the United States and Canada...
- Contributor: Ellicott, Andrew
- Date: 1777
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWilliam Bebb papers, 1705-1849 Educator, lawyer, and governor of Ohio. Autograph letters and clipped signatures from an album started for Bebb by his father, Edward Bebb, and Samuel Roberts, Welsh political reformer and founder of a settlement in Tennessee. Includes autographs of British politicians, military leaders, authors, and missionaries. Letters collected by William Bebb himself include those from prominent Americans including John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, William...
- Contributor: Bebb, William
- Date: 1705
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSamuel Smith family papers, 1772-1911 Army officer and statesman. Correspondence, letterbooks, military and political papers, and miscellaneous material relating to Samuel Smith's forty years in Congress, his military career, and the history and politics of Maryland. Includes papers relating to John Spear Smith, Robert Smith, and other Smith family members.
- Contributor: Smith, Samuel
- Date: 1772
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAnna Maria Brodeau Thornton papers, 1793-1861 Wife of architect William Thornton. Diaries and notebooks primarily describing social life in Washington, D.C., with extensive detail about housekeeping and expense matters. Also contained in the diaries are memorandum books, poems, sketches, and silhouettes of unidentified people.
- Contributor: Thornton, Anna Maria Brodeau
- Date: 1793
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWilliam B. Randolph papers, 1696-1884 Virginia plantation owner. Correspondence, legal and financial records, and miscellaneous material reflecting the life of a plantation owner and enslaver in Virginia prior to the Civil War, with particular emphasis on the economics of managing an extensive plantation worked by a large force of enslaved people.
- Contributor: Randolph, William B.
- Date: 1696
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialCustis-Lee family papers, 1700-circa 1928 Correspondence, letterbooks, genealogical papers, notebooks, financial records, indentures, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting the activities of several generations of the Custis and Lee families of Virginia, who served as diplomats, statesmen, politicians, planters, and military officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Date: 1700
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHenry A. Willard II collection, 1743-1888 Papers and records collected by Henry A Willard II including Bradley-Willard family papers and correspondence, Willard Hotel records, miscellaneous business records, and autographs collected by Henry A. Willard I that include the signers of the Declaration of Independence, presidents of the Continental Congress, and related individuals.
- Contributor: Willard, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
- Date: 1743
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGeorge Washington papers, 1592-1943 United States president, United States Army officer, and patriot. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, accounts, military papers, and other papers documenting Washington's relations with the Continental Congress, his command of the Continental Army, his presidency, and other aspects of his career.
- Contributor: Washington, George
- Date: 1592
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDaniel Todd Patterson papers, 1772-1927 Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, ship records, subject files, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Patterson's naval career.
- Contributor: Patterson, Daniel Todd
- Date: 1772
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialCharles Thomson papers, 1765-1888 Secretary of Continental Congress, biblical translator, and merchant. Correspondence relating to the official business of the Continental Congress and the American Revolution, scientific and scholarly matters, personal affairs, and including petitions, notes on debates, and translations of portions of the New Testament from Greek to English.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles
- Date: 1765
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAdams family papers, 1776-1948 Chiefly correspondence of John Quincy Adams dated 1801-1846. Also includes correspondence and miscellany relating to other family members.
- Date: 1776
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialNathanael Greene papers, 1775-1785 Army officer. Correspondence, letterbook, militia lists, documents relating to the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes, and military reports documenting Greene's military career with emphasis on his involvement in the Continental Army campaign in the Southern Department.
- Contributor: Greene, Nathanael
- Date: 1775
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSamuel Adams papers, 1635-1826 Continental congressman and governor of Massachusetts. Reproductions of correspondence, speeches, petitions, committee records, and other material relating primarily to Adams’s political life in Massachusetts.
- Contributor: Adams, Samuel
- Date: 1635
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialJames Madison papers, 1723-1859 United States president and secretary of state, delegate to the United States Continental Congress, and United States representative from Virginia. Correspondence, memoranda, autobiography, notes of debates in the Continental Congress (1776) and the Federal Convention (1787), and related material.
- Contributor: Madison, James
- Date: 1723
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialJames Monroe papers, 1758-1839 United States president, secretary of state, secretary of war, and diplomat; delegate to the Continental Congress from and governor of Virginia. Correspondence relating primarily to negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe-Pinkney treaty with Great Britain, the War of 1812, the purchase of Florida, South American independence, and Virginia politics and a diary, an account book of memoranda and official and personal accounts, and...
- Contributor: Monroe, James
- Date: 1758
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialJames Dudley Morgan collection of Digges-L'Enfant-Morgan papers, 1674-1923 Chiefly correspondence, accounts, commissions, notes, and other papers (1778-1828) relating to soldier and engineer Pierre C. L'Enfant, including material concerning the Society of the Cincinnati, the design of the city of Washington, D.C., Robert Morris's home in Philadelphia, and Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania, and Fort Washington, Maryland. Also includes papers relating to the Digges family of Prince Georges County, Maryland, especially Thomas Atwood Digges and...
- Contributor: Morgan, James Dudley
- Date: 1674
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHarry Innes papers, 1754-1900 Lawyer and jurist. Correspondence, financial, business and legal papers, biographical and genealogical material, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Innes's work as a lawyer and judge handling land claims and surveys.
- Contributor: Innes, Harry
- Date: 1754
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWilliam Short papers, 1778-1853 Secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, diplomat, and landowner. Diplomatic, financial, and personal correspondence, financial and business papers, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Short's activities as secretary to Jefferson, his diplomatic missions, and business interests.
- Contributor: Short, William
- Date: 1778
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialShippen family papers, 1671-1936 Correspondence, diaries, account books, memorandum books, legal and business records, indentures, and miscellaneous papers of Thomas Lee Shippen, William Shippen Jr., Anne Home Shippen Livingston, Edward Shippen, and other family members. Also included are papers of the Nicholson family.
- Date: 1671