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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 MaterialDuff Green papers, 1716-1883 Journalist, politician, entrepreneur, and industrial promoter. Correspondence, writings, maps, and printed matter reflecting Green’s political service and views on Southern culture.
- Contributor: Green, Duff
- Date: 1716
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialJames Henry Hammond papers, 1774-1875 Senator, governor, and plantation owner. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, plantation manuals, account books, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to South Carolina and national politics in the three decades preceding the Civil War. Subjects include nullification, secession, slavery, the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850), state banks, states' rights, and the tariff. Also includes a mercantile letterbook, 1774-1780, of Andrew McLean.
- Contributor: Hammond, James Henry
- Date: 1774
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialEdward Frost papers, 1795-1901 Planter, businessman, state legislator, and district attorney for South Carolina. Family correspondence, political, legal, and business records, commissions, appointments, wills, estate and plantation accounts, ledgers, and memorabilia relating to Frost's service as district attorney and states' rights delegate from Charleston to the South Carolina legislature and his interest in the Blue Ridge Railroad Company.
- Contributor: Frost, Edward
- Date: 1795
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHumphrey Marshall papers, 1771-2002 Lawyer, army officer, United States representative from Kentucky, and Confederate States of America representative from Virginia. Correspondence, diaries, financial and legal papers, notes, speeches, writings, printed matter and other material relating chiefly to Humphrey Marshall's activities as a lawyer, soldier, and politician.
- Contributor: Marshall, Humphrey
- Date: 1771
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAlexander Hamilton Stephens papers, 1784-1886 Lawyer, journalist, governor of Georgia, member of both houses of Congress, and vice president of the Confederate States of America. Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, legal documents, clippings, and an autobiography and journal reflecting Stephens’s career in government and politics.
- Contributor: Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton)
- Date: 1784
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialGouverneur Morris papers, 1771-1834 Lawyer, diplomat, and senator from New York. Letterbooks, diaries, legal and financial papers, and miscellany relating to Morris's mission to London, 1790-1791, his service as minister to France, 1792-1794, and in the United States Senate, 1800-1803. Also includes material relating to social life in Paris, the French Revolution, Morris's New York estate, the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention, and other events of the...
- Contributor: Morris, Gouverneur
- Date: 1771
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAlexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1784, May 17-1846, Aug. 18
- Contributor: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
- Date: 1784-05-17
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAlexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; Undated; A-B
- Contributor: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
- Date: 1784
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAlexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; Undated; C-S
- Contributor: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
- Date: 1784
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAlexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; Undated; T-W
- Contributor: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
- Date: 1784
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAlexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; Unidentified
- Contributor: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
- Date: 1784
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAlexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; Miscellaneous
- Contributor: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton
- Date: 1784
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