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                          THE BRECKINRIDGE FAMILY

            A Register of Its Papers in the Library of Congress

                 Prepared by Grover Batts and Thelma Queen
                          Revised and expanded by
                 Grover Batts, David Mathisen, and others

                                    1995

                            Manuscript Division
                            Library of Congress

                        Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

                             Edited Full Draft

                Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
                          Manuscript Division,1997

1999 revised to EAD version 1
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Table of Contents for THE BRECKINRIDGE FAMILY
Collection Summary
Selected Search Terms

   * Names:
   * Subjects:

Administrative Information

Biographical Notes

   * Henry Breckinridge
   * John Breckinridge
   * John Cabell Breckinridge
   * Joseph Cabell Breckinridge
   * Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge
   * Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
   * Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
   * William Campbell Preston Breckinridge
   * Clifton Rodes Breckinridge

Scope and Content Note
Description of Series

   * Breckinridge Family Papers, 1752- 1904.
   * Henry Breckinridge Papers, 1909- 1954, n.d.
   * Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Papers, 1844- 1909, n.d.
   * Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge Papers, 1895- 1921, n.d.
   * Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Papers, 1807- 1871, n.d.
   * Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Papers, 1873- 1949, n.d.
   * William C. P. Breckinridge Papers, 1851- 1904, n.d.
   * Mary Desha Papers, 1892- 1910, n.d.
   * Other Family Papers, 1779- 1965, n.d.
   * Addition, 1816- 1980, n.d.
   * Oversize, 1930- 1954.

Container List

   * BRECKINRIDGE FAMILY PAPERS, 1752- 1904
   * HENRY BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1909- 1954, n.d.
   * JOSEPH CABELL BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1844- 1909, n.d.
   * MADELINE (McDOWELL) BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1895- 1921, n.d.
   * ROBERT JEFFERSON BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1807- 1871, n.d.
   * SOPHONISBA P. BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1873- 1949, n.d.
   * WILLIAM C. P. BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1851- 1904, n.d.
   * MARY DESHA PAPERS, 1892- 1910, n.d.
   * OTHER FAMILY PAPERS, 1779- 1965, n.d.
   * ADDITION, 1816- 1980, n.d.
   * OVERSIZE, 1899- 1912

Appendix

     Chronological List of the Names of Major Family Members, Their
     Spouses, and Children

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Collection Summary

Creator: Breckinridge Family
Title: Breckinridge Family Papers 1752-1965
Extent: 263 linear feet; 205,000 items
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, speeches and articles, subject files,
financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, and other papers of various members
of the Breckinridge family prominent in Kentucky and national politics and
government. The bulk of the collection is composed of the papers of John
Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, John Cabell Breckinridge,
William C. P. Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Mary Desha,
Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge, and
Henry Breckinridge.

Selected Search Terms

Names:

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930
Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Church, William Conant, 1836-1917
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Condon, John F. (John Francis), 1860-1945
Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894
Funk, Antoinette, d. 1942
Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917
Greely, A. W. (Adolphus Washington), 1844-1935
Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974
Guthrie, James, 1792-1869
Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919
Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Johnson, Tom Loftin, 1854-1911
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987
Lawton, H. W. (Henry W.), d. 1899
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, 1930-1932--Kidnapping, 1932
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924
McKinley, William, 1843-1901
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Marshall, John, 1755-1835
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925
Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864
Perkins, Frances, 1882-1965
Porter, Horace, 1837-1921
Procopé, Hjalmar Johna Fredrik, 1889-1954
Proctor, Redfield, 1831-1908
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Selfridge, T. O. (Thomas Oliver), 1836-1924
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826
Shouse, Jouett, 1879-1968
Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1880-1944
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914
Straus, Oscar, 1870-1954
Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953
Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1846-1926
White, William Allen, 1868-1944
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949
Breckinridge family
Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes, 1846-1932. Papers
Breckinridge, Desha, 1867-1935. Papers
Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960. Papers
Breckinridge, John, 1760-1806. Papers
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875. Papers
Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell, 1842-1920. Papers
Breckinridge, Katherine Carson. Papers
Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell, 1872-1920. Papers
Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson), 1800-1871. Papers
Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston, 1866-1948. Papers
Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904. Papers
Desha, Mary, 1850-1911. Papers
Confederate States of America. Army
Kentucky. Attorney General's Office
Kentucky General Assembly
United States. Army
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
United States. Army. Office of the Inspector General
United States. Attorney-General
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. War Dept.
Constitutional Party
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
Pan-American Conference (1933 : Montevideo, Uruguay)

Subjects:

Lexington observer and reporter
Alien and Sedition laws, 1798
American Confederate voluntary exiles
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798
Practice of law--Kentucky--Lexington
Practice of law--New York (State)--New York
Presbyterian Church--Clergy
Presidents--United States--Election--1936
Social legislation--Kentucky
Social legislation--United States
Social service--Kentucky
Social service--United States
Women--Suffrage
Diplomatic and consular service, American--Russia
Kentucky--Politics and government--1792-1865
Kentucky--Politics and government--1865-1951
Russia--Foreign relations--United States
United States--Foreign relations--Russia
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Politics and government--19th century
United States--Politics and government--20th century

Administrative Information

The Breckinridge Family Papers contain the manuscripts of Katherine Carson
Breckinridge (1853-1921), Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (1846-1932), John
Breckinridge (1760-1806), Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1800-1871), John
Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875), William C. P. Breckinridge (1837-1904),
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge(1866-1948), Mary Desha (1850-1911), Sophonisba
Preston Breckinridge (1866-1948), Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge
(1872-1920), Henry [Skillman] Breckinridge (1886-1960), and other members
of the Breckinridge family. The papers were given to the Library of
Congress by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Desha Breckinridge, Henry
Breckinridge, Clifton R. Breckinridge, Mrs. Jefferson Patterson, Mrs. James
Carson Breckinridge, James T. Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, and others over
the years 1905-1988.

The Library has no information on the status of copyright in the
unpublished writings of the various members of the Breckinridge family in
these papers and in other collections of papers in the Library's custody.

The papers of Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, comprising containers 739-78 of
the Breckinridge family papers, have been reproduced on 37 reels of
microfilm. This microfilm edition is available from the Library's
Photoduplication Service for purchase subject to the Copyright Law of the
United States (Title 17, U.S.C.). It may also be requested on interlibrary
loan through the Library's Loan Division. Ten reels may be requested at a
time for a loan period of one month.

Photographs, engravings, maps, sheet music, and other material have been
transferred to the appropriate divisions of the Library where they are
identified as part of these papers.

The original register prepared by Grover Batts and Thelma Queen in 1980 was
revised and expanded by Grover Batts, David Mathisen, and others in 1982,
1984, 1988, and 1995.

Biographical Notes

(A Chronological list of the names of major family members, their spouses,
and children is also available.)

Henry Breckinridge

 1886 , May
 25            Born, Chicago, Ill.

 1907          A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

 1910          LL.B, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
               Married Ruth Bradley Woodman

 1910 -13      Law practice, Lexington, Ky.

 1913 -16      Assistant secretary of war

 1916 -17      First vice president, Pacific Hardware and Steel Co., San
               Francisco, Calif.

 1917 -19      Served with American Expeditionary Forces

 1922 - 1960   Law practice, New York, N.Y.

 1927          Married Aida de Acosta Root (divorced)

 1932          Counsel to Charles A. Lindbergh during kidnap ransom
               negotiations

 1934          Candidate of Constitutional Party for senator from New York

 1936          Entered presidential preference primaries in four states

 1947          Married Margaret Lucy Smith

 1960 , May 2  Died, New York, N.Y

John Breckinridge

 1760 , Dec.
 2             Born near present site of Staunton, Va.

 1779 - 1780   Attended College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.

 1785          Married Mary Hopkins Cabell
               Admitted to Virginia bar

 1792          Left Virginia and settled near Lexington, Ky.

 1792 - 1795   Practiced law

 1795          Appointed attorney general of Kentucky

 1797 - 1801   Served in Kentucky state legislature

 1801 - 1805   Senator from Kentucky

 1805 - 1806   Attorney general of the United States

 1806 , Dec.
 14            Died, Lexington, Ky.

John Cabell Breckinridge

 1821 , Jan.
 15            Born near Lexington, Ky.

 1839          Graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky.

 1840 - 1841   Studied law at Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky.

 1843          Married Mary Cyrene Burch

 1849 - 1851   Represented Fayette County in Kentucky state legislature

 1851 - 1855   Served in United States House of Representatives

 1856          Elected vice president of the United States

 1860          Presidential nominee of the Democratic National Convention

 1861          United States Senator from Kentucky

 1861 - 1865   Served in Confederate army

 1865 - 1868   Lived in exile in Europe

 1869          Returned to law practice in Lexington, Ky.

 1875 , May
 17            Died, Lexington, Ky.

Joseph Cabell Breckinridge

 1842 , Jan.
 14            Born, Baltimore, Md.

 1861          Joined United States Army; promoted through grades to major
               general, 1903

 1868          Married Louise Ludlow Dudley

 1889 - 1903   Inspector general, United States Army

 1892 - 1899   Vice president general, Sons of the American Revolution

 1898          Participated in Santiago campaign, Spanish-American War

 1900 - 1901   President general, Sons of the American Revolution

 1920 , Aug.
 18            Died, Washington, D.C.

Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge

 1872 , May
 20            Born, Woodlake, Ky.

 1898          Married Desha Breckinridge

 1912 - 1915
 , 1919        President, Kentucky Equal Rights Association

 1913 - 1917   Vice president, State Tuberculosis Commission

 1920 , Nov.
 15            Died, Lexington, Ky.

Robert Jefferson Breckinridge

 1800 , Mar.
 8             Born, Fayette County, Ky.

 1819          Graduated, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

 1823          Married Ann Sophonisba Preston (died, 1844)

 1824          Began law practice

 1825 - 1828   Served in Kentucky state legislature

 1832          Studied for the ministry at Princeton University,
               Princeton, N.J.
               Licensed to preach in Presbyterian church

 1832 - 1845   Minister, Second Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Md.

 1836          Representative of Presbyterian General Assembly in Glasgow,
               Scotland

 1845 - 1847   President, Jefferson College

 1847          Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Ky.
               Married Mrs. Virginia (Hart) Shelby (died, 1859)

 1847 - 1851   Superintendent of public instruction for Kentucky public
               school system

 1853 - 1869   Professor, Danville Theological Seminary, Danville, Ky.

 1858          Publication of The Knowledge of God, Objectively
               Considered... (New York: R. Carter & Brothers, 530 p.)

 1859          Publication of The Knowledge of God, Subjectively
               Considered... (New York: R. Carter & Brothers, 697 p.)
               Married Margaret (Faulkner) White

 1871 , Nov
 27            Died, Danville, Ky.

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge

 1866          Born, Lexington, Ky.

 1888          S.B., Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

 1901          Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

 1902 - 1933   Instructor and professor, University of Chicago, Chicago,
               Ill.

 1908 - 1920   Resident of Hull House, Chicago, Ill.

 1915          Delegate to Women's Peace Congress, The Hague, Netherlands

 1930          Delegate to Pan-American Children's Congress, Lima, Peru

 1930          President, Illinois Welfare Association

 1933          Delegate to Pan-American Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay

 1934 - 1935   President, American Association of Schools of Social Work

 1948 , July
 30            Died, Chicago, Ill.

William Campbell Preston Breckinridge

 1837 , Aug.
 28            Born, Baltimore, Md.

 1855          Graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky.

 1857          Graduated from Louisville Law College and entered law
               practice, Louisville, Ky.

 1859          Married Lucretia Clay (died, 1860)

 1861          Married Issa Desha (died, 1892)

 1862          Joined Confederate Army

 1866 - 1868   Editor of Lexington Observer and Reporter, Lexington, Ky.

 1884 - 1894   Served in United States House of Representatives

 ----          Married Louise R. Scott Wing

 1897          Became chief editorial writer for Lexington Morning Herald,
               Lexington, Ky.

 1904 , Nov.
 19            Died, Lexington, Ky.

Clifton Rodes Breckinridge

 1846 , Nov.
 22            Born, Lexington, Ky.

 1870 - 1883   Cotton planter in Arkansas

 1876          Married Katherine Carson (also addressed as Catharine)

 1883 - 1894   Member of United States House of Representatives

 1894 - 1897   United States minister to Russia

 1917          Democratic member of the Arkansas State Constitutional
               Convention

 1932 , Dec.
 3             Died, Fort Smith, Ark.

Scope and Content Note

The Breckinridge Family Papers consist of approximately 200,000 manuscripts
and span the years 1752-1965. While there are some manuscripts of other
family members, the bulk of the collection is composed of the papers of
John Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, John Cabell Breckinridge,
William C. P. Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Mary Desha,
Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge, and
Henry Breckinridge.

The papers of John Breckinridge (1760-1806), which are among the most
important of the entire collection, are located in volumes 1-31. They
relate to his service as attorney general of Kentucky, his work in the
Kentucky state legislature as representative of Fayette County, and his
career in the U.S. Senate and as attorney general of the United States. Of
particular significance are those manuscripts relating to the Kentucky
Resolutions of 1798 and 1799, opposing the Alien and Sedition Acts enacted
by Congress. The Resolutions of 1798 were written by Breckinridge's close
friend Thomas Jefferson and were guided through the Kentucky legislature by
Breckinridge. In 1799, Breckinridge composed the second set of resolutions.
Among the outstanding correspondents represented in John Breckinridge's
papers are Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Marshall, James Monroe,
and Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky.

The papers of Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1800-1871), numbering
approximately 9,000 items, are dated from 1807 through 1871 and consist of
a diary, correspondence, a small subject file, a speech, article, and book
file, and miscellaneous items. Although Breckinridge was trained as a
lawyer and engaged in legal practice for the first six years of his career,
the death of two of his children and the sudden decline in his own health
caused him to turn to religion. He joined the Presbyterian church and
became a minister in 1832. Within his correspondence are letters from
Samuel Miller, an eminent professor of Christian history and government at
Princeton University, from other theologians, and from members of his
family. The bulk of his papers consists of speeches, sermons, articles, and
the holograph of his most notable book, The Knowledge of God.

The papers of John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875) are most numerous for
the years 1854-1857. They consist mainly of letters from constituents
during the time he served in Congress. There is little correspondence for
the years 1861-1867 when he served in the Confederate Army and, following
the war, lived in exile in Europe. However, his papers resume in 1868 when
he returned to America and entered into law practice in Lexington,
Kentucky. There are a few letters which he received from Braxton Bragg,
Jubal A. Early, James Guthrie, John Marshall Harlan, and Robert E. Lee.

The papers of William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837-1904) cover the
years 1851 through 1904 and consist of approximately 14,000 items,
including a journal, correspondence, subject files, a speech and article
file, financial papers, and miscellaneous items. Following his graduation
from the Louisville (Kentucky) Law College in 1857, Breckinridge practiced
law in Lexington until he joined the Confederate forces of Gen. John H.
Morgan in July 1862 and served as colonel in command of the 9th Kentucky
Cavalry. His papers contain a letterbook of official army correspondence
for the years 1862-1864. A large number of letters he wrote to his wife,
Issa, during this period are with her manuscripts in the last group of
Breckinridge family papers ( Other Family Members). After the war he
resumed his law practice and was editor of the Lexington Observer and
Reporter until his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1884,
where he served until 1894. He was a superb speaker, and his papers contain
the texts of many of his most notable addresses. His last years were
clouded by a paternity suit, and there is much correspondence as well as
items in the subject file concerning this suit, Pollard v. Breckinridge.

The papers of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1842-1920) cover the years
1844-1909 and number approximately 55,000 items. With the beginning of the
Civil War, J. C. Breckinridge joined the Union Army in Kentucky in August
of 1861 and remained in military service until his retirement in 1903.
Although there is only a small amount of material relating to the Civil
War, the remainder of his career, including the period from 1889 to 1903
when he served as inspector general of the Army, is well documented. One of
his major interests was the organization, Sons of the American Revolution.
He was vice president general of the group from 1892 to 1899 and president
general from 1900 to 1901. Approximately one-fourth of his correspondence
relates to this subject. It is also prominent in his subject file, and
there is also a large body of speeches and articles prepared for the Sons
of the American Revolution and other military-oriented groups. Among the
correspondents are William C. Church, Edward M. Gallaudet, Adolphus
Washington Greely, John M. Harlan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Henry W. Lawton,
Henry Cabot Lodge, William McKinley, Nelson A. Miles, Horace Porter,
Redfield Proctor, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Approximately 2,000 items of Mary Desha (1850-1911) span the years
1892-1910 and contain a small group of correspondence, a subject file, and
miscellaneous items. Mary Desha, William C. P. Breckinridge's
sister-in-law, was one of three founders of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, and the greater part of her manuscripts relate to that
organization for the period 1894-1910.

The papers of Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866-1948) number about
14,000 items and cover the years 1873 through 1949. The bulk of the
manuscripts is made up of correspondence which covers the entire range of
her activities in the field of social work: studies of delinquent children,
juvenile court legislation, administration of aid to needy mothers, and
numerous other aspects of the developing social welfare programs of the
United States. The greater part of Sophonisba P. Breckinridge's
correspondence dates from 1933 to 1948, for although she retired as
professor of public welfare at the University of Chicago in 1933, she
continued to use her office at the university to correspond and work for
the passage of social legislation until her death. In 1933 President
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her as a delegate to the Pan-American
Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay, and her work there is fully documented
in the papers. Among the outstanding correspondents who are well
represented in her papers are Jane Addams, Alben W. Barkley, Ernest H.
Gruening, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Frances Perkins, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and Fred M. Vinson.

The papers of Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge (1872-1920), wife of Desha
Breckinridge, number approximately 11,000 items and span the years 1895 to
1921. Madeline Breckinridge was extraordinarily active and effective in
bringing about social reforms on the local level in the city of Lexington
and throughout the state of Kentucky and the nation. Her correspondence,
speeches and articles, and an extensive subject file concern her work with
civic leagues, women's clubs, and various state commissions. She was
chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Kentucky Federation of Women's
Clubs for four years, during which time she helped secure legislation to
create a state library commission and a forestry commission. Large portions
of her subject file deal with her efforts to create a state tuberculosis
commission, to establish parks and playgrounds, and to build a model
vocational school. The largest part of the subject file concerns her work
on behalf of woman suffrage (1901-1920). Within her correspondence are
numerous letters from Carrie Chapman Catt, Antoinette Funk, Ruth Hanna
McCormick Simms, Anna Howard Shaw, Jouett Shouse, and Stephen S. Wise.

The papers of Henry Breckinridge (1886-1960) consist of diaries,
correspondence, speeches, and articles for the years 1909-1954. In 1913, at
the age of twenty-seven, Breckinridge was appointed to serve as assistant
secretary of war in President Woodrow Wilson's first cabinet, a which he
held until his resignation three years later due to disagreement with the
administration's defense policies. This phase of his career is well
documented in diaries, correspondence, and speeches. Of particular interest
are his diary entries for August 6 through September 28, 1914, which
describe his trip to Europe to render assistance to thousands of Americans
stranded there since the beginning of World War I. After the United States
entered the war, Breckinridge served in Europe as commander of an army
battalion. He returned to his law practice in New York City in 1919.

Henry Breckinridge's correspondence contains letters from other members of
the family, mainly Desha and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, and from business
acquaintances and friends. Among the more significant correspondents are
Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University, Alfred M. Landon, Hjalmar
J. Procope, Finnish minister to the United States (1939-1944), James W.
Wadsworth, and William Allen White. After the kidnapping of Charles
Lindbergh's son in 1932, Breckinridge was engaged by Lindbergh as his legal
counsel during the ransom negotiations. The papers contain Breckinridge's
correspondence with Dr. John F. Condon (Jafsie) who acted as Lindbergh's
intermediary. A substantial part of Breckinridge's correspondence and
speech and article file reflects his interest in national politics. In 1934
he ran unsuccessfully as the candidate of the Constitutional Party for U.S.
Senator from New York, and in 1936 he entered presidential preferential
primaries in four states opposing President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New
Deal.

Papers of other Breckinridge family members are also located within bound
volumes 1-515, chronologically arranged for the period 1752-1904, and in
containers 828-849, which are alphabetically arranged by family member.
Within this latter group, the papers of Desha Breckinridge (1867-1935)
editor and publisher of the Lexington Morning Herald from 1897 to 1935, are
of particular interest.

Among a group of additional items given to the Library in 1981 by James T.
Breckinridge are papers of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, who served in the
U.S. House of Representatives from 1883 to 1894 and was American minister
to Russia, 1894-1897. Among his correspondents are Henry T. Allen,
President Grover Cleveland, Hilary Abner Herbert, Tom L. Johnson, Thomas O.
Selfridge, Adlai E. Stevenson and Oscar S. Straus. Letters written by
Clifton Breckinridge's wife, Katherine Carson Breckinridge, over the years
1894-1897 give a detailed and fascinating picture of life in czarist
Russia. These letters are located within her own correspondence (containers
852-853) and in the papers of her aunt, Susanna Preston Lees (container
866). There are also additional papers of Civil War general John Cabell
Breckinridge. They include correspondence with members of his family and
others for the years 1849-1875, as well as diaries describing his travels
in England, Europe, Palestine and Egypt (August 1866-March 1868) during his
exile from America following the Civil War.

Description of Series

 Container
 Nos.      Series

 BOX 1-515 Breckinridge Family Papers, 1752 - 1904 .

           Correspondence, legal papers, surveys, bills and receipts,
           printed matter, and miscellaneous items. These volumes contain
           papers of John Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, John
           Cabell Breckinridge, William C. P. Breckinridge, Joseph C.
           Breckinridge, and other family members. Unbound manuscripts of
           the above named members of the family are located in many of the
           containers described below.

           In chronological arrangement.

 BOX       Henry Breckinridge Papers, 1909 - 1954 , n.d.
 516-25

 BOX 516          Diaries, 1913 - 1915 .

 BOX 516-19       Letterbooks, 1913 - 1916 .

                  Copies of letters sent.

                  Chronologically arranged.

 BOX 520-25       Correspondence, 1909 - 1945 .

                  Letters sent and received.

                  Chronologically arranged.

 BOX 526-30       Speech and Article File, 1913 - 1945 , n.d.

                  Speeches and articles in typescript or printed form.

                  The speeches are chronologically arranged. The articles
                  are arranged alphabetically, although untitled articles
                  are chronologically arranged.

 BOX 531-35       Miscellany, 1913 - 1954 , n.d.

                  Miscellaneous items and printed matter, including
                  scrapbooks.

                  Chronologically arranged.

 BOX       Joseph Cabell Breckinridge Papers, 1844 - 1909 , n.d.
 536-679

 BOX 536          Diaries, 1864 - 1899 .
                  The diaries are arranged chronologically.

 BOX 537-71       Letterbooks, 1882 - 1903 .
                  The letterbooks are arranged chronologically.

 BOX 572-631      Correspondence, 1862 - 1909 .
                  Letters sent and received in chronological arrangement.

 BOX 632-36       Subject File, 1889 - 1902 .
                  Alphabetically arranged by subject title and
                  chronologically arranged within the subject.

 BOX 637-38       Speech and Article File, ca. 1888 - 1904 .
                  The speeches and articles are arranged alphabetically by
                  title; those with no titles are arranged by date.

 BOX 639-58       Financial Papers, 1844 - 1904 .

                  Account books, bills and receipts, cancelled checks, and
                  check stubs.

                  Arranged by type of material and chronologically arranged
                  within each group.

 BOX 659-79       Miscellany, 1858 - 1908 .

                  Scrapbooks, biographical papers, printed matter, and
                  miscellaneous items.

                  Arranged by type of material and chronologically arranged
                  within each group.

 BOX       Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge Papers, 1895 - 1921 , n.d.
 680-711

 BOX 680-92       Correspondence, 1895 - 1921 , n.d.
                  Letters sent and received in chronological arrangement.

 BOX 693-706      Subject File, 1901 - 1921 , n.d.
                  Alphabetically arranged by subject title and
                  chronologically arranged within each subject.

 BOX 706-8        Speech and Article File.
                  Speeches and articles in alphabetical arrangement by
                  title.

 BOX 709-11       Miscellany, 1898 - 1920 , n.d.

                  Bills and receipts, biographical material, and
                  miscellaneous items.

                  Segregated by type of material and chronologically
                  arranged within each group.

 BOX       Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Papers, 1807 - 1871 , n.d.
 712-38

 BOX 712          Diaries, 1836 - 1837 .
                  Arranged chronologically.

 BOX 712-13       Correspondence, 1821 - 1869 .
                  Letters sent and received in chronological arrangement.

 BOX 714          Subject File.
                  Arranged alphabetically by subject title.

 BOX 715-29       Speech, Article, and Book File.

                  Speeches, articles, and the manuscript of one book.

                  Arranged by type of manuscript and alphabetically arranged
                  within each group.

 BOX 730-38       Miscellany.

                  Bills and receipts, notebooks, printed matter, and other
                  miscellaneous items.

                  Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

 BOX       Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Papers, 1873 - 1949 , n.d.
 739-78
           Also on microfilm.

 BOX 739-73       Correspondence, 1880 - 1949 .
                  Letters sent and received; arranged chronologically,
                  except for a few groups of related letters which have been
                  kept together and arranged by the date of the first letter
                  in the group.

 BOX 773-74       Speech and Article File, ca. 1929-1940.
                  Speeches and articles in alphabetical arrangement by title
                  and in chronological arrangement where untitled.

 BOX 774-78       Miscellany, 1873 - 1949 .
                  Miscellaneous items grouped by type of material.

 BOX       William C. P. Breckinridge Papers, 1851 - 1904 , n.d.
 779-820

 BOX 779          Journal, 1884 .

 BOX 779          Letterbook, 1862 - 1864 .

 BOX 779-92       Correspondence, 1855 - 1904 .
                  Letters sent and received, arranged chronologically.

 BOX 792-800      Subject File.
                  Subject file arranged alphabetically by subject heading.

 BOX 801-4        Speech and Article File, 1853 - 1904 .
                  The speeches are arranged chronologically. There is one
                  titled article; the remaining articles are untitled and
                  undated.

 BOX 804-13       Financial Papers, 1859 - 1904 .
                  An account book and bills and receipts arranged
                  chronologically.

 BOX 813-20       Miscellany.

                  Biographical papers, notebooks, political lists,
                  scrapbooks, printed matter, and other miscellaneous items.

                  Grouped by type of material.

 BOX       Mary Desha Papers, 1892 - 1910 , n.d.
 821-27

 BOX 821          Correspondence, 1895 - 1909
                  Letters received, in chronological arrangement.

 BOX 821-27       Subject File, 1892 - 1910 .

                  Correspondence and other papers relating to the Columbian
                  Liberty Bell Committee.

                  In chronological arrangement.

 BOX 827          Miscellany.

                  Bills and receipts, biographical material, and other
                  miscellaneous papers.

                  Alphabetically arranged by type of material.

 BOX       Other Family Papers, 1779 - 1965 , n.d.
 828-50

           Papers of other members of the Breckinridge family, most of whom
           are represented by a small number of items.

 BOX       Addition, 1816 - 1980 , n.d.
 851-71

           Diaries, correspondence, biographical and genealogical material,
           certificates, financial papers, lists, military papers, writings,
           clippings and other printed matter and miscellaneous papers of
           Katherine Carson Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, John
           Cabell Breckinridge and other members of the Breckinridge family.

           Arranged alphabetically by name or by type of material.

 BOX OV    Oversize, 1930 - 1954 .
 1-2

           Oversize certificates, commissions, drawings, a diploma,
           discharges, a list, and photographs.

           Organized and described according to the series and folders from
           which the items were removed.

Container List

 Container
 Nos.      Contents

           BRECKINRIDGE FAMILY PAPERS, 1752 - 1904

 BOX 1              Apr. 7, 1752-Mar. 1, 1784
 BOX 2              Mar. 4, 1784-July 31, 1785
 BOX 3              Aug. 2, 1785-Mar. 12, 1787
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 BOX 446            Jan. 31-Feb. 18, 1893
 BOX 447            Feb. 19-28, 1893
 BOX 448            Mar. 1-8, 1893
 BOX 449            Mar. 9-18, 1893
 BOX 450            Mar. 20-Apr. 1, 1893
 BOX 451            Apr. 2-14, 1893
 BOX 452            Apr. 15-24, 1893
 BOX 453            Apr. 24-May 8, 1893
 BOX 454            May 9-20, 1893
 BOX 455            May 21-June 8, 1893
 BOX 456            June 9-28, 1893
 BOX 457            June 28-July 23, 1893
 BOX 458            July 23-Sept. 13, 1893
 BOX 459            Sept. 14-Oct. 8, 1893
 BOX 460            Oct. 9-Nov. 13, 1893
 BOX 461            Nov. 15-Dec. 11, 1893
 BOX 462            Dec. 12-31, 1893
 BOX 463            Jan. 1-18, 1894
 BOX 464            Jan. 19-28, 1894
 BOX 465            Jan. 19-Feb. 8, 1894
 BOX 466            Feb. 9-28, 1894
 BOX 467            Mar. 1-19, 1894
 BOX 468            Mar. 20-Apr. 4, 1894
 BOX 469            Apr. 5-16, 1894
 BOX 470            Apr. 17-23, 1894
 BOX 471            Apr. 24-May 8, 1894
 BOX 472            May 9-20, 1894
 BOX 473            May 21-June 12, 1894
 BOX 474            June 13-July 12, 1894
 BOX 475            July 13-Aug. 23, 1894
 BOX 476            Aug. 25-Sept. 20, 1894
 BOX 477            Sept. 21-Nov. 4, 1894
 BOX 478            Nov. 6-Dec. 15, 1894
 BOX 479            Dec. 16, 1894-Jan. 12, 1895
 BOX 480            Jan. 14-31, 1895
 BOX 481            Feb. 1-23, 1895
 BOX 482            Feb. 24-Aug. 5, 1895
 BOX 483            Aug. 6-Oct. 31, 1895
 BOX 484            Nov. 1, 1895-Jan. 3, 1896
 BOX 485            Jan. 4-Mar. 31, 1896
 BOX 486            Apr. 1-May 21, 1896
 BOX 487            May 22-July 24, 1896
 BOX 488            July 25-Aug. 24, 1896
 BOX 489            Aug. 25-Sept. 16, 1896
 BOX 490            Sept. 17-Nov. 17, 1896
 BOX 491            Nov. 18, 1896-Jan. 8, 1897
 BOX 492            Jan. 10-Mar. 17, 1897
 BOX 493            Mar. 18-May 1, 1897
 BOX 494            May 3-June 8, 1897
 BOX 495            June 9-Aug. 22, 1897
 BOX 496            Aug. 23-Nov. 8, 1897
 BOX 497            Nov. 9, 1897-Jan. 29, 1898
 BOX 498            Jan. 30-May 26, 1898
 BOX 499            May 27-Aug. 15, 1898
 BOX 500            Aug. 16-Nov. 20, 1898
 BOX 501            Nov. 21, 1898-Feb. 1, 1899
 BOX 502            Feb. 3-Apr. 30, 1899
 BOX 503            May 2-July 8, 1899
 BOX 504            July 9-Sept. 29, 1899
 BOX 505            Sept. 30, 1899-Jan. 6, 1900
 BOX 506            Jan. 7-Mar. 10, 1900
 BOX 507            Mar. 12-June 12, 1900
 BOX 508            June 13-Sept. 3, 1900
 BOX 509            Sept. 4-Nov. 9, 1900
 BOX 510            Nov. 10, 1900-Feb. 1, 1901
 BOX 511            Feb. 6-Aug. 10, 1901
 BOX 512            Aug. 12, 1901-Oct. 6, 1902
 BOX 513            Oct. 7, 1902-Jan. 4, 1904
 BOX 514            Jan. 6-Apr. 18, 1904
 BOX 515            Apr. 19-Nov. 15, 1904

           HENRY BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1909 - 1954 , n.d.

                    Diaries
 BOX 516                   June 11-13, 1913
                           Jan. 1914-Aug. 1915

                    Letterbooks
                           Apr. 30-Aug. 8, 1913
                           Aug. 8-Nov. 25, 1913
 BOX 517                   Nov. 25, 1913-Mar. 30, 1914
                           Jan. 28-Dec. 22, 1914
 BOX 518                   Mar. 30-Nov. 19, 1914
                           Nov. 19, 1914-July 3, 1915
 BOX 519                   Dec. 21, 1914-Feb. 4, 1916
                           July 6, 1915-Feb. 14, 1916

                    Correspondence
 BOX 520                   Nov. 1909-May 1915
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 521                   June 1915-Feb. 11, 1916
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 522                   Feb. 12, 1916-1923
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 523                   1924-Aug. 3, 1934
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 524                   Aug. 4, 1934-Dec. 1939
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 525                   1940-45, n.d.
                           (9 folders)

                    Speech and Article File
 BOX 526                   Speeches
                                  May 1913-Apr. 15, 1921
                                  (38 folders)
 BOX 527                          Apr. 21, 1921-Oct. 31, 1934
                                  (42 folders)
 BOX 528                          Nov. 2, 1934-Nov. 14, 1940
                                  (40 folders)
 BOX 529                          Dec. 16, 1940-Apr. 29, 1945, n.d.
                                  (17 folders)
                                  Index
                                  Introductory remarks
                                          Colby, Bainbridge
                                          Jusserand, Jules
                                          Post, Langdon
                                          Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr.
                                  Radio discussions
                                          June 9, 1940
                                          Dec. 16, 1940
                                          Undated
                           Articles
                                  "America! Beware a Nazi Greenland"
                                  "America, England and Japan"
                                  "The Cross of Avocourt"
                                  "En Garde! Here Come Swords"
                                  "Fencing"
                                  "Fiume"
                                  "Josephus Daniels"
 BOX 530                          "Let Her Fly!"
                                  Miscellaneous, 1940, n.d.
                                  "More Armchair Strategy"
                                  "Navy League"
                                  "The Navy League"
                                  "The Organized Militia"
                                  "Our Vice-President"
                                  Press releases, 1915-45
                                  (2 folders)
                                  "Princeton Men in Public Service"
                                  "The Problem of the National Defense"
                                  "Santo Domingo"
                                  "Second Front"
                                  "Secretary of War Weeks"
                                  "Should We Fight the Nazis to Defend the
                                  British Isles?"
                                  "Stassen"
                                  Tribute to Amb. Myron T. Herrick
                                  "War Schools"
                                  [Women in America]

                    Miscellany
 BOX 531                   Genealogy
                           General, 1913-54, n.d.
                           (4 folders)
 BOX 532                   Printed matter
                                  1935-40
                                  (7 folders)
 BOX 533-535                      1934 (scrapbooks)

           JOSEPH CABELL BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1844 - 1909 , n.d.

                    Diaries
 BOX 536                   1864-67
                           1868
                           1894
                           1897, 1899

                    Letterbooks
 BOX 537                   Mar. 3, 1882-Nov. 5, 1888
 BOX 538                   1885-88
 BOX 539                   Feb. 5-Dec. 7, 1889
 BOX 540                   Dec. 9, 1889-May 21, 1890
 BOX 541                   Dec. 15, 1889-Feb. 23, 1900
 BOX 542                   May 21-Nov. 15, 1890
 BOX 543                   Nov. 15, 1890-Mar. 2, 1892
 BOX 544                   Mar. 2, 1892-Feb. 4, 1893
 BOX 545                   Feb. 3-June 13, 1893
 BOX 546                   June 13, 1893-Feb. 23, 1894
 BOX 547                   Oct. 4, 1893-Mar. 19, 1894
 BOX 548                   Feb. 23, 1894-May 7, 1895
 BOX 549                   Mar. 20-Apr. 23, 1894
 BOX 550                   Apr. 24-July 14, 1894
 BOX 551                   July 14, 1894-Nov. 17, 1896
 BOX 552                   May 9, 1895-June 3, 1896
 BOX 553                   June 3-Nov. 27, 1896
 BOX 554                   Nov. 18, 1896-Apr. 17, 1900
 BOX 555                   Nov. 27, 1896-Nov. 16, 1897
 BOX 556                   Nov. 16, 1897-Apr. 20, 1898
 BOX 557                   Apr. 19-Oct. 18, 1898
 BOX 558                   Apr. 20, 1898-Apr. 17, 1899
 BOX 559                   Apr. 17-Dec. 15, 1899
 BOX 560                   Feb. 23-Oct. 25, 1900
 BOX 561                   Apr. 18-Oct. 15, 1900
 BOX 562                   Oct. 16, 1900-Feb. 8, 1901
 BOX 563                   Oct. 26, 1900-June 10, 1901
 BOX 564                   Feb. 8, 1901-Jan. 10, 1902
 BOX 565                   Apr. 27, 1901-Apr. 8, 1903
 BOX 566                   June 6, 1901-Jan. 15, 1902
 BOX 567                   Jan. 15-June 12, 1902
 BOX 568                   June 13-Sept. 20, 1902
 BOX 569                   Aug. 11, 1902-Apr. 11, 1903
 BOX 570                   Sept. 20, 1902-Feb. 24, 1903
 BOX 571                   Feb. 24-Apr. 12, 1903

                    Correspondence
 BOX 572                   1862-74
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 573                   1874-80
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 574                   1881-May 1884
                           (13 folders)
 BOX 575                   June 1884-June 1885
                           (13 folders)
 BOX 576                   July 1885-Dec. 1886
                           (18 folders)
 BOX 577                   Jan.-Aug. 1887
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 578                   Sept. 1887-Feb. 1888
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 579                   Mar.-Oct. 1888
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 580                   Nov. 1888-Mar. 1889
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 581                   Apr.-Oct. 1889
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 582                   Nov. 1889-May 1890
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 583                   June-Dec. 1890
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 584                   Jan.-Aug. 1891
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 585                   Sept. 1891-Feb. 1892
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 586                   Mar.-Oct. 1892
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 587                   Nov. 1892-Mar. 25, 1893
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 588                   Mar. 26-May 31, 1893
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 589                   June-Sept. 1893
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 590                   Oct.-Dec. 1893
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 591                   Jan.-Mar. 20, 1894
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 592                   Mar. 21-May 1894
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 593                   June-Oct. 1894
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 594                   Nov. 1894-Feb. 1895
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 595                   Feb.-May 1895
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 596                   May-Oct. 1895
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 597                   Nov. 1895-Apr. 1896
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 598                   May-Oct. 1896
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 599                   Nov. 1896-Feb. 1897
                           (4 folders)
 BOX 600                   Feb.-Apr. 1897
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 601                   Apr.-Sept. 1897
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 602                   Oct. 1897-Jan. 1898
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 603                   Feb.-Mar. 1898
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 604                   Apr.-May 1898
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 605                   May-Aug. 1898
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 606                   Sept.-Dec. 1898
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 607                   1898 (scrapbook on death of Joseph C.
                           Breckinridge, Jr.)
 BOX 608                   Jan.-Apr. 1899
                           (4 folders)
 BOX 609                   May-Aug. 1899
                           (4 folders)
 BOX 610                   Sept.-Dec. 1899
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 611                   1899 (scrapbook on inspection of military bases in
                           Cuba)
 BOX 612                   Jan.-Feb. 1900
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 613                   Mar.-Apr. 1900
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 614                   May-June 1900
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 615                   July-Sept. 1900
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 616                   Oct.-Nov. 1900
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 617                   Nov. 1900-Jan. 1901
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 618                   Jan.-Feb. 1901
                           (4 folders)
 BOX 619                   Mar. 1901
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 620                   Apr. 1901
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 621                   May-July 1901
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 622                   July-Dec. 1901
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 623                   Jan.-Apr. 1902
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 624                   Apr.-May 1902
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 625                   June-July 1902
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 626                   July-Oct. 1902
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 627                   Oct.-Dec. 1902
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 628                   Dec. 1902-Jan. 1903
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 629                   Feb.-Mar. 1903
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 630                   Mar.-June 1903
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 631                   July-Dec. 1903, 1904, 1909, n.d.
                           (7 folders)

                    Subject File
 BOX 632                   Adjutant general's office, 1889-1901
                           Military appointments and assignments, 1861-97
                           Military promotions of Joseph C. Breckinridge,
                           1861-1902
                           (3 folders)
 BOX 633                   Sons of the American Revolution
                                  1889-94
                                  (8 folders)
 BOX 634                          1895-99
                                  (6 folders)
 BOX 635                          1900-1901
                                  (4 folders)
 BOX 636                          1904, n.d.
                                  (4 folders)See also Container 850

                    Speech and Article File
 BOX 637                   Speeches
                                  "The Army"
                                  "An Army Indeed!"
                                  "The Conquerors at Concord"
                                  "Cowpens"
                                  "The Days We Celebrate"
                                  "Developed Reminiscence"
                                  "Duties Recast"
                                  "Duty as of Yore"
                                  "'F' Battery Incident"
                                  "Fleeting Days"
                                  "Historic Beads"
                                  "The Inauguration of the Constitution"
                                  "Jumel Mansion"
                                  "Life Facets"
                                  "Mark Time, 1894"
                                  "The Minute Man"
                                  "New England"
                                  "New Orleans and Our Continental Hall"
                                  "Old Duties Renewed"
                                  "Old Names in New Wars"
                                  "Our Day"
                                  "Our National Cause and Its Champions"
                                  "Our National Society"
                                  "Our Pilgrimage to Massachusetts"
                                  "Our Three-Fold Glory"
                                  "Rev. William Morton Postlethwaite"
                                  "Revolutionary Memorial"
                                  "Santiago"
                                  "Thanks"
                                  "Ticonderoga Day"
                                  "United by Liberty"
                                  "War Drift"
                                  "What Are We Here For?"
                                  "What Duty?"
                                  "What, No Army?"
                                  "Which War?"
                                  Feb. 21, 1888
                                  ca. 1890
                                  1890-91
                                  Jan. 8, 1894
                                  Apr. 30, 1894
                                  Feb. 22, 1895
                                  June 14, 1895
                                  July 4, 1895
                                  ca. 1895
                                  July 4, 1896
                                  Jan. 19, 1897
                                  Feb. 22, 1897
                                  Apr. 19, 1897
                                  Jan. 17, 1898
                                  Dec. 13, 1898
                                  Dec. 22, 1898
                                  June 19, 1899
 BOX 638                          ca. 1899
                                  Apr. 3, 1900
                                  Sept. 26, 1900
                                  Oct. 10, 1900
                                  Oct. 19, 1900
                                  Oct. 28, 1900
                                  June 14, 1901
                                  1901-3 (1 v.)
                                  Feb. 22, 1902
                                  1903
                                  (2 folders)
                                  Untitled, n.d.
                                  (3 folders)
                                  Fragments of speeches
                           Articles
                                  "Campaign and Battles of Trenton"
                                  "Crass Army Legislation"
                                  "The Propriety of College Military
                                  Instruction"
                                  "Service Apprentices"
                                  "Understand My Tactics or the Diamond
                                  Drill"
                                  1893
                                  Untitled, n.d.

                    Financial Papers
 BOX 639                   Account books, 1888-96, 1898
                           (2 folders)
                           Bills and receipts
                                  1844-80
                                  (6 folders)
 BOX 640-51                       1881-1902
                                  (58 folders)
 BOX 652                          1902-4, n.d.
                                  (5 folders)
                           Cancelled checks
                                  1874-89
                                  (6 folders)
 BOX 653-55                       1890-1902
                                  (14 folders)
 BOX 656                   Check stubs
                                  1877-89
                                  (6 folders)
 BOX 657-58                       1890-1903
                                  (11 folders)

                    Miscellany
 BOX 659-69                Scrapbooks, 1875-1903 (12 v.)
 BOX 670                   Biographical papers
                                  1858-74
                                  (7 folders)
 BOX 671                   Chronological file
                                  1875-85
                                  (8 folders)
 BOX 672                          1886-91
                                  (6 folders)
 BOX 673                          1892-96
                                  (7 folders)
 BOX 674                          1897-99
                                  (4 folders)
 BOX 675                          1899-1902
                                  (5 folders)
 BOX 676                          1902
                                  (6 folders)
 BOX 677                          1902-1908, n.d.
                                  (6 folders)
 BOX 678-79                Printed matter, 1881-1903, n.d.
                           (9 folders)

           MADELINE (McDOWELL) BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1895 - 1921 , n.d.

                    Correspondence
 BOX 680                   1895-July 1911
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 681                   Aug. 1911-Dec. 1913
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 682                   Jan.-Sept. 1914
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 683                   Oct. 1914-Jan. 1915
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 684                   Jan.-May 1915
                           (10 folders)
 BOX 685                   May-Aug. 1915
                           (10 folders)
 BOX 686                   Aug. 20-Dec. 31, 1915
                           (10 folders)
                           1915 undated
 BOX 687                   Jan.-Apr. 1916
                           (10 folders)
 BOX 688                   Apr.-Dec. 1916
                           (14 folders)
                           1916 undated
 BOX 689                   Jan. 1917-July 1919
                           (10 folders)
 BOX 690                   July-Nov. 1919
                           (12 folders)
 BOX 691                   Dec. 1919-Feb. 1920
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 692                   Mar. 1920-Dec. 1921, n.d.
                           (8 folders)

                    Subject File
 BOX 693                   Associated Charities
                           (2 folders)
                           Civic League
                                  Education
                                          1902-1921, n.d.
                                          (4 folders)
 BOX 694                                  Undated
                                          (2 folders)
                                  Juvenile Court
                                  Miscellany, 1901-1920
 BOX 695                          1905-1918, n.d.
                                  (5 folders)
 BOX 696                          Index cards
 BOX 697                   Federation of Women's Clubs, 1906-1921, n.d.
                           (4 folders)
                           Salvation Army
                           (2 folders)

 BOX 698
                           (4 folders)
                           Tuberculosis
                                  1904-1914
                                  (5 folders)
 BOX 699                          1914-18
                                  (6 folders)
                                  1919-20, n.d.
                                  (4 folders)
 BOX 700                   Women's suffrage
                                  1901-1910
                                  (2 folders)
 BOX 701                          1911-14
                                  (7 folders)
 BOX 702                          1914-15
                                  (5 folders)
 BOX 703                          1915-18
                                  (7 folders)
 BOX 704                          1918-20
                                  (8 folders)
 BOX 705                          1920-21
                                  Undated
                                  (4 folders)

 BOX 706
                                  (4 folders)

                    Speech and Article File
                           Speeches
                                  "An Appeal to the Press Here Assembled"
                                  "Illiteracy"
                                  "The Juvenile Court"
                                  "A Model School"
                                  "A New Hope"
                                  "The Prospect for Woman Suffrage in the
                                  South"
                                  "The Relation of the Public Schools to
                                  Kentucky's Commercial Development"
                                  "School Suffrage for Kentucky's Women"
                                  "Shall Men Vote?"
                                  "A State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis"
 BOX 707                          "Women and the Schools"
                                  1914, 1916, July 1917
                                  (2 folders)
                                  Untitled, n.d.
                                  Notes for speeches
                           Articles
                                  "Admittance of Pay Patients at Sanatorium
                                  Best Means of Serving Greatest Number"
                                  "Allotments to Army Explained"
                                  "Another Reason for Granting School
                                  Suffrage to Kentucky Women"
                                  "Are We the Gates of Hell and a Field for
                                  Foreign Missions?"
                                  "California Supreme Court Decision on
                                  Salvation Army Will Be Produced"
                                  "Can The county of Fayette and the City of
                                  Lexington Support a Tuberculosis
                                  Sanatorium?"
                                  "The Case of the Salvation Army"
                                  "Charitable Work Is Impossible Without
                                  Overhead Expense"
                                  "Children's Playgrounds in San Francisco"
                                  "City Official To Control Charity Would
                                  Mean Waste of Salary"
                                  "Civic Improvement in a Neighboring City"
                                  "Coming of Peace Would be Helped by Equal
                                  Suffrage"
                                  "Constructive Philanthropy Versus Small
                                  Change Policy"
                                  "The Deserting or Intermittent Husband"
                                  "Detention Home for Boys"
                                  "Direct vs. Indirect Influence in Kentucky"
                                  "Education and Kentucky's Development"
                                  "Education Work Undertaken by Kentucky
                                  Federation of Women's Clubs"
                                  "Expense of Running the Playground"
                                  "Golden Gate Park"
                                  "A Heretic of the Last Century"
                                  "History of Passage of School Suffrage Law"
                                  "The Immorality of Hotels"
                                  "In Answer to Envoy League"
                                  "An Incident"
                                  "Independent Voter Is for Woman Suffrage"
                                  "Influenza Hits Families Having Tubercular
                                  Record"
                                  "Kentucky, Forty-Seventh!"
                                  "Kentucky Chapter Woman Suffrage History"
                                  "The Making of an American by
                                  Naturalization and Education"
                                  "Men's Sense of Justice"
                                  "The Model School"
                                  "A Mother's Sphere"
                                  "Mrs. Grace W. Trout To Recount Victory in
                                  State of Illinois"
                                  "Not so Bad As That"
                                  "On the Passing of the Home"
                                  "Other Bodies Doing Work Salvation Army
                                  Announced It Would Perform in Lexington"
                                  "Our Liberties Threatened"
                                  "Overhead Charges of Salvation Army
                                  Contrasted With Actual Relief Done"
                                  "Plan Fight on Money to Army"
                                  "Practical Training for Citizenship in our
                                  Common Schools"
                                  "Propaganda Through Literature"
                                  "Public Schools and Southern Development"
                                  "Questions Are Put Up to Salvation Army
                                  Officers"
                                  "Reasons for Granting School Suffrage to
                                  Kentucky Women"
 BOX 708                          "Recollections of Henry Clay"
                                  "The Regeneration of Rural New England"
                                  "The Right of the Young to Chaperonage and
                                  a Good Time"
                                  "Rural Social Settlement in the Mountains
                                  of Kentucky"
                                  "Salvation Army"
                                  "Salvation Army Is After Money"
                                  "Salvation Army Officer Declines To Answer
                                  Question Through Press"
                                  "Salvation Army Captain Testifies He Hasn't
                                  Time To Investigate"
                                  "Shall Fayette Close the Present
                                  Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Start in on a
                                  Plan of a Joint County Plan for
                                  Establishing a Sanatorium"
                                  "Should the Law be Abrogated for the
                                  Benefit of the Salvation Army?"
                                  "Should Women Have the School Suffrage, or
                                  Sit Upon School Boards?"
                                  "The Soldiers of Salvation Army As
                                  Exemplified by Some Recruited Here"
                                  "Some Reasons for Granting Suffrage to
                                  Women"
                                  "Speakers and Money Needed in Missouri"
                                  "Street Skating; a Substitute Suggested"
                                  "Suffrage Aftermaths"
                                  "A Suggestion for the Colored Parks of
                                  City"
                                  "The TB Sanatorium and the Roads"
                                  "Treaties With 20 Countries"
                                  "Waiting List for TB Sanatorium"
                                  "Wanted an Automobile"
                                  "Was School Suffrage for Women a Failure in
                                  Lexington?"
                                  "What Kentucky Women Are Doing for the
                                  State"
                                  "What's Sauce for the Goose Is Sauce for
                                  the Gander"
                                  "Why Money Is Needed for Woodland Park"
                                  "Why Private Funds?"
                                  "The Woman's Cause in Kentucky"
                                  "Woman's Suffrage"
                                  "The Women of Kentucky vs. the Honorable
                                  Harry G. Meyers of Covington, Now of the
                                  Legislature"
                                  "World Politics"
                                  Reply to editorial in Frankfort News, 1900
                                  Oct. 12, 1914
                                  Untitled, n.d.
                                  (2 folders)

                    Miscellany
 BOX 709                   Bills and receipts
                                  1898-1918
                                  (3 folders)
 BOX 710                          1918-20, n.d.
                                  (5 folders)
 BOX 711                   Biographical material
                           Lists, notes
                           (2 folders)
                           1908, n.d.
                           Printed matter

           ROBERT JEFFERSON BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1807 - 1871 , n.d.

 BOX 712            Diaries, 1836-37

                    Correspondence, 1821-69
                           1821, 1825-27, 1829
                           1830-69, n.d.
                           (16 folders)
 BOX 713                   Undated
                           (8 folders)

                    Subject File
 BOX 714                   Annual returns of Kentucky Militia
                           Defense of Robert J. Breckinridge against Robert
                           Wickliffe
                           (2 folders)
                           Legal separation
                           Minutes of the Presbytery
                           Shelby estate
                           Slaves

                    Speech, Article, and Book File
 BOX 715                   Speeches
                                  "The Calling of the Church of Christ"
                                  "Emancipation With Colonization"
                                  "The Great Deliverance and the New Career"
                                  "Presbyterian Government, Not a Hierarchy
                                  but a Commonwealth"
                                  "Presbyterian Ordination"
                                  "Presbyterian Ordination, Not a Charm But
                                  an Act of Government"
                                  "The Rule of Faith"
                                  "What Are the Advantages of Domestic
                                  Slavery?"
                                  Nov. 13, 1831
                                  Oct. 12, 1840
                                  Nov. 9, 1840
                                  Mar. 14, 1848
                                  1849
                                  June 25, 1850
                                  July 4, 1857
                                  Undated
                                  (2 folders)
                                  Introductory remarks, notes
                                  Review of speech by Robert J. Breckinridge
                           Lectures
                                  1835
 BOX 716                          1840
                                  May 3, 1840
                                  ca. 1850, 1852
                                  1853-69, n.d.
                                  (12 folders)
                           Sermons
                                  1832
                                  1833
 BOX 717                          1834-55, n.d., and untitled
                                  (21 folders)
                           Articles
                                  "The Acts of the Apostles"
                                  "Advantages of a Republican Form of
                                  Government"
                                  "The American Bible Society's Committee on
                                  Versions and Its New Bible"
                                  "The Anti-Christian Spirit of the Papal
                                  Church"
                                  "An Autumn Night"
                                  "A Card"
                                  "The Causes and Results of the American
                                  Revolution"
                                  "The Christian Pastor"
                                  (2 folders)
 BOX 718                          "The Civil War: Its Nature and End"
                                  "Essays, Practical and Speculative"
                                  "Exposition of Psalm 1.5"
                                  "God Is in History"
                                  "Hughes-iana"
                                  "Improvement of the Human Mind"
                                  "An Inquiry Into the Original Condition of
                                  Mankind"
                                  "Latin Exegesis"
                                  "Moral Philosophy"
                                  "The Necessity of Government and Danger of
                                  Precipitate Changes"
                                  "Old Age"
                                  "On Dignity of Character"
                                  "One of the Possible Futures of the United
                                  States"
                                  "An Oration for Liberty"
                                  "Origin of Governments and Their Proper
                                  Claim to Authority and Respect"
                                  "Our Country"
                                  "The Peace Panic--Its Authors and Objects"
                                  "Popery in the Island of St. Michael"
                                  "Prelatical Jesuitism"
                                  "Presbyterian Government"
                                  "The Province of Reason in Judging of
                                  Religion"
                                  "Religious Excitement in the City of
                                  Baltimore"
                                  "The Secession Conspiracy in Kentucky and
                                  Its Overthrow; With the Relations of Both
                                  to the General Revolt"
 BOX 719                          "Sketch of the Life and Character of
                                  Washington"
                                  "The Spread of Popery"
                                  "State of the French Papal Clergy"
                                  "Struggles in Kentucky During Three Years
                                  Succeeding the First Overthrow of the
                                  Secession Conspiracy in 1861"
                                  "Suggestions in Regard to the Board of
                                  Publication of the Presbyterian"
                                  "This Is the Law of the House"
                                  "To the Citizens of Baltimore"
                                  1834-49
                                  (3 folders)
                                  Untitled, n.d.
                                  (7 folders)
 BOX 720                   Books
                                  Breckinridge's Works
                                  The Knowledge of God
                                  (5 folders)
 BOX 721-23                       The Knowledge of God
                                  (37 folders)
 BOX 724-29                       Bound speeches and articles (23 vols.)

                    Miscellany
 BOX 730                   Bible extracts
                           Bills and receipts
                                  1807, 1815-37
                                  (9 folders)
 BOX 731-34                       1838-59
                                  (26 folders)
 BOX 735                          1860-69, n.d.
                                  (4 folders)
                           Commonplace book, 1836
                           Deeds, indentures, summonses
                           Farm inventories
                           Foreign travels, 1832, 1836-37
                           (2 folders)
 BOX 736                   Genealogy
                           Hymn, "Kentucky's Hymn to Maine"
                           Legal case
                           Library books and memoranda on various subjects
                           Lists, notes, report cards, resolutions, subpoenas

                           (2 folders)
                           Memorandum book, ca. 1819-1821
                           Newspaper clippings
                           Notebook on religious topics
                           Notebooks
                                  1820-36
 BOX 737                          1836-37, 1847
                                  (2 folders)
                           Petitions
                           Poems
                           Printed matter
                                  1824-58
                                  (3 folders)
 BOX 738                          ca. 1850-1920, n.d.
                                  (3 folders)
                           Recipes
                           Reports
                           Scrapbooks, 1860-63
                           Servants' wages
                           Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church at
                           Danville, Ky., catalogs, 1853-61
                           Will

           SOPHONISBA P. BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1873 - 1949 , n.d.

                    Correspondence
 BOX 739 REEL 1            1880-91
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 740 REEL 2            1892-1911
                           (12 folders)
 BOX 741 REEL 2-3          1912-18
                           (14 folders)
 BOX 742 REEL 3-4          1919-Oct. 1927
                           (14 folders)
 BOX 743 REEL 4-5          Nov. 1927-1929
                           (17 folders)
 BOX 744 REEL 5            1930-Jan. 1932
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 745 REEL 6            Feb.-May 1932
                           (13 folders)
 BOX 746 REEL 7            June-Nov. 19, 1932
                           (13 folders)
 BOX 747 REEL 7-8          Nov. 20, 1932-Mar. 1933
                           (14 folders)
 BOX 748 REEL 9-10         Apr.-July 1933
                           (12 folders)
 BOX 749 REEL 10           Aug.-Dec. 1933
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 750 REEL 11           Jan.-Apr. 8, 1934
                           (10 folders)
 BOX 751 REEL 11-12        Apr. 9-June 1934
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 752 REEL 12-13        July-Nov. 10, 1934
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 753 REEL 13-14        Nov. 11, 1934-Feb. 7, 1935
                           (10 folders)
 BOX 754 REEL 14-15        Feb. 8-May 24, 1935
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 755 REEL 15-16        May 25-Sept. 1935
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 756 REEL 16-17        Oct.-Dec. 1935
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 757 REEL 17-18        Jan.-Apr. 15, 1936
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 758 REEL 18-19        Apr. 16-Aug. 1936
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 759 REEL 19           Sept.-Dec. 1936
                           (7 folders)
                           1936 undated
 BOX 760 REEL 19-20        Jan.-Apr. 1937
                           (8 folders)
 BOX 761 REEL 21           May-Sept. 1937
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 762 REEL 21-22        Oct.-Dec. 1937
                           (5 folders)
                           1937 undated
                           Jan.-Mar. 1938
                           (4 folders)
 BOX 763 REEL 22-23        Apr.-Oct. 1938
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 764 REEL 23-24        Nov. 1938-June 1939
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 765 REEL 24-25        July-Dec. 1939
                           (9 folders)
 BOX 766 REEL 25-26        Jan.-July 1940
                           (10 folders)
 BOX 767 REEL 26-27        Aug. 1940-Mar. 1941
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 768 REEL 27-28        Apr. 1941-Mar. 1942
                           (12 folders)
 BOX 769 REEL 28-29        Apr. 1942-Mar. 1943
                           (12 folders)
 BOX 770 REEL 29-30        Apr. 1943-Apr. 1944
                           (13 folders)
 BOX 771 REEL 30-31        May 1944-May 1946
                           (13 folders)
 BOX 772 REEL 31-32        June 1946-July 1948, n.d.
                           (10 folders)
 BOX 773 REEL 32-33        Letters to Edith Abbott on death of Sophonisba P.
                           Breckinridge, 1948-49
                           (4 folders)

                    Speech and Article File
                           A-N
                           (3 folders)
 BOX 774 REEL 33           P-W
                           (3 folders)
                           1929-40, n.d.

                    Miscellany
                           Biographical notes on Robert J. Breckinridge
 BOX 775 REEL 34           Chronological file
                                  1873-Nov.1933
                                  (8 folders)
 BOX 776 REEL 34-35               Dec. 1933-1935
                                  (9 folders)
 BOX 777 REEL 36                  1936-49
                                  (5 folders)
 BOX 778 REEL 36-37               Undated
                           Speeches and articles by and about various members
                           of the Breckinridge family collected by Sophonisba
                           P. Breckinridge
                           (3 folders)

           WILLIAM C. P. BRECKINRIDGE PAPERS, 1851 - 1904 , n.d.

 BOX 779            Journal, 1884

                    Letterbook, 1862-64

                    Correspondence
                           1855-64
                           (4 folders)
 BOX 780                   1865-83
                           (14 folders)
 BOX 781                   Jan.-Mar. 1884
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 782                   Apr. 1884-1887
                           (11 folders)
 BOX 783                   1888-91
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 784                   Jan.-Oct. 1892
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 785                   Nov. 1892-Jan. 13, 1893
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 786                   Jan. 14-July 1893
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 787                   Aug.-Sept. 1893
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 788                   Oct. 1893-Jan. 22, 1894
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 789                   Jan. 23-Feb. 10, 1894
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 790                   Feb. 21-Apr. 1894
                           (7 folders)
 BOX 791                   May 1894-1898
                           (14 folders)
 BOX 792                   1899-1904, n.d.
                           (6 folders)

                    Subject File
                           Abraham Buford, papers of
                           Breckinridge Monument Association
                           Democratic Committee of the 7th Congressional
                           District, petitions to
                           Education
 BOX 793                   Fayette County, Ky., convention, 1866
                           Genealogy
                           Legal case, Pollard v. Breckinridge
                           (2 folders)
                           Legal cases
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 794-99                Legal cases
                           (51 folders)
 BOX 800                   Legal cases, account books
                           (2 folders)
                           Petitions
                           Watauga Land Co.

                    Speech and Article File
 BOX 801                   Speeches
                                  1853-56
                                  May 16, 1868
                                  June 11, 1872
                                  Jan. 16, 1874
                                  Nov. 1, 1875
                                  June 12, 1878
                                  Mar. 16, 1879
                                  May 26, 1879
                                  Oct. 2, 1879
                                  Nov. 2, 1882
                                  Mar. 3, 1886
                                  Apr. 2, 1886
                                  May 19, 1887
                                  Aug. 27, 1887
                                  1887
                                  June 28, 1888
                                  July 7, 1888
                                  July 16, 1888
                                  Jan. 8, 1889
                                  July 1, 1890
                                  Aug. 4, 1890
                                  July 29, 1891
                                  Aug. 22, 1891
                                  Aug. 27, 1894
                                  May 8, 1904
                                  Published speeches, 1868-91
 BOX 802                          Notes for League of Nations speech, n.d.
                                  Undated
                                  (4 folders)

 BOX 803
                                  (4 folders)

 BOX 804
                                  (2 folders)
                           Articles
                                  "Notes on the Red Cross in America"
                                  Untitled, n.d.

                    Financial Papers
                           Account book, 1886-96
                           Bills and receipts
                                  1859-66
                                  (3 folders)
 BOX 805-12                       1867-97
                                  (55 folders)
 BOX 813                          1898-1904, n.d.
                                  (4 folders)

                    Miscellany
                           Autograph book
                           Biographical papers
                           (2 folders)
                           Calling cards, tickets, and invitations
                           (1 folder)

 BOX 814
                           (1 folder)
                           Certificates
                           Indentures, 1854-96
                           Lists, menus, notes
                           Notebooks
                           (1 folder)

 BOX 815
                           (2 folders)
                           Obituary, 1904
                           Political lists
                           (2 folders)

 BOX 816
                           (2 folders)
                           School notes, 1851
                           Scrapbooks
                                  1860
                                  (2 folders)
                                  1880-87
                                  (2 folders)
 BOX 817                          1863-94, n.d.
                                  (4 folders)
 BOX 818-20                Printed matter
                           (11 folders)

           MARY DESHA PAPERS, 1892 - 1910 , n.d.

 BOX 821            Correspondence, 1895-1909

                    Subject file
                           Columbian Liberty Bell Committee, 1892-98
                           (6 folders)
 BOX 822-26                Daughters of the American Revolution
                                  1894-1906
                                  (31 folders)
 BOX 827                          1906-1910
                                  (7 folders)

                    Miscellany
                           Bills and receipts
                           Biographical material
                           Genealogy
                           1908, 1910, n.d.

           OTHER FAMILY PAPERS, 1779 - 1965 , n.d.

 BOX 828            Breckinridge, Alexander (1828-1909)
                    Breckinridge, Ann Sophonisba Preston
                    (5 folders)
                    Breckinridge, Cabell
 BOX 829            Breckinridge, Charles H.
                    (1 folder)

 BOX 830
                    (1 folder)
                    Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes (1846-1932)
                    Breckinridge, Desha (1867-1935)
                           Correspondence
                                  1891-97
                                  (12 folders)
 BOX 831                          1897-98
                                  (11 folders)
 BOX 832                          1898-99
                                  (12 folders)
 BOX 833                          1899-1900
                                  (13 folders)
 BOX 834                          1900-1932, n.d.
                                  (7 folders)
                           Miscellany
                                  Article, n.d.
                                  Bills and receipts
                                          1885-98
                                          (6 folders)
 BOX 835                                  1899-1900, n.d.
                                          (2 folders)
                                  Certificates, cards
                                  Debtors lists
                                  Editorials
                                  Indentures
                                  Last will and testament
                                  Legal papers
                                  Lists, notes
                                  Military papers
                                  Obituary
                                  Printed matter
                                  (3 folders)
 BOX 836            Breckinridge, Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley
                    Breckinridge, H. M.
                    Breckinridge, Henry
                    Breckinridge, Issa
                           Correspondence
                                  1856-86
                                  (7 folders)
 BOX 837                          1886-89
                                  (7 folders)
 BOX 838                          1890-92, n.d.
                                  (5 folders)
                    Breckinridge, James (1763-1833)
 BOX 839            Breckinridge, James Carson
                    Breckinridge, James M.
                    Breckinridge, John (1760-1806)
                    (6 folders)

 BOX 840
                    (5 folders)
 BOX 841            Breckinridge, John (1797-1841)
                    (5 folders)
                    Breckinridge, John B.
                    (2 folders)
 BOX 842            Breckinridge, John Cabell (1821-1875)
                    Breckinridge, John R.
                    (2 folders)
                    Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell (1788-1823)
                    Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell, Jr. (1872-1898)
 BOX 843            Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell, Jr. (1872-1878), logbook,
                    1890
                    Breckinridge, Julia Desha
                    Breckinridge, Katherine Carson
                    (2 folders)
                    Breckinridge, Louise D.
                    (2 folders)
 BOX 844            Breckinridge, Margaret (1802-1838) (Mrs. John
                    Breckinridge)
                    Breckinridge, Margaret
                    Breckinridge, Marie
                    Breckinridge, Mary (1881-1965)
                    (4 folders)
                    Breckinridge, Mary Clay
                    Breckinridge, Mary Curry
                    Breckinridge, Mary Curry Desha
                    (2 folders)

 BOX 845
                    (8 folders)
 BOX 846            Breckinridge, Mary H.
                    Breckinridge, Mary Hopkins Cabell
                    Breckinridge, Mary Smith
                    Breckinridge, Owen
                    Breckinridge, Polly C.
                    Breckinridge, Preston
                    Breckinridge, R. I.
                    Breckinridge, Robert
                    Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson, Jr.
                    Breckinridge, Sally Campbell
                    Breckinridge, Samuel M.
                    Breckinridge, Scott Dudley (1882-1941)
                    Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston (daughter of Robert
                    Jefferson Breckinridge)
                    Breckinridge, Virginia Shelby (d. 1859)
                    Breckinridge, William Lewis (1803-1876)
                    Bullock, Nannette McDowell
                    Cabell, Joseph
 BOX 847            Cabell, N. Francis
                    Chalkley, Ella
                    Curry, James R.
                    Desha, Frances
                    Desha, Issac B.
                    Desha, John R.
                    Desha, Joseph
                    (2 folders)
                    Desha, Lucius
                    Desha, Marcus B.
                    Desha, Margaret
                    Desha, Mary (Mollie)
                    (3 folders)
 BOX 848            Desha, Marry Curry
                    Desha, Peggy
                    Entwisle, John Joseph
                    Grayson, John Breckinridge
                    Grayson, Robert H.
                    McDowell, Henry C.
                    McDowell, James
                    McDowell, Magdalene H.
                    (6 folders)
 BOX 849            McDowell, Mary K.
                    McDowell, Robinson A.
                    Maltby, Mary Breckinridge
                    Morrison, Mary Breckinridge
                    Pickett, Joseph Desha
                    Porter, Latitia
                    Porter, Peter B.
                    Preston, Francis
                    Preston, John
                    Preston, Maria
                    Preston, Sarah B.
                    Preston family
                           Genealogy
                           Selden v. Preston
                           Miscellany
                    Shelby, Isaac
                    Shelby, Susan Preston
                    Shelby, Thomas H.
                    Shelby, Virginia
                    Steele, Lila
                    Cash book, 1835-39
                    Miscellaneous, n.d.
 BOX 850            Heraldic drawings prepared for the Sons of American
                    Revolution, 1902 See Container OV-1 and See also Container
                    636

           ADDITION, 1816 - 1980 , n.d.

 BOX 851            Family members
                           Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes
                                  Correspondence
                                          General
                                                 Apr. 1865-Sept. 1896
                                                 (9 folders)
 BOX 852                                         1896-1930, n.d.
                                                 (4 folders)
                                          Official, 1894-98, 1908, n.d.
                                          (2 folders)
                                  Miscellany
                                          Calling cards
 BOX 853                                  Menus
                                          Passports
                                          Printed matter
                                          (3 folders)

 BOX 854
                                          (4 folders)

 BOX 855
                                          (4 folders)

 BOX 856
                                          (5 folders)

 BOX 857
                                          (4 folders)

 BOX 858
                                          (4 folders)

 BOX 859
                                          (3 folders)
                                          Speeches, 1884-1913, n.d.
                           Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes, Jr., 1904
                           Breckinridge, Dorothy Thomson, 1920-72, n.d.
                           (2 folders)
                           Breckinridge, Florence, 1897
                           Breckinridge, James Carson (1877-1942), 1884-95,
                           n.d.
                           (5 folders)
                           Breckinridge, John B., 1974-75
                           Breckinridge, John Cabell (1821-75)
                                  Diaries, Aug. 1866-Mar. 1868
                                  Certificates, 1906-09 See Oversize
                                  Commissions, 1899-1902 See Oversize
                                  Correspondence
                                          1849-69
 BOX 860                                  1870-75, n.d.
                                          (4 folders)
                                  Diploma, 1896 See Oversize
                                  Discharges, 1897-99 See Oversize
                                  Financial papers
                                          1841-49
                                          (2 folders)
 BOX 861                                  1850-75, n.d.
                                          (2 folders)
                                  Masonic list (handwritten), 1912 See
                                  Oversize
                                  Photographs, 1902 See Oversize
                                  Typescripts, printed matter
                           Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell (1788-1823),
                           letterbook, 1821-23
                           Breckinridge, Katherine Carson
                                  Diaries, 1914
                                  Correspondence
                                          Aug. 1865-May 1876
                                          (3 folders)
 BOX 862                                  June 1876-Dec. 1895
                                          (7 folders)
 BOX 863                                  1896-97
                                          (7 folders)
 BOX 864                                  1898-1918, n.d.
                                          (4 folders)
                                  Miscellany
                                  (2 folders)
                           Breckinridge, Mary Burch (1826-1907), 1868, 1870
                           Breckinridge, Mary Carson (1881-1965), 1895-1914,
                           n.d.
                           Breckinridge, Susanna Preston Lees (1883-1972),
                           1896-97, n.d.
                           Bullock, Cabell Breckinridge (1840-1932),
                           1896-1930, n.d.
                           Carson, Caroline C., 1826-27
 BOX 865                   Carson, Catharine Waller
                                  Diaries, 1869-74
                                  Correspondence, 1835-87
                                  (6 folders)
                                  Genealogical records
 BOX 866                          Printed matter
                           Carson, James Green (1815-63)
                                  Biographical material
                                  Business papers
                                  Correspondence, 1836-63. n.d.
                           Carson, James Green, Jr.
                                  Correspondence, 1868-83
                                  (2 folders)
                                  School report
                           Carson, Joseph, 1852-53
                           Carson, William
                                  Correspondence, 1887
                                  Writings, n.d.
                           Green, William H., 1816
                           Hunt, Josephine, 1932
 BOX 867                   Lees, Susanna Preston, 1894-97, n.d.
                           (3 folders)
                           Maltby, Mary Breckinridge (1883-1974), 1917
                           Railey, Matilda S., 1829
                           Waller, Catharine, 1840-85,n.d.
                           (2 folders)
                           Waller, William S.
                                  Correspondence, 1843-57
                                  Legal papers
 BOX 868            Miscellanous
                           Clippings
                           (5 folders)
 BOX 869                   Genealogy, 1980
                           General
                           (2 folders)
                           Photographs
                           Printed matter
                           (5 folders)

 BOX 870
                           (2 folders)
 BOX 871                   Scrapbooks, 1894-96, n.d.
                           (4 volumes)

           OVERSIZE, 1899 - 1912

 BOX OV 1           Other family papers
                           Heraldic drawings prepared for the Sons of
                           American Revolution, 1902 (Container 850)
 BOX OV 2           Addition
                           Family members
                                  Breckinridge, John Cabell
                                          Certificates, 1906-1909 (Container
                                          859)
                                          Commissions, 1899-1902 (Container
                                          859)
                                          Diploma, 1896 (Container 860)
                                          Discharges, 1897-1899 (Container
                                          860)
                                          Masonic list (handwritten), 1912
                                          (Container 861)
                                          Photographs, 1902 (Container 861)

Appendix

Chronological List of the Names of Major Family Members, Their Spouses, and
Children

Papers of the individuals listed here make up the greater part of the
Breckinridge Family Papers. Names of children who are known not to have
survived to adulthood are omitted.

 Major Family Members and Spouses                     Children
 John Breckinridge (1760-1806)

 m. Mary Hopkins Cabell (1788-1823)       Grayson Porter Breckinridge
                                          (1786-1831)
                                          Joseph Cabell Breckinridge
                                          (1769-1858)
                                          John Breckinridge (1788-1823)
                                          Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
                                          (1800-1871)
                                          William Lewis Breckinridge
                                          (1803-1876)
 Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
 (1760-1806)

 m. (1) Ann Sophonisba Preston (d. 1844)  Mary Cabell (Breckinridge)
                                          Warfield (b. 1828)
                                          Sally Campbell (Breckinridge)
                                          Morrison (1832-1865)
                                          Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
                                          (b. 1834)
                                          Marie L. Preston (Breckinridge)
                                          Handy (b. 1836)
                                          William Campbell Preston
                                          Breckinridge (1837-1904)
                                          Sophonisba Preston
                                          (Breckinridge) Steele (b. 1839)
                                          Joseph Cabell Breckinridge
                                          (1842-1920)

 (2) Virginia (Hart) Shelby (d. 1859)     John Robert Breckinridge (b.
                                          1850)
 (3) Margaret (Faulkner) White            ---

 John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875)
 [son] of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge
 (1788-1823)
 m. Mary Cyrene Burch                     Joseph Cabell Breckinridge
                                          Clifton Rodes Breckinridge
                                          (1846-1932)
                                          Frances (Breckinridge) Steel
                                          John W. "Owen" Breckinridge
                                          Mary (Breckinridge) Maltby
 William Campbell Preston Breckinridge
 (1837-1904)
 m. (1) Lucretia Hart Clay (d. 1860)      ---

 (2) Issa Desha (1843-1892)               Ella Desha (Breckinridge)
                                          Chalkley (b. 1862)
                                          Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
                                          (1866-1948)
                                          Desha Breckinridge (1867-1935)
                                          Campbell Breckinridge
                                          Issa Desha Breckinridge
                                          Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
                                          Mary Curry Breckinridge
 (3) Louis R. Scott Wing                  ---
 Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1842-1920)
 m. Louis Ludlow Dudley (1849-ca. 1911)   Mary Dudley (Breckinridge) Hines
                                          Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
                                          Joseph Cabell Breckinridge
                                          Louisa Dudley Breckinridge
                                          Ethelbert L. Dudley Breckinridge
                                          Mabel Warfield Breckinridge
                                          Lucian Scott Breckinridge
                                          Lucy Hayes Breckinridge
                                          Scott Dudley Breckinridge
                                          (1882-1941)
                                          Charles H. P. Breckinridge
                                          Henry [Skillman] Breckinridge
                                          (1886-1960)
                                          Margaret Scott S. Breckinridge
                                          John Preston Breckinridge

 Mary Desha (1850-1911) [sister-in-law of
 William Campbell Preston Breckinridge
 (1837-1904)]
 Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
 (1866-1948)

 Madeline (McDowell) Breckinridge
 (1872-1920)
 m. Desha Breckinridge (1867-1935)

 Henry [Skillman] Breckinridge
 (1886-1960)
 m. (1) Ruth B. Woodman                   Elizabeth Foster Breckinridge
                                          Louis Dudley Breckinridge
 (2) Aida de Acosta Root                  --
 (3) Margaret Lucy Smith                  Madeline Houston Breckinridge
Hereinafter cited as Henry Breckinridge ("Skillman" appears to have been
dropped after his early years).
            
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