Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Henry L. Dawes papers, 1833-1933

Title

• Henry L. Dawes papers, 1833-1933

Summary

• Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, reports, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers primarily concerning Dawes's service as U.S. senator and representative, member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and chairman of the U.S. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. Includes material pertaining to American Indian affairs; congressman Oakes Ames; the George Chorpenning claim case; civil service; Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C.; political campaigns and conventions; the railroad construction company Credit Mobilier of America; Reconstruction; tariff; and the U.S. Weather Bureau. Family papers includes diaries and correspondence of Dawes; his wife, Electa Allen Sanderson Dawes; and daughter, Anna Laurens Dawes. Also includes an incomplete biography of Henry L. Dawes by Anna Laurens Dawes.
• Correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Charles Allen, Oakes Ames, James Gillespie Blaine, Montgomery Blair, Cornelius Newton Bliss, Samuel Bowles, Selwyn Zadock Bowman, Calvin Clifford Chaffee, William Claflin, Schuyler Colfax, Cushman Kellogg Davis, Edward Everett, Cyrus W. Field, James A. Garfield, Edward Everett Hale, Sr., Joseph R. Hawley, George Frisbie Hoar, Mark Hopkins, Henry Oscar Houghton, L.Q.C. Lamar, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Davis Long, George Brinton McClellan, S.S. McClure, Nelson Appleton Miles, John Tyler Morgan, T.J. Morgan, Justin S. Morrill, John W. Noble, Orville Hitchcock Platt, William P. Porter, Theodore Roosevelt, Philip Henry Sheridan, John C. Spooner, Charles Sumner, Ida M. Tarbell, Lyman C. Thayer, Edward R. Tinker, E.B. Washburne, and Herbert Welsh.
• The autograph correspondence collection includes letters to Henry L. Dawes and Anna Laurens Dawes from Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, Susan B. Anthony, George Ashmun, Alexander Graham Bell, Maude Ballington Booth, Benjamin F. Butler, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Richard Henry Dana, Grace H. Dodge, Theodore F. Dwight, Samuel A. Eliot, Alice C. Fletcher, John Watson Foster, Richard Watson Gilder, Sir Ben Greet, Edward Everett Hale, Sr., George Frisbie Hoar, O.O. Howard, Julia Ward Howe, F.D. Huntington, Sarah Orne Jewett, Frank O. Lowden, S.S. McClure, Simon Newcomb, Alice Freeman Palmer, Gifford Pinchot, Ella Farman Pratt, Vinnie Ream, Alice Robertson, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, William H. Taft, Booker T. Washington, Robert C. Winthrop, and Mary Emma Woolley.

Names

• Dawes, Henry L. (Henry Laurens), 1816-1903
• Dawes, Anna Laurens, 1851-1938
• Dawes, Electa Allen Sanderson, 1822-1901

Headings

• -  Abbott, Lyman,--1835-1922--Correspondence
• -  Adams, Charles Francis,--1807-1886--Correspondence
• -  Adams, Henry,--1838-1918--Correspondence
• -  Allen, Charles,--1827-1913--Correspondence
• -  Ames, Oakes,--1804-1873
• -  Ames, Oakes,--1804-1873--Correspondence
• -  Anthony, Susan B.--(Susan Brownell),--1820-1906--Correspondence
• -  Ashmun, George,--1804-1870--Correspondence
• -  Bell, Alexander Graham,--1847-1922--Correspondence
• -  Blaine, James Gillespie,--1830-1893--Correspondence
• -  Blair, Montgomery,--1813-1883--Correspondence
• -  Bliss, Cornelius Newton,--1833-1911--Correspondence
• -  Booth, Maud Ballington,--1865-1948--Correspondence
• -  Bowles, Samuel,--1826-1878--Correspondence
• -  Bowman, Selwyn Zadock,--1840-1928--Correspondence
• -  Butler, Benjamin F.--(Benjamin Franklin),--1795-1858--Correspondence
• -  Chaffee, Calvin Clifford,--1811-1896--Correspondence
• -  Chorpenning, George,--1820-1894--Claims vs. United States
• -  Claflin, William,--1818-1905--Correspondence
• -  Cleveland, Frances Folsom,--1864-1947--Correspondence
• -  Colfax, Schuyler,--1823-1885--Correspondence
• -  Dana, Richard Henry,--Jr.,--1815-1882--Correspondence
• -  Davis, Cushman K.--(Cushman Kellogg),--1838-1900--Correspondence
• -  Dodge, Grace H.--(Grace Hoadley),--1856-1914--Correspondence
• -  Dwight, Theodore F.--Correspondence
• -  Eliot, Samuel A.--(Samuel Atkins),--1862-1950--Correspondence
• -  Everett, Edward,--1794-1865--Correspondence
• -  Field, Cyrus W.--(Cyrus West),--1819-1892--Correspondence
• -  Fletcher, Alice C.--(Alice Cunningham),--1838-1923--Correspondence
• -  Foster, John Watson,--1836-1917--Correspondence
• -  Gilder, Richard Watson,--1844-1909--Correspondence
• -  Garfield, James A.--(James Abram),--1831-1881--Correspondence
• -  Greet, Ben,--Sir,--1857-1936--Autographs
• -  Hale, Edward Everett,--1822-1909--Correspondence
• -  Hawley, Joseph R.--(Joseph Roswell),--1826-1905--Correspondence
• -  Hoar, George Frisbie,--1826-1904--Correspondence
• -  Hopkins, Mark,--1802-1887--Correspondence
• -  Houghton, Henry Oscar,--1823-1895--Correspondence
• -  Howard, O. O.--(Oliver Otis),--1830-1909--Correspondence
• -  Howe, Julia Ward,--1819-1910--Correspondence
• -  Huntington, F. D.--(Frederic Dan),--1819-1904--Correspondence
• -  Jewett, Sarah Orne,--1849-1909--Correspondence
• -  Lamar, L. Q. C.--(Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus),--1825-1893--Correspondence
• -  Lincoln, Robert Todd,--1843-1926--Correspondence
• -  Lodge, Henry Cabot,--1850-1924--Correspondence
• -  Long, John Davis,--1838-1915--Correspondence
• -  Lowden, Frank O.--(Frank Orren),--1861-1943--Correspondence
• -  McClellan, George B.--(George Brinton),--1826-1885--Correspondence
• -  McClure, S. S.--(Samuel Sidney),--1857-1949--Correspondence
• -  Miles, Nelson Appleton,--1839-1925--Correspondence
• -  Morgan, John Tyler,--1824-1907--Correspondence
• -  Morgan, T. J.--(Thomas Jefferson),--1839-1902--Correspondence
• -  Morrill, Justin S.--(Justin Smith),--1810-1898--Correspondence
• -  Newcomb, Simon,--1835-1909--Correspondence
• -  Noble, John W.--(John Willcock),--1831-1912--Correspondence
• -  Palmer, Alice Freeman,--1855-1902--Correspondence
• -  Pinchot, Gifford,--1865-1946--Correspondence
• -  Platt, Orville Hitchcock,--1827-1905--Correspondence
• -  Porter, William P.--(William Pitt),--1819-1873--Correspondence
• -  Pratt, Ella Farman,--1837-1907--Correspondence
• -  Ream, Vinnie,--1847-1914--Correspondence
• -  Robertson, Alice,--1854-1931--Correspondence
• -  Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Correspondence
• -  Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah,--1856-1928--Correspondence
• -  Sheridan, Philip Henry,--1831-1888--Correspondence
• -  Spooner, John C.--(John Coit),--1843-1919--Correspondence
• -  Sumner, Charles,--1811-1874--Correspondence
• -  Taft, William H.--(William Howard),--1857-1930--Correspondence
• -  Tarbell, Ida M.--(Ida Minerva),--1857-1944--Correspondence
• -  Thayer, Lyman C.--(Lyman Curtiss),--1821-1863--Correspondence
• -  Tinker, Edward R.,--1822-1915--Correspondence
• -  Washburne, E. B.--(Elihu Benjamin),--1816-1887--Correspondence
• -  Washington, Booker T.,--1856-1915--Correspondence
• -  Welsh, Herbert,--1851-1941--Correspondence
• -  Winthrop, Robert C.--(Robert Charles),--1809-1894--Correspondence
• -  Woolley, Mary Emma,--1863-1947--Correspondence
• -  Dawes family
• -  United States.--Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes
• -  United States.--Congress.--House
• -  United States.--Congress.--Senate
• -  United States.--Congress.--Senate.--Committee on Indian Affairs
• -  United States.--Weather Bureau
• -  Credit Mobilier of America
• -  Gallaudet College
• -  Civil service--United States
• -  Deaf--Education--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Five Civilized Tribes--Government relations
• -  Indians of North America--Government relations
• -  Political campaigns--United States
• -  Political conventions--United States
• -  Railroads--United States
• -  Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• -  Tariff--United States
• -  United States--Politics and government--19th century
• -  United States--Politics and government--1901-1909

Notes

• -  Arranged in eleven series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1833-1931; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1833-1933; Series 3: Autograph Correspondence Collection, 1857-1929; Series 4: Letterbooks, 1848-1887; Series 5: Personal File, 1833-1903; Series 6: Biography File, 1906-1909; Series 7: Speeches, 1840-1901; Series 8: Indian Affairs, 1867-1929; Series 9: Miscellany, 1841-1929; Series 10: Scrapbooks, 1851-1903; and Series 11: Oversize, 1832-1903.
• -  Gift and bequest, Anna Laurens Dawes, 1931-1944.
• -  Gift, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, 1987.
• -  U.S. representative and senator from Massachusetts.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011203

Medium

• 22,000 items.
• 64 containers plus 2 oversize.
• 30 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm78017988

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78017988

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