Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Lucretia Rudolph Garfield papers,

Title

• Lucretia Rudolph Garfield papers,

Summary

• Correspondence, family papers, biographical material, addresses, articles, memorial poetry, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to the assassination of Garfield's husband, President James A. Garfield; public reaction to the assassination; the trial of Charles Julius Guiteau (1841-1882); and Garfield, Rudolph, and Stanley-Brown family affairs. Documents Lucretia Garfield's interest in art; civic and political affairs; the Disciples of Christ; genealogy; literature; social life of Washington, D.C.; women's rights; and the publication of Garfield's works and biography, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield (1925) by Theodore Clarke Smith. Includes correspondence and other papers of Garfield's children chiefly of Abram Garfield, Irvin McDowell Garfield, and Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown.
• Other correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine; Almeda A. Booth; Frances Hawks Cameron Burnett; Frances Folsom Cleveland; Cyrus W. Field; Julia Dent Grant; Benjamin Harrison; John Hay; Rutherford B. Hayes; William Dean Howells; Robert Todd Lincoln; James Russell Lowell; William McKinley; James K. Polk; Sarah Childress Polk; Whitelaw Reid; Almon Ferdinand Rockwell; Rebecca Selleck; David Gaskill Swaim; Whitelaw Reid; Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson; Julia Gardiner Tyler; and Victoria, Queen of Great Britain.

Names

• Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918
• Garfield, Abram, 1872-
• Garfield, Irvin McDowell, 1870-1951

Headings

• -  Blaine, James Gillespie,--1830-1893--Correspondence
• -  Booth, Almeda A.--(Almeda Ann),--1823-1875--Correspondence
• -  Burnett, Frances Hawks Cameron--Correspondence
• -  Cleveland, Frances Folsom,--1864-1947--Correspondence
• -  Field, Cyrus W.--(Cyrus West),--1819-1892--Correspondence
• -  Garfield, James A.--(James Abram),--1831-1881--Assassination
• -  Grant, Julia Dent,--1826-1902--Correspondence
• -  Guiteau, Charles J.--(Charles Julius),--1841-1882
• -  Harrison, Benjamin,--1833-1901--Correspondence
• -  Hay, John,--1838-1905--Correspondence
• -  Hayes, Rutherford B.,--1822-1893--Correspondence
• -  Howells, William Dean,--1837-1920--Correspondence
• -  Lincoln, Robert Todd,--1843-1926--Correspondence
• -  Lowell, James Russell,--1819-1891--Correspondence
• -  McKinley, William,--1843-1901--Correspondence
• -  Polk, James K.--(James Knox),--1795-1849--Correspondence
• -  Polk, Sarah Childress,--1803-1891--Correspondence
• -  Reid, Whitelaw,--1837-1912--Correspondence
• -  Rockwell, Almon Ferdinand,--1835---Correspondence
• -  Selleck, Rebecca--Correspondence
• -  Smith, Theodore Clarke,--1870-1960
• -  Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield,--1867-1947--Correspondence
• -  Swaim, David Gaskill,--1834-1897--Correspondence
• -  Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson,--Baron,--1809-1892--Correspondence
• -  Tyler, Julia Gardiner,--1820-1889--Correspondence
• -  Victoria,--Queen of Great Britain,--1819-1901--Correspondence
• -  Garfield family
• -  Rudolph family
• -  Stanley-Brown family
• -  Disciples of Christ
• -  Art
• -  Genealogy
• -  Literature
• -  Trials (Assassination)

Notes

• -  Arranged in twelve series. Series 1: Family Correspondence I, 1881-1918; Series 2: Family Correspondence II, 1807-1917; Series 3: Special Correspondence, 1853-1915; Series 4: General Correspondence and Other Papers, 1844-1912; Series 5: Writings, Diaries, Drafts, and Other Memorabilia, 1854-1912; Series 6: Miscellany, 1877-1918; Series 7: Financial Papers, 1881-1917; Series 8: Scrapbooks, 1881-1882; Series 9: Other Memorial and Biographical Material; Series 10: Abram Garfield Papers, 1881-1958; Series 11: Irvin McDowell Garfield Papers, 1880-1908; and Series 12: Stanley-Brown Family Papers, 1873-1928.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Gift, Garfield family, 1960-1968.
• -  Purchase, 1970-1975.
• -  Wife of President James A. Garfield.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010156

Medium

• 55,000 items.
• 152 containers plus 2 oversize.
• 70 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

• mm78050179

Access Advisory

• Open to research.
• Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78050179

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