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    Humphrey Marshall papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, notes, financial and legal records, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Marshall's career as a lawyer, soldier, and politician. Documents his work as a lawyer in Kentucky and Virginia and his service as U.S. representative from Kentucky, U.S. commissioner to China during the Taiping Rebellion, and U.S. army officer during the Mexican War. Subjects include the conduct of...
    • Contributor: McLean, John - Marshall, Humphrey
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    Willard family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, letterbooks, notebooks, diaries, subject files, business and financial records, and other papers. Papers of Joseph Edward Willard reflect his activities as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1894-1902), member of the staff of Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, lieutenant governor of Virginia (1902-1906), and U.S. ambassador to Spain (1913-1921). Papers (1865-1955) of his wife, Belle Layton...
    • Contributor: Willard, Belle Layton Wyatt - Willard, Joseph Clapp - Wyatt, Joseph W. - Willard, Joseph Edward - Willard, Antonia Ford
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    Cartter family papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly correspondence between members of the Cartter and Hanford families including David K. Cartter; his wife, Nancy Hanford Cartter; and their sons, David Kellogg Cartter Jr., and William H. Cartter. Includes letters concerning David K. Cartter's service as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, 1861-1862; Civil War letters or David Kellogg Carter Jr., second lieutenant in the 2nd Ohio Cavalry, U.S. Army, relating to the impact...
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    A.D. Bache papers,
    Alexander Dallas Bache papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, a journal, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, a partial index, and miscellaneous material reflecting Bache's service as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey (1843-1867), member of the U.S. Light-House Board, and U.S. superintendent of weights and measures, his work at the Dudley Observatory in Albany, N.Y., and his European trip as president of the proposed Girard College to study educational methods. Topics include...
    • Contributor: Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
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    William Short papers, Catalog Record Only Diplomatic, financial, and personal correspondence, financial and business papers, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Short's activities as secretary to Thomas Jefferson, his diplomatic missions to France, Holland, and Spain, his aborted mission to Russia, and his extensive business interests, especially land speculation in Ohio, Kentucky, New York, and Virginia, and his investments in railroads and canals. Correspondence with American and European diplomatic and...
    • Contributor: Short, William
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    William C. Rives papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, writings, financial records, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers of Rives pertaining to Jacksonianism, Whig political movement, Southern politics, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and diplomatic relations with France. Includes diaries, journals, and correspondence of members of the Rives family; a draft of Rives's History of the Life and Times of James Madison (1868-1873); and a draft of his unpublished...
    • Contributor: Walker, Thomas - Walker, Francis - Rives, William C. (William Cabell)
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    Jacob Gerhard Koch papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, letterbooks, diary, account books, ledgers, inventories, indexes, receipts, and estate and other papers documenting Koch's activities as a merchant and marine insurance broker in Amsterdam (1787-1790), Alexandria, Va. (1790-1792), and Philadelphia, Pa. (1792-1817), and reflecting his business dealings in Europe, Latin America, and North America. His diary (1817-1818) describes a trip to Paris, France. Also includes a 1941 published version of the memoirs...
    • Contributor: Koch, Jacob Gerhard
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    Duff Green papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, chiefly relating to business enterprises; accounts, contracts, deeds, promissory notes, drafts of corporation charters, prospectuses, claims cases and lawsuit papers, proceedings and other records of the management of several mining property companies, railroad companies, and industrial agencies, and other business papers; writings on political, economic, and historical subjects and on finance, trade, and industrial development; autobiographical fragments; biographical material written by Green's son...
    • Contributor: Green, Duff
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    Nathaniel Prentiss Banks papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence (1860-1880), and diaries and notebooks, letterbooks, military papers, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating chiefly to Banks's political career in the House of Representatives and to his service as an army officer during the Civil War. Includes papers on the Kansas territorial question, the assault on Charles Sumner, and the establishment of the Republican Party. Civil War topics include...
    • Contributor: Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss
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    William A. Burwell papers,
    William Armisted Burwell papers Catalog Record Only
    Letters (1808-1813) of Burwell to his wife, Letitia McCrury Burwell, and to Maj. William Dickerson pertaining to trade and foreign relations with Great Britain and France, the election of 1812, social life in Washington, D.C., congressional debates, and the War of 1812. Persons mentioned include Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Henry Clay, and Josiah Quincy. Also includes a memoir (1804-1810, 46 pages) of Burwell's service as...
    • Contributor: Burwell, William A. (William Armisted)
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    Custis-Lee family papers,
    Custis family papers | Lee family papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, letterbooks, genealogical papers, notebooks, financial records, indentures, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting the activities of several generations of the Custis and Lee families of Virginia, who served as diplomats, statesmen, politicians, planters, and military officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Subjects include agriculture in Virginia, mercantile and financial affairs, slavery, social life in Washington and Philadelphia, and to activities during the...
    • Contributor: Lee, William - Lee, Anne Robinson McCarty - Lee, Hannah Philippa Ludwell - Lee, Mary Randolph Custis - Lee, Richard Bland - Lee, Ludwell - Lee, Henry - Lee, Ann Hill Carter - Lee, Mary Custis - Lee, Mary Bland ... Lee, William - Lee, Anne Robinson McCarty - Lee, Hannah Philippa Ludwell - Lee, Mary Randolph Custis - Lee, Richard Bland - Lee, Ludwell - Lee, Henry - Lee, Ann Hill Carter - Lee, Mary Custis - Lee, Mary Bland - Lee, Charles - Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh - Lee, Thomas - Warden, David Bailie - Lee, Richard Henry - Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) - Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis - Lee, Arthur - Custis, George Washington Parke - Lee, Henrietta Bedinger
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    Burton Norvell Harrison family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, reports, memoranda, manuscripts of articles, speeches, and books, and other papers. Papers of J.B. Harrison include his correspondence with William W. Norvell relating to national and Virginia politics during the administration of Andrew Jackson, Harrison's travels in Europe (1829-1831), and his notes on conversations with James Madison. Papers of Burton Norvell Harrison include letters written as private secretary to Jefferson Davis during...
    • Contributor: Harrison, Samuel Jordan - Harrison, Burton - Harrison, J. B. (Jesse Burton) - Harrison, Francis Burton - Harrison, Burton Norvell - Harrison, Fairfax
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    Samuel Smith family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, letterbooks, military and political papers, notebooks, diaries, financial and legal papers, writings, printed matter, and other papers. Papers (1772-1850) of Samuel Smith relate to such topics as affairs of the U.S. Senate, public finance and the Bank of the United States, trade and tariffs, relations with Great Britain and France, Fort McHenry and the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812, and...
    • Contributor: Smith, John Spear - Smith, Robert - Smith, Samuel
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    John C. Babcock papers, Catalog Record Only Letters with drawings (1861-1864) from Babcock to relatives in Illinois concerning his work as an architect in Chicago, Ill.; service as a confidential agent in the Provost Marshal General's Bureau in Washington, D.C.; the incarceration of female prisoners at "Prison Greenhough," Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow's house in Washington; reaction to the Trent Affair, 1861; secessionist sentiment in Alexandria, Va.; the gathering of intelligence...
    • Contributor: Babcock, John C.
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    John McAllister Schofield papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, diary, journals, speeches, writings including Schofield's memoirs, reports, military records, court-martial papers, financial records, printed matter, maps, memorabilia, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Schofield's military career. Relates primarily to Schofield's post-Civil War service as commander of the U.S. Army's Department of the Missouri, Division of the Atlantic, Division of the Pacific, Military Division of the Gulf, and Military Division of the...
    • Contributor: Schofield, John McAllister
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    J.M. Mason papers,
    James Murray Mason papers Catalog Record Only
    Chiefly diplomatic communications sent while Mason was Confederate commissioner. Includes correspondence; dispatches; lists of supplies for the Confederate States from London; statements and depositions regarding piracy, claims, the blockade, and other naval and marine matters; cotton bonds and warrants; circulars; and printed matter. Includes instructions to Mason from Confederate officials J.P. Benjamin, William M. Browne, and R.M.T. Hunter as well as from the British...
    • Contributor: Mason, J. M. (James Murray)
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    Andrew Jackson Donelson papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, journals, draft messages of Andrew Jackson, diplomatic papers, news clippings, scrapbook, sketches, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Donelson's service as Andrew Jackson's aide-de-camp (1820-1822) and presidential secretary (1829-1837), charge d'affaires to Texas (1844-1845), U.S. minister to Prussia (1846-1849), editor of the Washington Union (1851-1852), and vice-presidential candidate (1856). Subjects include the Nullification Crisis, 1828-1832; national economic policy; the move to recharter the...
    • Contributor: Wilcox, Mary Emily Donelson - Randolph, Meriwether Lewis - Donelson, Emily Tennessee - Donelson, Andrew Jackson - United States. Constitution - Burke, Pauline Wilcox - Martin, James Glasgow
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    Nicholas Philip Trist papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, writings, notes, reports, legal and financial papers, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Trist's tenure as U.S. consul in Havana and his role in negotiating the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican War. Subjects include national politics, the presidential election of John Adams, political and military affairs in Mexico, John Slidell's mission to Mexico, Winfield Scott's command of...
    • Contributor: Trist, Nicholas Philip
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    Frank Kowalski papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, military orders, patents, newspaper clippings, printed matter, scrapbooks, drawings, photographs, and other papers pertaining primarily to Kowalski's career in the U.S. Army (1925-1958) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1959-1963). Military files document his directorship of the Disarmament School, U.S. Army Forces in the European Theater, London, England (1944-1945) and the school's training of Allied and American officers...
    • Contributor: Kowalski, Frank