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    Martin Van Buren papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, speeches, messages to Congress, writings, notes, legal record book, estate record book, autobiographical material, and other papers pertaining to slavery and the antislavery movement; banking and the Second Bank of the United States; party politics in New York State and at the national level relating to the Democratic, Federalist, National Republican, and Whig parties, particularly during the Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren...
    • Contributor: Van Buren, Martin - Van Buren, John
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    David Bailie Warden papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, scientific notes and articles, business records, historical notes, and other papers relating chiefly to Warden's service as private secretary to John Armstrong, U.S. minister to France, (1804-1808), and later, as U.S. consul at Paris (1808-1814). Also includes material pertaining to Native Americans, the Caribbean, and geography and medicine.
    • Contributor: Warden, David Bailie
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    Robert R. Hitt papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, diaries, notes and notebooks, business records, family papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to Hitt's service as U.S. assistant secretary of state, U.S. congressman from Illinois, and secretary to the U.S. Legation in Paris, France. Also documents his service as court reporter, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and reporter for a board of treaty commissioners to the...
    • Contributor: Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts)
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    William Eustis papers, Catalog Record Only Chiefly incoming correspondence from Eustis's years as U.S. secretary of war and minister to Holland. Subjects include the Burr-Clinton controversy, the Louisiana Purchase, Indian affairs, the war between England and France, and relations between the U.S. and the Netherlands. Also includes papers of Eustis's father Benjamin, his wife Caroline Langdon Eustis, and other family members, legal documents, and other papers. Correspondents include John Quincy...
    • Contributor: Eustis, Caroline Langdon - Eustis, William - Eustis, Benjamin
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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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    James McHenry papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, financial papers, and other papers relating to McHenry's service as U.S. secretary of war in the administrations of George Washington and John Adams; and as a Continental Army officer, particularly as secretary to George Washington and on the staff of the Marquis de Lafayette. Subjects include Indian affairs, frigate construction, fortification of ports and harbors, defense of the frontier, army regulations, and...
    • Contributor: McHenry, James
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    Henry Laurens papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, minutes, journals, reports, resolves, memorials, and reports of Henry Laurens pertaining to his service in the U.S. Continental Congress; the Provincial Congress of South Carolina and the Council of Safety and the Committee of Intelligence; the American Revolutionary War; Laurens's diplomatic service in France; Laurens's travels in Europe; and Laurens family affairs. Includes material pertaining to the Cherokee, Creek, and Chicasaw Indians, primarily...
    • Contributor: Laurens, James - Piercy, William - Thompson, William - Laurens, John - Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier - Laurens, Henry
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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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    Consider Tiffany historical sketch,
    Consider Tiffany papers Catalog Record Only     Historical sketch of the early Indian wars in America, 1600s; wars between England, France, and Spain, 1676-1763; relations between the American colonies and Great Britain, 1763-1775; the American Revolution, 1775-1783; and the postwar period, 1783-1796. Also includes a list of the monarchs of Great Britain and a description of the popes, emperors, and kings of France and England. Includes an account of Nathan Hale's...
    • Contributor: Tiffany, Consider - Carter, Clarence Edwin