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    George Morgan papers, Catalog Record Only Volume containing official and personal correspondence, reports, commission, survey, and other papers relating chiefly to Morgan's official duties as Indian agent for the U.S. during the Revolution and to his dealings with the Delaware, Shawnee, Mingo, and Wyandot Indians in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Also includes a 1789 report on territory and settlements along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, information relating to Morgan's speculation in...
    • Contributor: Morgan, George
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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of the Rives family; a draft of Rives's History of the Life and Times of James Madison (1868-1873); and a draft of his unpublished...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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    Henry Clay family papers,
    Clay family papers Catalog Record Only
    Personal, official, and family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay, his son James B. Clay, and other Clay family members. Part I consists of general correspondence relating primarily to politics; dispatches and instructions sent by Henry Clay as secretary of state to chargés d'affaires...
    • Contributor: Transylvania University - Morrison, James - Clay, Henry - Clay, James B. (James Brown)
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    Shelby family papers, Catalog Record Only Correspondence, memoranda, legal and financial records, military records, genealogical data, and other papers relating primarily to Evan Shelby, soldier and frontiersman, and to his son, Isaac Shelby, soldier and political leader, providing a record of frontier life and political and economic developments in Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. The papers of Isaac Shelby document his activities during the Indian wars, Revolutionary...
    • Contributor: Shelby, Evan - Shelby, Isaac
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    Jedidiah Morse correspondence,
    Jedidiah Morse papers Catalog Record Only
    ALS (1793 December 26; Charlestown) of Morse to John Stockdale discussing Gilbert Imlay and Morse's maps of Kentucky and the Northwest Territory, Indian wars in the Ohio River Valley, and Generals Arthur St. Clair and Anthony Wayne; ALS (1798 January 22; Northampton) from Joseph Lyman to Morse and an ALS (1799 June 4; London) from Charles Dilly to Morse with note (1799 May 13;...
    • Contributor: Morse, Jedidiah
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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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    Burbank-Van Voorhis families papers,
    Burbank family papers | Van Voorhis family papers Catalog Record Only
    Correspondence, diaries, and military papers of Burbank and Van Voorhis family members spanning the War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, and the American occupation of the Philippines in the early 20th century. Diary of Captain Sullivan Burbank pertaining primarily to his service during the War of 1812 at forts in New York State and Detroit, Mich., areas; troop movements; passing American and British...
    • Contributor: Van Voorhis, Edith Burbank - Burbank, Sullivan - Burbank, Sidney - Van Voorhis, Daniel