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Found in 9 Collections and/or records:

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Edmund Burke Papers

Identifier: MSS14340
Abstract

Lawyer, newspaper editor, and U.S. representative. Correspondence, drafts of newspaper editorials, speeches, committee reports, resolutions, commissions, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Burke's career as a newspaper editor in New Hampshire and as a congressman.

Dates 1821-1881
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Andrew Jackson Donelson Papers

Identifier: MSS18721
Abstract Lawyer, editor, army officer, diplomat, and presidential secretary. Correspondence, journals, draft messages of Andrew Jackson, diplomatic papers, newsclippings, scrapbook, sketches, photos, and other papers covering Donelson's career as aide-de-camp and secretary to Andrew Jackson, charge d'affaires to Texas, minister to Prussia, editor of the Washington Union, and candidate for vice president. Includes papers of Donelson's wife, Emily Tennessee Donelson,...
Dates 1779-1943; Majority of material found within 1813-1869
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Andrew Jackson Papers

Identifier: MSS27532
Abstract

United States president, senator, representative, and army officer from Tennessee. Correspondence, military papers, and other papers reflecting most phases of Jackson's career.

Dates 1775-1874; Majority of material found within 1785-1845
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Henry Mason Morfit Papers

Identifier: MSS33431
Abstract

Lawyer. Correspondence and financial and business papers relating to Morfit's Washington, D.C., practice as a claims lawyer and as a political figure in the administrations of Andrew Jackson.

Dates 1819-1858; Majority of material found within ( 1844-1855)
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James K. Polk Papers

Identifier: MSS36509
Abstract

United States president, Speaker of the House and representative from Tennessee, and governor of Tennessee. General correspondence, presidential letterbooks, diaries, account and memorandum books, drafts and copies of speeches and messages, family papers, financial and legal papers, and printed matter relating primarily to Polk's political career in Tennessee and on the national level.

Dates 1775-1891; Majority of material found within 1830-1849
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Riggs Family Papers

Identifier: MSS37895
Abstract

Merchant and banking family of New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. Family and business correspondence, diaries, account books, writings, financial records, biographical and genealogical papers, printed materials, and other papers of Riggs family members.

Dates 1763-1945
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Edmund Roberts Papers

Identifier: MSS37960
Abstract

Merchant and diplomat. Official and family correspondence, journals, manuscript drafts of Roberts' s book Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat . . . During the Years 1832-34, diplomatic documents, legal and financial papers, and miscellaneous material chiefly documenting his service as a special agent of the U.S. to negotiate treaties with Siam, Muscat, and Cochin China.

Dates 1803-1905; Majority of material found within ( 1832-1836)
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Joseph Sewall Papers

Identifier: MSS39529
Abstract

Adjutant general of Maine and collector of customs for the District of Bath. General business correspondence, including correspondence with the Treasury Department, account books, printed documents, receipts, abstracts, and business files, relating exclusively to Sewall's position as collector of customs. Includes correspondence, certificates, and military papers of Frederick Dummer Sewall, army officer and internal revenue agent.

Dates 1832-1907; Majority of material found within ( 1832-1842)
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Martin Van Buren Papers

Identifier: MSS43828
Abstract United States president, vice president, secretary of state, and senator from New York. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, and messages to Congress, autobiographical material, notes, certificate, legal record book, estate record book, 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 Federalist, National Republican, Whig, and Democratic...
Dates 1787-1910; Majority of material found within 1820-1850