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Found in 8 Collections and/or records:

 Collection
Found in: Manuscript Division

James Gillespie Blaine Family Papers

Identifier: MSS12914
Abstract

United States secretary of state, United States representative and senator from Maine, and journalist. Family and general correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, memoirs, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Blaine's public career.

Dates 1776-1945; Majority of material found within 1870-1892
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Found in: Manuscript Division

Henry L. Dawes Papers

Identifier: MSS17988
Abstract United States representative and senator from Massachusetts. Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, reports, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, photographs, citations, congressional commissions, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and an incomplete biography of Dawes by his daughter, Anna Laurens Dawes. The collection documents mainly Dawes's career as a federal legislator and his work on issues relating to the American Indian, including his tenure as...
Dates 1833-1933; Majority of material found within 1833-1903
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Found in: Manuscript Division

William Maxwell Evarts Papers

Identifier: MSS20032
Abstract

Lawyer, United States senator from New York, and United States secretary of state and attorney general. Correspondence, diary, journal, account books, minute book, printed material, drafts of memoranda, and a journal of college reading relating mainly to New York state, national, and international politics from the Civil War to the 1890s.

Dates 1667-1918; Majority of material found within ( 1877-1891)
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Found in: Manuscript Division

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield Papers

Identifier: MSS50179
Abstract

First Lady of the United States as wife of President James A. Garfield. Correspondence, family papers, biographical material, addresses, articles, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, memorial poetry, and other papers relating to the Garfield family, including the assassination of President Garfield.

Dates 1807-1958; Majority of material found within 1844-1918
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Found in: Manuscript Division

Samuel Finley Breese Morse Papers

Identifier: MSS33670
Abstract Artist and inventor. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers. Includes letters from Samuel Finley Breese Morse to his family describing his studies in England during the War of 1812 and his subsequent struggle to support himself as a portrait painter in the United States; correspondence and other papers relating to Morse's invention of the telegraph, lawsuits over patents, and his dispute with Joseph Henry who also claimed to have...
Dates 1793-1944; Majority of material found within 1807-1872
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Found in: Manuscript Division

John Sherman Papers

Identifier: MSS39784
Abstract Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, and United States senator and representative from Ohio. Correspondence, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers chiefly relating to Sherman's role in Ohio politics after 1850. Includes family correspondence during Sherman's school years, general correspondence during his years in Congress and the cabinet, and papers relating to Kansas in the 1850s when he was a member of the House of Representatives committee investigating conditions in the...
Dates 1836-1900; Majority of material found within 1857-1894
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Found in: Manuscript Division

Short-Harrison-Symmes Families Papers

Identifier: MSS39883
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, financial records, genealogical material, and printed matter collected largely by John Cleves Short (1792-1864) and relating primarily to the financial interests of the Short, Harrison, and Symmes families, especially land and land speculation in Ohio.

Dates 1760-1878; Majority of material found within ( 1800-1860)
 Collection
Found in: Manuscript Division

David Ames Wells Papers

Identifier: MSS45062
Abstract

Economist, author, and public official. Correspondence, printed material, writings, and other papers concerning economics, with particular emphasis on taxation, the tariff, and free trade.

Dates 1795-1898; Majority of material found within ( 1860-1886)
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