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Found in 4 Collections and/or records:

 Collection

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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William Dudley Foulke Papers

Identifier: MSS21170
Abstract Lawyer, public official, and author from Indiana. Correspondence, diaries, journals, copybook, speeches, writings, notes, legal papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers, including a late fifteenth century fragment of the Tristram Saga obtained by Arthur Middleton Reeves on a trip to Iceland. The bulk of the collection consists of Foulke's correspondence reflecting his literary career and public service, including letters from Theodore Roosevelt discussing civil service reform,...
Dates circa 1470-1952; Majority of material found within ( 1868-1935)
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Robert Green Ingersoll Papers

Identifier: MSS27151
Abstract

Lawyer and lecturer. Diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, writings, lectures, scrapbooks, family papers, and miscellaneous financial, legal, and personal material relating to Ingersoll's involvement in politics and law and as a lecturer and writer on agnosticism and religion.

Dates 1826-1940; Majority of material found within ( 1866-1899)
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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