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Found in 12 Collections and/or records:

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Ethel Armes Collection of Lee Family Papers

Identifier: MSS54304
Abstract

Correspondence, architectural plans, genealogical papers, maps, legal papers, clippings, and other material assembled by Armes in preparing her book, Stratford Hall: The Great House of the Lees (1936).

Dates 1671-1936
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Francis Baylies Papers

Identifier: MSS12096
Abstract

Scholar, diplomat, politician, and historian. Primarily writings by Baylies relating to the American Revolution, the Confederation and the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, and the administrations of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

Dates 1814-1843
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Thomas Jefferson Papers

Identifier: MSS27748
Abstract United States president, vice president, and secretary of state; diplomat, architect, inventor, planter, and philosopher. Correspondence, official statements and addresses, including a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, plantation and personal accounts, notebook, fee book, case book, garden book, farm book, calculations of interest, records of early Virginia laws and history and other writings on political, legal, educational, and scientific matters, newspaper clippings, and...
Dates 1606-1943; Majority of material found within 1775-1826
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James Madison Papers

Identifier: MSS31021
Abstract

United States president and secretary of state, delegate to the United States Continental Congress, and United States representative from Virginia. Correspondence, memoranda, autobiography, notes of debates in the Continental Congress (1776) and the Federal Convention (1787), and related material.

Dates 1723-1859; Majority of material found within 1771-1836
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James McHenry Papers

Identifier: MSS32177
Abstract

United States secretary of war, member of the Continental Congress from Maryland, Continental Army officer, and physician. Correspondence, financial records, diary, and other papers relating to McHenry's service as United States 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.

Dates 1775-1862; Majority of material found within 1775-1816
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James Dudley Morgan Collection of Digges-L’Enfant-Morgan Papers

Identifier: MSS18481
Abstract Chiefly correspondence, accounts, commissions, notes, and other papers (1778-1828) relating to soldier and engineer Pierre C. L'Enfant, including material concerning the Society of the Cincinnati, the design of the city of Washington, D.C., Robert Morris's home in Philadelphia, and Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania, and Fort Washington, Maryland. Also includes papers relating to the Digges family of Prince Georges County, Maryland, especially Thomas Atwood Digges and William Dudley Digges, and to...
Dates 1674-1923; Majority of material found within ( 1778-1828)
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Gouverneur Morris Papers

Identifier: MSS33571
Abstract Lawyer, diplomat, and senator from New York. Letterbooks, diaries, legal and financial papers, and miscellany relating to Morris's mission to London, 1790-1791, his service as minister to France, 1792-1794, and in the United States Senate, 1800-1803. Also includes material relating to social life in Paris, the French Revolution, Morris's New York estate, the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention, and other events of the period, and financial memoranda of his wife, Anne Cary Randolph...
Dates 1771-1834; Majority of material found within ( 1789-1816)
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William A. Oldridge Collection of George Washington's Headquarters Staff Writings

Identifier: MSS38620
Abstract

Transcripts of letters collected and edited by Oldridge. Includes correspondence, writings, and other papers of Oldridge concerning the location of papers and illustrations of Washington's headquarters staff and historical accounts from the original material.

Dates 1775-1962; Majority of material found within ( 1775-1783)
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William Short Papers

Identifier: MSS39891
Abstract

Secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, diplomat, and landowner. Diplomatic, financial, and personal correspondence, financial and business papers, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Short's activities as secretary to Jefferson, his diplomatic missions, and business interests.

Dates 1778-1853
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Herman K. Crofoot Collection of Francis Elias Spinner Papers

Identifier: MSS37705
Abstract

Merchant, banker, United States representative from New York, and United States treasurer. Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, autographs, printed matter, and clippings relating to Spinner's political, financial, and personal activities. Includes a diary of John Peter Spinner.

Dates 1792-1908; Majority of material found within ( 1825-1891)
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United States Finance Collection

Identifier: MSS20545
Abstract

Correspondence, bond payments, claims against the federal government and the Bank of the United States, French and Spanish indemnity payments, indentures, miscellaneous state and federal legal items, statements of accounts, consulate reports, United States lottery drawings, and other state and federal financial documents.

Dates 1761-1908; Majority of material found within ( 1793-1873)
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George Washington Papers

Identifier: MSS44693
Abstract

United States president, United States Army officer, and patriot. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, accounts, military papers, and other papers documenting Washington's relations with the Continental Congress, his command of the Continental Army, his presidency, and other aspects of his career.

Dates 1592-1943; Majority of material found within 1748-1799