Scope and Content Note
The papers of Daniel E. Sickles (1819-1914) span the years 1821-1918. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, documents, legal and financial records, clippings, and printed matter. Included are drafts of reports to the secretary of state while Sickles was serving as minister to Spain (1869-1873) relating, in part, to the Cuban Insurrection and to the Virginius affair. Other topics include Sickles's service as chairman (1886-1912) of the New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga and as a member of the House of Representative in the 53rd Congress. Correspondents include Sickles's father, George Garrett Sickles, his son, George Stanton Sickles, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Elihu Root. Some of the material consists of transcripts.