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Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

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Archivo Nacional de Cuba Collection Pertaining to Spanish Colonial Rule in Louisiana and the Floridas

Identifier: MSS17376
Abstract Transcripts of material found in the Cuban national archives pertaining to Spanish colonial rule in Louisiana and the Floridas. Includes correspondence of the Spanish governor of Louisiana, Bernardo de Gálvez, correspondence of British traders operating under Spanish protection, in particular William Panton, material concerning commerce and political relations with the local Indian tribes, Spain’s part in the American revolution and relations with the newly independent states, and...
Dates 1770-1911; Majority of material found within ( 1770-1805)
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Nathaniel Prentiss Banks Papers

Identifier: MSS11734
Abstract

United States representative, governor of Massachusetts, and army officer. Family and general correspondence, diaries and notebooks, letterbooks, military papers, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and miscellany relating chiefly to Banks’s political career and as an army officer during the Civil War.

Dates 1829-1911; Majority of material found within ( 1860-1880)
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James L. Cathcart Papers

Identifier: MSS15388
Abstract

Diplomat. Journals and letterbooks relating chiefly to Cathcart’s capture (1785) by Algerians off Cape Saint Vincent, Portugal, while he served on the schooner Maria of Boston, his eleven-year captivity, and the successive offices he held while a prisoner, becoming chief Christian secretary to the Dey of Algiers (1792). The letterbooks relate to his later service as United States consul (1797-1817).

Dates 1785-1817
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J. L. M. Curry Papers

Identifier: MSS17418
Abstract Statesman, author, clergyman, diplomat, and educator. Diaries, correspondence, printed matter, clippings, memorabilia, notes and memoranda, legal papers, accounts, lectures and sermons, essays, scrapbook, manuscript of autobiography, speeches, and articles, and catalog of Curry's library. Includes autographs of presidents, Confederate leaders, Spanish noblemen, royalty, and writers, jurists, diplomats, educators, historians, scientists, reformers, artists, statesmen, literary figures,...
Dates 1637-1939; Majority of material found within 1866-1903
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Caleb Cushing Papers

Identifier: MSS17509
Abstract

United States cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, notes, notebooks, legal file, business papers, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, maps, photographs, and other papers reflecting Cushing's role in national and international affairs of the mid-nineteenth century.

Dates circa 1785-1906; Majority of material found within 1820-1878
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William R. Day Papers

Identifier: MSS18028
Abstract Lawyer, U. S. secretary of state, U. S. supreme court justice, and U.S. Court of Appeals judge. Correspondence, memoranda, financial papers, scrapbooks, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating chiefly to personal matters but also touching on foreign affairs, political patronage requests, legal matters, Day’s relationship with William McKinley, and his activities as secretary of state, Supreme Court justice, and president of the McKinley National Memorial...
Dates 1820-1923; Majority of material found within ( 1897-1917)
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Hamilton Fish Papers

Identifier: MSS20602
Abstract

Congressman, senator, governor, and secretary of state. Correspondence, journals, diaries, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Fish's service as secretary of state under Ulysses S. Grant, as a member of Congress, and governor of New York.

Dates 1732-1914; Majority of material found within 1840-1890
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Hans Peter Kraus Collection of Spanish American Documents

Identifier: MSS31013
Abstract

Bookman, collector, and bibliophile. Letters, decrees, order books, reports, instructions, dispatches, printed material, and miscellaneous legal documents concerning the history of colonial Spanish America, including the activities of the Mexican Inquisition.

Dates 1433-1966; Majority of material found within 1500-1800
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William L. Marcy Papers

Identifier: MSS31336
Abstract

U.S. secretary of war and secretary of state, governor of New York, and lawyer. Correspondence, commonplace book, diary, drafts of diplomatic dispatches, writings, and other papers relating chiefly to Marcy's career in politics, diplomacy, and as a cabinet member in the administrations of James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce. Included is material collected and compiled by Henry Barrett Learned and others.

Dates 1806-1930; Majority of material found within ( 1806-1857)
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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 Monroe Papers

Identifier: MSS33217
Abstract

United States president, secretary of state, secretary of war, and diplomat; delegate to the Continental Congress from and governor of Virginia. Correspondence relating primarily to negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe-Pinkney treaty with Great Britain, the War of 1812, the purchase of Florida, South American independence, and Virginia politics and a diary, an account book of memoranda and official and personal accounts, and other papers.

Dates 1758-1839
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William Plumer Papers

Identifier: MSS36434
Abstract

Governor of New Hampshire and legislator, United States senator from New Hampshire, essayist, and historian. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, autobiography, writings, notes, transcripts of poetry, essays, extracts, and other papers relating to Plumer’s personal life and career in New Hampshire and national politics and as an essayist.

Dates 1774-1845; Majority of material found within ( 1802-1825)
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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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Daniel Edgar Sickles Papers

Identifier: MSS39958
Abstract United States Army officer, United States representative from New York and diplomat. Correspondence, speeches, documents, legal and financial papers, clippings, and printed matter, including 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 service as chairman (1868-1912) of the New York Monuments Commission for...
Dates 1821-1918
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Aileen Moore Topping collection concerning a Spanish diplomatic mission to the United States

Identifier: MSS83055
Abstract

English translation by Topping of Spanish reports on the U.S. Continental Congress during the American Revolution from originals in the Archivo General de Indias and the Archivo Histórico Nacional, Spain.

Dates 1777-1785
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Willard Family Papers

Identifier: MSS45757
Abstract

Correspondence, letterbooks, notebooks, diaries, subject files, business and financial records, and other papers documenting the family's involvement in the business, social, and political life of Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Dates 1800-1968; Majority of material found within ( 1890-1954)