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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

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Albert J. Beveridge collection of John Marshall papers

Identifier: MSS31450
Abstract

Lawyer and chief justice of the Supreme Court. Correspondence, a journal, account books, and other papers primarily gathered by Albert J. Beveridge for his research on John Marshall.

Dates 1776-1884; Majority of material found within 1795-1835
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Charles E. Bohlen Papers

Identifier: MSS13102
Abstract

Diplomat, executive, and author. Correspondence, speeches and lectures, writings, drafts, notes, research material, appointment books, interviews, subject files, photographs and photograph albums, and other papers largely relating to Bohlen's diplomatic career and his book Witness to History, 1929-1969.

Dates 1862-1978; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1973)
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Wallace Carroll Papers

Identifier: MSS61931
Abstract

Journalist and psychological warfare strategist. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and propaganda leaflets documenting primarily Carroll's work for the United States Office of War Information and the Psychological Strategy Board.

Dates 1941-1989; Majority of material found within ( 1941-1953)
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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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Joseph Hodges Choate Papers

Identifier: MSS15768
Abstract

Lawyer, author, and diplomat. Correspondence, letterbooks, addresses, lectures, legal memoranda, memorabilia, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Choate's student days at Harvard University, his law practice in New York, his charitable work, and his diplomatic career.

Dates 1745-1929; Majority of material found within ( 1852-1917)
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Custis-Lee Family Papers

Identifier: MSS17558
Abstract

Correspondence, letterbooks, genealogical papers, notebooks, financial records, indentures, clippings, photographs, and other papers documenting the activities of several generations of the Custis and Lee families of Virginia, who served as diplomats, statesmen, politicians, planters, and military officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Dates 1700-circa 1928; Majority of material found within ( 1770-1870)
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Charles Guillaume Frédéric Dumas Papers

Identifier: MSS19091
Abstract

Scholar, translator, and charge d'affaires for the United States in the Netherlands. Diplomatic correspondence from the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods.

Dates 1775-1793
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Charles Henri, comte d'Estaing Papers

Identifier: MSS4422
Abstract

French naval officer. Notebook, correspondence, photographs, and other papers primarily relating to d’Estaing’s involvement during the American Revolutionary War.

Dates 1778-2006; Majority of material found within 1778-1779
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Benjamin Franklin Papers

Identifier: MSS21451
Abstract Statesman, publisher, scientist, and diplomat. Correspondence, journals, records, articles, and other material relating to Franklin's life and career. Includes manuscripts (1728) of his Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion; negotiations in London (1775); letterbooks (1779-1782) of the United States legation in Paris; records (1780-1783) of the United States peace commissioners, including journals kept by Franklin and Richard Oswald; and papers (1781-1818)...
Dates 1726-1907; Majority of material found within ( 1770-1789)
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Edmond Charles Genet Papers

Identifier: MSS22079
Abstract

French diplomat and first minister of the French Republic to the United States. Correspondence written and received during Genet's diplomatic service in Russia and the United States; also legation accounts, extracts from English newspapers, notes relating to England and America, scientific papers, a memoir prepared by his son, Geo. Clinton Genet, and other descendants, and printed material.

Dates 1734-1895; Majority of material found within ( 1789-1793)
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Elbridge Gerry Papers

Identifier: MSS22657
Abstract United States vice president, delegate to the Continental Congress, and United States representative from and governor of Massachusetts. Chiefly correspondence relating to various aspects of Gerry's public career, including his memberships in the Massachusetts General Court and Provincial Congress (where he was active on committees of correspondence, safety, and supply during the Revolution), service in the Continental Congress and the U.S. House of Representatives, governorship of...
Dates 1772-1901; Majority of material found within 1776-1814
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Duff Green Papers

Identifier: mm75023978
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Journalist, politician, entrepreneur, and industrial promoter. Correspondence, writings, maps, and printed matter reflecting Green’s political service and views on Southern culture.

Dates 1716-1883; Majority of material found within ( 1827-1845)
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Alexander Hamilton Papers

Identifier: MSS24612
Abstract Delegate from New York to the United States Continental Congress, United States secretary of the treasury, United States army officer, statesman, and lawyer. Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal and financial papers, printed matter, and other papers relating to Hamilton's personal life and public career, especially his service as an aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War, his participation in the United States Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention,...
Dates 1708-1917; Majority of material found within 1777-1804
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Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman Papers

Identifier: MSS84292
Abstract Political activist and diplomat. Family papers, correspondence, memoranda, reports, agenda, minutes, programs, briefing binders, political polls, lists, research files, Federal Election Commission filings, financial and legal records, speeches and writings, interview and event transcripts, diary excerpts, biographical material, awards, publicity material, engagement calendars, scheduling and event files, travel files, digital files, address books, guest books, passports, marriage...
Dates 1909-1997; Majority of material found within 1943-1997
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Robert R. Hitt Papers

Identifier: MSS26104
Abstract

U.S. Representative from Illinois. Personal, political, diplomatic, and business correspondence and other papers, including shorthand notes and material relating to Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln Douglas Debates, and Civil War courts-martial. Other topics include his congressional service and the annexation of Hawaii.

Dates 1830-1906
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William D. Leahy Papers

Identifier: MSS29678
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Naval officer, diplomat, and governor of Puerto Rico. Diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to Leahy's naval and diplomatic career.

Dates 1897-1959; Majority of material found within ( 1935-1959)
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Lee-Palfrey Families Papers

Identifier: MSS65612
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, journals, clippings, maps, photographs, and other papers of William Lee (1772-1840) of Boston, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and France and members of his family. Of particular interest are Lee's diaries and letters detailing his experiences as a commercial agent and secretary to the United States Legation in France. Also includes a journal and photographs of a topographical mission to Utah in 1858-1859 by a descendent, William Lee (1841-1893).

Dates 1780-1932; Majority of material found within ( 1800-1860)
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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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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 Vans Murray Papers

Identifier: MSS34025
Abstract

Diplomat and United States representative from Maryland. Correspondence, diaries, and official documents pertaining to Murray’s diplomatic activities as minister to the Netherlands (1797-1801) and as minister plenipoteniary to France (1799-1800).

Dates 1778-1805; Majority of material found within ( 1797-1801)
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John G. Nicolay Papers

Identifier: MSS34736
Abstract

Presidential secretary and biographer. Correspondence, research notes, notebooks, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material documenting Nicolay's public career, particularly his tenure as secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and his numerous literary activities, including his works on Lincoln.

Dates 1811-1943; Majority of material found within 1860-1901
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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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Horace Porter Papers

Identifier: MSS36608
Abstract

Army officer, railroad official, and diplomat. Correspondence, diary, family papers, photographs, and speeches relating to Porter’s Civil War service, Ulysses S. Grant, Porter’s activities with the Pullman Company and the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad, the Union League, his interest in Republican Party politics, his role in the inaugural of William McKinley, and his service as United States ambassador to France.

Dates 1853-1922
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William C. Rives Papers

Identifier: MSS37937
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U.S. senator and representative from Virginia. Correspondence, journals, diaries, draft of Rives's incomplete "Life and Time of James Madison," and drafts of speeches, novels, and an unpublished autobiography by Rives. Includes papers of Thomas Walker (1715-1794), U.S. Army officer, guardian of Thomas Jefferson, physician, and explorer; and of Walker's son, Francis (1764-1806), U.S. representative and lawyer from Virginia.

Dates 1674-1939; Majority of material found within ( 1830-1890)