Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection
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Manuscript Division
Causten-Pickett Papers
Identifier: MSS15420
Abstract
James H. Causten, businessman of Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., who worked to settle French spoliation claims; John T. Pickett, United States and Confederate diplomat and army officer, and lawyer of Washington, D.C.; and Pickett's son, Theodore John Pickett, lawyer of Washington, D.C., who succeeded to Causten's interest in the claims cases. Correspondence, insurance policies, powers of attorney, promissory notes, bills of exchange, American and French court records, ship case...
Dates
1765-1916; Majority of material found within ( 1797-1900)
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Manuscript Division
Henry Bartholomew Cox Collection
Identifier: MSS51987
Abstract
Professor of history. Correspondence and other material relating chiefly to French spoliation claims; and an autograph collection.
Dates
1492-1960; Majority of material found within ( 1792-1858)
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Manuscript Division
Andrew Jackson Donelson Papers
Identifier: MSS18721
Abstract
Lawyer, editor, army officer, diplomat, and presidential secretary. Correspondence, journals, draft messages of Andrew Jackson, diplomatic papers, newsclippings, scrapbook, sketches, photos, and other papers covering Donelson's career as aide-de-camp and secretary to Andrew Jackson, charge d'affaires to Texas, minister to Prussia, editor of the Washington Union, and candidate for vice president. Includes papers of Donelson's wife, Emily Tennessee Donelson,...
Dates
1779-1943; Majority of material found within 1813-1869
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Manuscript Division
Lovering-Taylor Family Papers
Identifier: MSS56382
Abstract
The Lovering-Taylor families of Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, business records, legal papers, biographical and genealogical material, clippings, printed material, and other papers chiefly of Joseph Taylor (1745(?)-1816), merchant and Loyalist, relating to business and trade during the Revolution, the Loyalist cause, mercantile insurance, and French spoliation claims. Other family members represented include William...
Dates
1727-1926; Majority of material found within ( 1776-1888)
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Manuscript Division
Henry Mason Morfit Papers
Identifier: MSS33431
Abstract
Lawyer. Correspondence and financial and business papers relating to Morfit's Washington, D.C., practice as a claims lawyer and as a political figure in the administrations of Andrew Jackson.
Dates
1819-1858; Majority of material found within ( 1844-1855)
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Manuscript Division
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)