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Hull, Isaac, 1773-1843. Papers, 1810-1842.

Title: Papers, 1810-1842.

This is the most extensive collection of documents relative to the career of Isaac Hull and his many years service in the U.S. Navy. The papers span the years 1810 to 1842 and include letters and letter-books, ledgers and account books, log books and ships papers, legal records and official reports, meteorological observations and sundry printed matter. Some of the more interesting documents were published in Commodore Hull: Papers of Isaac Hull (Boston, 1929). The bulk of the collection falls around 1840, during his period of service in the Mediterranean, when he had command of "Ohio," "Cyane," "Brandywine" and "Preble." Of great importance are the many letters from officials in Washington and U.S. consuls overseas, including William Tudor, Obadiah Rich and Hosea Sprague, which give a good account of political and military conditions at home and abroad. The papers, in sum, present a vivid picture of the development of the U.S. Navy during a critical period, beset by frequently hostile European forces and by suspicious bureaucrats in Washington, yet strengthened by the character, resolve and the organizational abilities of clear-minded sailors such as Commodore Hull. Also included in the collection are William Miller's account of the battle of Ayacucho (1825) and Bernardo O'Higgins' "To the virtuous inhabitants of the Archipelago of Chiloe" (1826).

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes + 16 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13087734 View

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Papers, 1800-1900 (bulk 1824-1852)

Title: Daniel Webster papers, 1800-1900

Lawyer, statesman, and diplomat; United States representative from New Hampshire and United States senator from Massachusetts. Correspondence, memoranda, notes and drafts for speeches, legal papers, invitations, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly dating from 1824 to 1852. Topics include Webster's law practices and cases heard before the United States Supreme Court, the Bank of the United States, diplomacy, national and state politics, slavery, and the Compromise of 1850.

ArchivalResource: 2,500 items; 16 containers; 4 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000013 View

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866. Letter, June 4, 1841.

Title: Letter, June 4, 1841.

Letter of SecNav Badger to CDR George C. Read, June 4, 1841, appointing him to the Board to examine Midshipmen at the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, PA.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17997250 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Letters to Matthew Calbraith Perry from various correspondents, 1799-1945.

Title: Letters to Matthew Calbraith Perry from various correspondents, 1799-1945.

Letters to American naval officer Matthew Perry, many pertaining to naval affairs.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00699/catalog View

Alden, Charles Henry, 1798 - 1846. Journal of Charles Henry Alden, 1841 - 1844.

Title: Journal of Charles Henry Alden, 1841 - 1844.

Personal journal that Charles Henry Alden kept while onboard of the Delaware. The journal, intended for his wife, consists of detalied and vivid accounts of the Delaware's voyages in South America and the Mediterranean, complete with watercolor and pencil illustrations, samples of the ship's logs, index and appendix consisting of clippings of Alden's newspaper articles. The manuscript opens with Alden's letter to his wife that recaps the events between his leaving home and the Delaware's departure for South America, followed by a copy of the letter from the Delaware officers to the departing Secretary of the Navy George Edmund Badger (Sep. 1841), an account of the day in port at Hampton Roads, and the detailed, illustrated description of the Delaware. The journal proper begins on p. 115. The entries include accounts of the life onboard; marine wildlife, encounters with other ships; an arrest of a slaver by the British Navy, sketches of South American landscape, sights, and peoples, including slaves; descriptions of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, including Alden's take on the revolution in Brazil, the battle of Arroyo Grande, and events leading to the Guerra Grande in Uruquay; and accounts of the Mediterranean, including Portugal, Spain, Minorca, and Italy.

ArchivalResource: 763 pages, 24.5 cm., bound volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/667916338 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Papers, 1800-1900 (bulk 1824-1852)

Title: Daniel Webster papers, 1800-1900

Lawyer, statesman, and diplomat; United States representative from New Hampshire and United States senator from Massachusetts. Correspondence, memoranda, notes and drafts for speeches, legal papers, invitations, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly dating from 1824 to 1852. Topics include Webster's law practices and cases heard before the United States Supreme Court, the Bank of the United States, diplomacy, national and state politics, slavery, and the Compromise of 1850.

ArchivalResource: 2,500 items; 16 containers; 4 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000013 View

[George E. Badger scrapbook].

Title: [George E. Badger scrapbook]. [bulk 1866-1891]

ArchivalResource: [30] leaves ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45302461 View

Bryan, William S. William S. Bryan papers, 1818-1879 (bulk 1848-1879) [manuscript].

Title: William S. Bryan papers, 1818-1879 (bulk 1848-1879) [manuscript].

Bryan's papers include some legal correspondence, including two from Roger B. Taney, but consist chiefly of letters from his family at Raleigh, N.C., in the 1850s, especially from his brother, Army officer Francis Theodore Bryan of Florida and Washington, D.C., and members of the Pettigrew and Battle families of North Carolina. Also included are political correspondence, 1818-1835 (26 items), and a personal account book of his father, John Heritage Bryan (1798-1870), Whig U.S. representative from North Carolina. Correspondents include William Gaston, Francis L. Hawks, Richard D. Spaight, George E. Badger, Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, and Nathaniel Macon.

ArchivalResource: 174 items (0.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25327452 View

Marshall, Matthias Murray, 1841-1912. Matthias Murray Marshall papers, 1823-1912.

Title: Matthias Murray Marshall papers, 1823-1912.

The collection includes personal, religious, and business correspondence and other papers of the Reverend Matthias Murray Marshall, chiefly while he was rector of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Raleigh, N.C., but also during his attendance at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Included are records, 1876-1879 and 1885-1892, of visits to parishioners; scrapbooks; and memorandum books, mainly relating to Christ Church. The early letters, 1824-1825, relate to a controversy between Professor Elisha Mitchell of UNC and Bishop John Stark Ravenscroft about religious doctrines and denominational influence at UNC. Other correspondents include Kemp Plummer Battle, Charles Manly, George E. Badger, Paul C. Cameron, Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr., Sallie M. Cameron, the Reverend E. A. Osborne, Thomas S. Kenan, and Jonathan Worth. Volumes include an 1861 daily diary that Marshall kept as a student at Trinity and at UNC and notes on a voyage from Baltimore, Md., to San Francisco, Calif., in 1883.

ArchivalResource: About 350 items (1.5 linear feet.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23658366 View

Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856. John MacPherson Berrien papers, 1778-1938.

Title: John MacPherson Berrien papers, 1778-1938.

Includes legal papers relative to the Florida-Georgia boundary controversy, 1851-1856; financial papers of a rice plantation and farm near Savannah and Clarksville, Ga., respectively; and correspondence (1830-1852) with men prominent in the Jackson administration and in Georgia politics. Also includes papers (1778-1786) relating to the military service during the Revolution of Berrien's father, John Berrien; Civil War letters from Robert Falligant in Virginia and Phil Falligant in Georgia; letter books; a receipt book; and a ledger. Correspondents include John Quincy Adams, George Edmund Badger, Thomas Hart Benton, Francis Preston Blair, Henry Clay, Howell Cobb, George W. Crawford, Hamilton Fish, Richard W. Habersham, James Hamilton, Jr., S. D. Ingram, Andrew Jackson, Alexander H. Stephens, George M. Troup, John Tyler, Daniel Webster, Thurlow Weed, and Richard Henry Wilde.

ArchivalResource: About 550 items (2.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22150846 View

Thomas Sparrow Papers, ., 1835-1871

Title: Thomas Sparrow Papers, . 1835-1871

Thomas Sparrow was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, and Confederate officer of Washington (Beaufort County), N.C. Antebellum papers include legal and political correspondence and letters to Thomas Sparrow from colleagues and constituents while he was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1858-1859. Correspondents include George E. Badger, David L. Swain, and John A. Stanly. There are references to several duels. Civil War papers, mostly 1861, include Sparrow's letters to his wife and a diary kept while he was captain of Company A, 7th North Carolina Infantry (the Washington Greys), defending the Outer Banks of North Carolina and in prison at Fort Coumbus, Governor's Island, New York Harbor, and Fort Warren, Boston, Mass. Also included are manuscript notes of an ordnance inspection of the Wilmington, N.C., defenses, 1863. Postwar items consist chiefly of a manuscript speech to freedmen, 1867, clippings about Sparrow's management of the impeachment trial of North Carolina governor W. W. Holden, 1871, and a full account of Sparrow's life.

ArchivalResource: 150; 0.5

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Sparrow,Thomas.html View

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866. George Edmund Badger letters, 1841, 1853, 1855, 1856.

Title: George Edmund Badger letters, 1841, 1853, 1855, 1856.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752306330 View

Badger family. Badger family papers, 1835-1888.

Title: Badger family papers, 1835-1888.

Chiefly family letters, 1835-1867. Letters dated 1835-1836 are to Melissa Williams, Delia Badger's daughter by a previous marriage, who was attending school in Philadelphia, from her mother and others in Raleigh, chiefly about family activities. Most of the later letters are to Badger's daughter Kate Badger Haigh of Fayetteville, N.C., about family and neighborhood news. Included are an 1849 letter with a description of 50 drunken women and other rowdies at a cotillion in Raleigh; Civil War period letters with details of life on the homefront, including mention of sickly and pregnant slaves; and an 1867 letter discussing the possibility of an African American candidate for mayor of Raleigh. Also included are financial and legal papers, 1876-1888, of Thomas Badger and a few family photographs.

ArchivalResource: About 40 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23591242 View

John J. Crittenden Papers, 1782-1913, (bulk 1841-1888)

Title: John J. Crittenden Papers 1782-1913 (bulk 1841-1888)

United States attorney general, United States senator, and governor of Kentucky. Chiefly correspondence and some legal papers, speeches, and state papers relating to Crittenden's career in politics and government.

ArchivalResource: 2,600 items; 30 containers; 5.2 linear feet; 14 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010181 View

Thomas Ruffin Papers, 1753-1898

Title: Thomas Ruffin Papers, 1753-1898

Thomas Ruffin, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, planter, and politician, served in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1813-1816; as judge of the Superior Court, 1816-1818; as reporter of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1820-1822; and as judge of the Superior Court in 1825-1828. Ruffin became president of the State Bank of North Carolina in1828. He was elected judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1829 and became chief justice in 1833. He served as chief justice until 1852 and again from 1858 to1859. Ruffin was president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, 1854-1860. He was a delegate to the Washington Peace Conference and to the North Carolina Secession Convention in 1861. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other papers of Thomas Ruffin, and correspondence and financial records of his father, Sterling Ruffin. Major topics are family concerns, especially relating to women; work on plantations in Rockingham, Caswell, and Alamance counties, N.C.; Ruffin's legal practice; borrowing and lending money; the State Bank; Ruffin's other business ventures, including a slave-trading partnership; and his brother's business in Alabama. There is considerable correspondence with merchants in Petersburg, Va., Hillsborough, N.C., and Fayetteville, N.C., about debt collection and legal business. Letters about national politics appear particularly around the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Also included are letters from two ofRuffin's sons who were officers in the Confederate army (5th North Carolina Infantry Regiment and 13th North Carolina Infantry Regiment), and letters about political and economic conditions in the Confederacy. There are letters as well from family members who were students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, 1813through the 1840s. Among the correspondents are Ruffin's father-in-law, William Kirkland; his sons-in-law, J. B. G. Roulhac and Paul Carrington Cameron; and friends and business associates, including Archibald De Bow Murphey, Duncan Cameron, and George Badger.

ArchivalResource: 26.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 19,000 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00641/ View

Waterman family papers, 1757-1954, 1757-1911

Title: Waterman family papers 1757-1954 1757-1911

The papers represent four generations of the Nehemiah Waterman family of Norwich, Connecticut. The principal figures are Elijah Waterman and his son Thomas Tileston Waterman, both Congregational ministers. The papers of Elijah Waterman consist of correspondence with other ministers, approximately 125 sermons, and histories of Woodstock, Pomfret, Lebanon and Hampton, Connecticut. The papers of Thomas Tileston Waterman also contain professional correspondence, sermons and religious publications. His wife, Delia Storrs Waterman's journals for the years ca.1848-1880, as well as essays, poetry and financial papers are included. There is also a series a scrapbooks kept by their son, Thomas Storrs Waterman with clippings and notes on politics, religion and history. General family correspondence, chiefly for the period 1795-1876, genealogical papers, photographs, financial documents, printed matter and memorabilia complete the collection.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 linear feet (13 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0793 View

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Letter, 1849 January 28, [Washington], to Mr. Ewing, [Washington].

Title: Letter, 1849 January 28, [Washington], to Mr. Ewing, [Washington].

Calls for a reunion of Harrison's cabinet since Ewing, Badger, Crittenden and Webster are present in Washington.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4259875 View

Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867. Alexander Dallas Bache Papers, 1821-1869

Title: Alexander Dallas Bache Papers, 1821-1869

The papers of Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) relate to his study of European education, his appointment as Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, his professional intercourse with other scientists on a broad range of topics, his own research, and his work on the United States Lighthouse Board. They include diaries, 1836-1837, of his study of educational institutions in Britain; correspondence, 1821-1866, documenting his European trip, his work on education during the years 1839-1841, and his contact with the American scientific community; small collections of papers concerning the Coast Survey, the Lighthouse Board, and the Smithsonian Institution; letters to his wife, Nancy Clarke Fowler Bache; and a small collection of posthumous papers.

ArchivalResource: 3.47 cu. ft. (5 document boxes) (3 half document boxes) (2 microfilm reels) (6 oversize folders)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217212 View

George Edmund Badger letters, 1841, 1853, 1855, 1856

Title: George Edmund Badger letters 1841, 1853, 1855, 1856

American jurist; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1841; U.S. Senator from North Carolina 1846-1855.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6847 View

U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Title: U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Consists of individual items acquiredseparately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety ofsources, relating to the United States. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 551 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1392 View

McGehee family. Polk, Badger, and McGehee family papers, 1790-1898 (bulk 1822-1898).

Title: Polk, Badger, and McGehee family papers, 1790-1898 (bulk 1822-1898).

The collection contains original documents and microfilm. Original documents consist letters written by members of the Polk, Badger, and McGehee families, particularly those of George Edmund Badger (1795-1866); his second wife, Mary Brown Polk Badger (1808-1835); their younger daughter, Sarah Polk Badger McGehee (1833-1903), also known as Sally; and Sally's husband, Montford McGehee (1822-1895). Polk materials consist of letters and poems by George Badger to Mary Polk Badger, beginning in 1825 during their courtship and married life, particularly when he was traveling for court business. Also included is a memorandum by Mary Badger written shortly before her death in 1835, giving instructions for the disposition of her keepsakes and heirlooms. Letters to Sally Badger begin in 1841 with letters primarily from her father. Beginning in 1859, there are letters to Sally from Montford McGehee. There is only one letter from 1863, and no papers for the years 1861-1862 or 1864-1869. The remainder of the material consists of a few scattered letters to and from friends, a poem titled "In Memoriam of Gen'l Leonidas Polk," a quotation from F. W. Robertson, and the envelopes that originally housed the correspondence. The microfilm includes other letters and two scrapbooks containing a number of newspaper obituaries. Among the microfilm-only materials are letters of Mary Brown Polk while at school in Philadelphia and of Sally Badger at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh. There are also 1862 letters of Montford McGehee during the Civil War when he served as aid to General James Johnson Pettigrew. He wrote from Richmond, Fredericksburg, and the Virginia Peninsula and during the retreat following the evacuation of Yorktown.

ArchivalResource: About 300 items (1.0 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25754281 View

Gaston, William, 1778-1844. William Gaston papers, 1744-1950 (bulk 1791-1844).

Title: William Gaston papers, 1744-1950 (bulk 1791-1844).

Papers include personal, business, and political correspondence, 1791-1844; law notes and other papers; notes, 1896-1915, of Judge Henry Groves Connor for his proposed biography of Gaston; and pictures. Topics include the Catholic Church in America; banks and banking; family life; national elections; preparations for war with France in 1800 and subsequent negotiations with France; financial affairs of the United States; anticipated effects upon the United States of the ending of the Napoleonic wars; Federalist Party strategies; legal matters concerning the outbreak of the War of 1812; the nullification controversy; proposals for the appropriation of public lands for the support of public education; internal improvements; life in West Florida in the 1830s; and an 1832 speech in Chapel Hill, N.C., in which Gaston condemned both the nullification scheme and the institution of slavery. Major correspondents include George E. Badger, John Fanning Burgwyn, Thomas Pollock Devereux, Robert Donaldson, Alexander Hamilton, Francis Joseph Kron, Willie Person Mangum, Matthias Manly, John Marshall, Thomas Ruffin, Marcus Cicero Stephens, David Lowry Swain, Roger B. Taney, and Daniel Webster.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1400 items (4.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23150586 View

National Archives And Records Administration. Rg 46: United States Senate.

Title: National Archives And Records Administration. Rg 46: United States Senate.

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Graham, William A. (William Alexander), 1804-1875. William A. Graham papers, 1750-1940.

Title: William A. Graham papers, 1750-1940.

William A. Graham's correspondence with prominent persons about state and national politics. Correspondents include George E. Badger, Thomas Bragg, T. W. Brevard, James Buchanan, Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron, Henry Clay, Dorothea L. Dix, Stephen A. Douglas, James Fenimore Cooper, William Gaston, James Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, W. W. Holden, Sam Houston, William Preston Mangum, Charles Manly, Matthias E. Manly, Elisha Mitchell, B. F. Moore, James T. Morehead, J. Johnston Pettigrew, J. L. Pettigru, Leonidas Polk, Thomas Ruffin, James A. Seddon, Cornelia Phillips Spencer, David L. Swain, William Tryon, Martin Van Buren, Zebulon B. Vance, Hugh Waddell, Daniel Webster, and Jonathan Worth. Also included is material relating to legal business; the Graham family;iron foundry; plantations, slavery, and overseers in North Carolina and South Carolina; affairs at the University of North Carolina, the Revolutionary War history of North Carolina, and letters from sons serving as soldiers in the Confederate army. Later papers are of other Graham family members, especially Augustus Washington Graham, lawyer of Hillsborough, N.C., and Oxford, N.C. Volumes are personal accounts, school notebooks, and legal notes. Also included are typed carbon copies of letters, 1823-1877, to and from William A. Graham in this collection and in collections at other repositories that were compiled for an editing project in the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: About 14000 items (12.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23150419 View

Manly Family Papers, 1782-1936 (bulk 1847-1870)

Title: Manly Family Papers, 1782-1936 (bulk 1847-1870)

Members of the Manly family of Wake County, N.C., included Charles Manly, governor of North Carolina, 1849-1851; his son, Basil Charles Manly, a lawyer who served as mayor of Raleigh, N.C.; and son-in-law George Badger Singeltary, lawyer of Greenville, N.C. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal items, military papers, estate papers, account books, genealogical material, and other items relating to the family of Charles Manly. Materials pertain to the daily lives and financial and legal interests of the Manly family, chiefly 1847-1870, with some material concerning military careers during the Mexican and Civil wars. Topics include Charles Manly's personal business and law practice; lives of students at the University of North Carolina in the 1850s, including seven student essays by William Henry Manly and one letter concerning the closing of the University in 1868; the lives of women on a plantation in Wake County, especially in the 1850s, including their relations with slaves; George Badger Singeltary's dishonorable discharge during the Mexican War and other aspects of Singeltary's life; activities of the 9th and 44th North Carolina regiments in the Civil War; and the estates of William H. Haywood Sr., James C. S. McDowell, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1350; 4.5

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Manly_Family.html View

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855,. Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Title: Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Letters, papers, portraits of Revolutionary and nineteenth century statesmen. Subjects dealt with in the letters include slavery, the currency question, agriculture, land grants, politics and government, the silver question, education, and religion.

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647893815 View

George Edmund Badger Papers, 1827-1864

Title: George Edmund Badger Papers, 1827-1864

George E. Badger, superior court judge, secretary of the Navy, and U.S. senator, 1844-1855, of Raleigh, N.C. Business papers of George E. Badger, including business letters, deeds, and receipts. The letters, 1829-1860, are from Badger to friends and associates concerning legal cases, politics, and general news. Included are seven letters, 1855-1860, from Badger to James Mandeville Carlisle (1814-1877), a Washington, D.C., lawyer with whom he formed a law partnership in the mid-1850s. Of particular interest is an 1849 letter to Badger from George Davis (1820-1896), who later served as attorney general of the Confederate States of America, and Frederick J. Hill (1792-1861), both of Wilmington, N.C., concerning the political appointment of the commander of the revenue boat for that city's port. Also of interest is a letter, also 1849, from Badger to Charles M. Butler, rector of Trinity Church (Episcopal), Washington, D.C., concerning Episcopal doctrinal controversies.

ArchivalResource: 37

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Badger,George_Edmund.html View

Thomas Ruffin Papers, 1753-1898

Title: Thomas Ruffin Papers, 1753-1898

Thomas Ruffin, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, planter, and politician, served in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1813-1816; as judge of the Superior Court, 1816-1818; as reporter of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1820-1822; and as judge of the Superior Court in 1825-1828. Ruffin became president of the State Bank of North Carolina in1828. He was elected judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1829 and became chief justice in 1833. He served as chief justice until 1852 and again from 1858 to1859. Ruffin was president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, 1854-1860. He was a delegate to the Washington Peace Conference and to the North Carolina Secession Convention in 1861. The collection includes correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other papers of Thomas Ruffin, and correspondence and financial records of his father, Sterling Ruffin. Major topics are family concerns, especially relating to women; work on plantations in Rockingham, Caswell, and Alamance counties, N.C.; Ruffin's legal practice; borrowing and lending money; the State Bank; Ruffin's other business ventures, including a slave-trading partnership; and his brother's business in Alabama. There is considerable correspondence with merchants in Petersburg, Va., Hillsborough, N.C., and Fayetteville, N.C., about debt collection and legal business. Letters about national politics appear particularly around the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Also included are letters from two ofRuffin's sons who were officers in the Confederate army (5th North Carolina Infantry Regiment and 13th North Carolina Infantry Regiment), and letters about political and economic conditions in the Confederacy. There are letters as well from family members who were students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, 1813through the 1840s. Among the correspondents are Ruffin's father-in-law, William Kirkland; his sons-in-law, J. B. G. Roulhac and Paul Carrington Cameron; and friends and business associates, including Archibald De Bow Murphey, Duncan Cameron, and George Badger.

ArchivalResource: 26.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 19,000 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00641/ View

Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857. Elisha Mitchell papers, 1816-1905.

Title: Elisha Mitchell papers, 1816-1905.

Family correspondence, scientific notes, manuscript articles, and sermons of Elisha Mitchell, for many years connected with the University of North Carolina. Mitchell's correspondence pertains to his varied religious, academic, and scientific activities, including mountain exploration in North Carolina. Among the correspondents are George E. Badger, William Gaston, Francis L. Hawkes, N.M. Hentz, William Hooper, Levi Silliman Ives, Archibald D. Murphy, James H. Otey, John Stark Ravenscroft, and David L. Swain. Included is correspondence with the North family of Mitchell's wife, Maria North Mitchell, in New Haven, Conn., and from the Mitchell children after they had married and moved to Salisbury, N.C., California, and Texas. Volumes include Mitchell's diary, 1813-1816, begun at Yale and kept irregularly while he was teaching at various places in the North, containing mainly religious reflections and slight personal comment; his private notebook, 1818-1847, containing miscellaneous comments on mathematics, musicology, electricity, the natural sciences, and history, and personal accounts and notes on reading and letters received. The diary, 1878, of Mitchell's grandson, J.N. Howard Summerell, on a voyage to Scotland; Mitchell's journal, letter book, and account book, 1818-1842; and "Diary of a Geological Tour by Professor Elisha Mitchell in 1827 and 1828 with Introduction and Notes" by Kemp P. Battle, published as part of the "James Sprunt Historical Monograph Series" by the University of North Carolina in 1905.

ArchivalResource: ca. 150 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23658466 View

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866. George Edmund Badger papers, 1827-1864.

Title: George Edmund Badger papers, 1827-1864.

Business papers of George E. Badger, including business letters, deeds, and receipts. The letters, 1829-1860, are from Badger to friends and associates concerning legal cases, politics, and general news. Included are seven letters, 1855-1860, from Badger to James Mandeville Carlisle (1814-1877), a Washington, D.C., lawyer with whom he formed a law partnership in the mid-1850s. Of particular interest is an 1849 letter to Badger from George Davis (1820-1896), who later served as attorney general of the Confederate States of America, and Frederick J. Hill (1792-1861), both of Wilmington, N.C., concerning the political appointment of the commander of the revenue boat for that city's port. Also of interest is a letter, also 1849, from Badger to Charles M. Butler, rector of Trinity Church (Episcopal), Washington, D.C., concerning Episcopal doctrinal controversies.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22979255 View

Gamble, Roger Lawson, 1787-1847. Roger Lawson Gamble letter, 1841.

Title: Roger Lawson Gamble letter, 1841.

This collection consists of a letter from Roger L. Gamble to George Edmund Badger, Secretary of the Navy, 1841, recommending James Henry Carter of Augusta as a midshipman in the Navy.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77536230 View

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866. Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, [N.C.], to unknown person, n.p., 1860 Sept. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, [N.C.], to unknown person, n.p., 1860 Sept. 23.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81207154 View

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866. Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, N.C., to William Carlisle, n.p., 1859 Jan. 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, N.C., to William Carlisle, n.p., 1859 Jan. 7.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (7 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78124723 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Bell, Edna Evans. Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia [manuscript] 1759 (1800-1898) 1968.

Title: Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia [manuscript] 1759 (1800-1898) 1968.

The collection contains correspondence of Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, Littleton Dennis Teackle, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle Quinby, Aaron Balderston Quinby, and Upshur Balderston Quinby with friends, family and business associates. They send news regarding family affairs and local events with a few references to national events, particularly the War of 1812. Of interest are the letterbook, 1805-1807, of Littleton D. Teackle detailing his eastern shore ship supply business, and Great Britain and West Indies trade, correspondence, 1837-1842, of Aaron B. Quinby regarding ship propellers and improved steamboat design, and letters regarding the contemplated construction of a railroad through the eastern shore in 1836. There are also letters, 1825 & 1843, from Henry Clay on paper money and the Whigs, a letter, 1826, from James Madison, on primary schools in Maryland, letters, 1840s, from Jese B. Quinby on English investment in the U.S., letters from Isaac Dashiell Jones and others to Daniel Webster recommending AB Quinby for a patent office job, letters of Upshur B. Quinby, 1860-61, from U. Va. describing Monticello and the University on the outbreak of war. The collection also contains recommendations and a legal opinion, 1877 and 1879, of John Barbee Minor, and U.B. Quinby's correspondence regarding Onancock Academy and his candidacy for the Eastern Shore Circuit Court Judgeship in the 1880s, and a letter, 1861, from Pittsfield, Mass. describing the death of Mrs. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Legal papers of A.B. and U.B. Quinby contain correspondence regarding debt collection, property claims, a Virginia Military District land claim and personal land holdings. Genealogical material includes charts, Bible records and correspondence regarding the related Andrews, Balderston, Cutler, Dennis, Little, Quinby, Revell, Richardson, Scarburgh, Stockley, Sturges, Teackle, Upshur, Walter, and West families. The collection also contains prayerbooks, commonplace books, law lecture notes from the U. Va., classes of J.B. Minor and James Philemon Holcombe, Onancock Academy fee & account books, farm and legal account books, an Accomack Co. court practise book, "My birthplace and my home, "1968, by Edna Evans Bell regarding Roanoke Island, N.C.,and two clippings concerning Upshur B. Quinby, 1881, 1898. Correspondents include Richard Lee Tuberville Beale, James Biddle, George Edmund Badger, Andrew Donaldson Campbell, Robert Thruston Hubard, Judge John M. Jeffries, the Rev. J.W. Hoffman of Monroe, Conn. James Kirke Paulding, Charles Stuart, and Henry Alexander Wise.

ArchivalResource: 2.8 ft. (1,300 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962675 View

Willie Person Mangum Papers, 1771-1906, (bulk 1771-1868)

Title: Willie Person Mangum Papers 1771-1906 (bulk 1771-1868)

Jurist and U.S. senator and representative from North Carolina. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, legal papers, genealogical material, financial papers, and printed matter concerning local, southern, and national politics, the Whig Party in the South, economic and social conditions in North Carolina, the Mangum plantation, and education of the Mangum children.

ArchivalResource: 5,000 items; 34 containers; 13.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013049 View

Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

Title: Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

The Lewis Cass papers contain the political and governmental letters and writings of Lewis Cass, American army officer in the War of 1812, governor and senator from Michigan, American diplomat to France, secretary of war in the Andrew Jackson administration, secretary of state under James Buchanan, and Democratic candidate for President. These papers span Cass' entire career and include letters, speeches, financial documents, memoranda, literary manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and a travel diary. In addition to documenting his political and governmental career, the collection contains material concerning relations between the United States and Native Americans, and Cass' role in presidential politics.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-372cas?rgn=main;view=text View

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866. George Edmund Badger correspondence, 1845-1856.

Title: George Edmund Badger correspondence, 1845-1856.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79449950 View

Mangum, Willie Person, 1792-1861. Papers, 1783-1861.

Title: Papers, 1783-1861.

Letters to Mangum from George E. Badger, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, W.C. Preston, and Daniel Webster, concerning state and national maneuvering of the Whig Party; legal papers, deeds, etc., revealing the Mangum ancestry; and a family Bible containing a list of children born to one of Mangum's slaves.

ArchivalResource: 143 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19902875 View

Haigh, William H. William H. Haigh papers, 1841-1846, 1865 [manuscript].

Title: William H. Haigh papers, 1841-1846, 1865 [manuscript].

Papers including the diary of William Hooper Haigh (1823-1870) of Fayetteville, N.C., while a student at the University of North Carolina, 1841-1842, in Chapel Hill, and studying law under George Edmund Badger in Raleigh, N.C., 1843-1844. Entries include comments on people and events in Haigh's life, including Raleigh and Chapel Hill social activities, the Methodist and Episcopal churches, and activities of the Badger family, and local, state, and national politics. Also included are two long letters, 1865, written by Haigh as a prisoner at Point Lookout, Md., describing prison conditions and routine.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25031599 View

Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

Title: Lewis Cass papers (1774-1924)

The Lewis Cass papers contain the political and governmental letters and writings of Lewis Cass, American army officer in the War of 1812, governor and senator from Michigan, American diplomat to France, secretary of war in the Andrew Jackson administration, secretary of state under James Buchanan, and Democratic candidate for President. These papers span Cass' entire career and include letters, speeches, financial documents, memoranda, literary manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and a travel diary. In addition to documenting his political and governmental career, the collection contains material concerning relations between the United States and Native Americans, and Cass' role in presidential politics.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-372cas?rgn=main;view=text View

Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866. Papers, 1799-1861.

Title: Papers, 1799-1861.

Personal and business letters. Most letters are to Thomas Mandeville Carlisle concerning family and business matters, especially a disagreement between the Postmaster General and the railroads. A letter to R.B. Temple refers to Zachary Taylor's election. Also includes a commonplace book of Frances L. Badger containing original poetry.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19210832 View