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David Ames Wells Papers, 1795-1898, (bulk 1860-1886)

Title: David Ames Wells Papers 1795-1898 (bulk 1860-1886)

Economist, author, and public official. Correspondence, printed material, writings, and other papers concerning economics, with particular emphasis on taxation, the tariff, and free trade.

ArchivalResource: 9,000 items; 24 containers; 6 linear feet; 9 microfilm reels

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Hubbard Family Papers, 1639-1925, (bulk 1830-1897)

Title: Hubbard Family Papers 1639-1925 (bulk 1830-1897)

Chiefly correspondence supplemented by diaries, notes, drawings, poems, speeches and writings, and printed material of various members of the Hubbard family and their relatives, primarily Gardiner G. Hubbard, his wife, Gertrude Mercer McCurdy Hubbard , father, Samuel Hubbard, and father-in-law, Robert Henry McCurdy. Includes material relating to Gardiner Hubbard's interest in the education of the deaf, the Caledonia Mines, ranching in Washington state, and the development of the Bell telephone system in Europe; also includes papers relating to Robert Henry McCurdy's activities during the Civil War, especially with the Union Defence Committee in New York.

ArchivalResource: 7,500 items; 19 containers plus 1 oversize; 7.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012170 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Nicolay" to "Palmer".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Nicolay" to "Palmer".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122529625 View

David Ames Wells Papers, 1795-1898, (bulk 1860-1886)

Title: David Ames Wells Papers 1795-1898 (bulk 1860-1886)

Economist, author, and public official. Correspondence, printed material, writings, and other papers concerning economics, with particular emphasis on taxation, the tariff, and free trade.

ArchivalResource: 9,000 items; 24 containers; 6 linear feet; 9 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008122 View

Martin, James Joseph, 1916-. James Joseph Martin papers, 1906-2002.

Title: James Joseph Martin papers, 1906-2002.

The James Joseph Martin papers contain correspondence (1932-1969), personal papers (1934-1950), interviews of Martin (1932-1969), articles by Martin (1945-1966), student papers about Harry Elmer Barnes, (1950s-1960s), scrapbook relating to the revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes (1950s-1960s), photographs (no date), and printed material (1922-2002). There are also files on an original manuscript by William Orton (1906-2002) and books written by James J. Martin (1964-1984).

ArchivalResource: 6.83 cubic ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57190444 View

William E. Chandler Papers, 1863-1917

Title: William E. Chandler Papers 1863-1917

United States secretary of the navy, senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. Principally bound volumes of correspondence documenting Chandler's activities as assistant secretary of the treasury, 1865-1867, secretary of the navy, 1882-1885, United States Senator from New Hampshire, 1887-1901, and chairman of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, 1901-1908. Includes material reflecting Chandler's prominence in the Republican Party and his role in the presidential campaigns of 1868 and 1872, in the disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden, and in the campaign for president in 1880.

ArchivalResource: 25,000 items; 167 containers; 36 linear feet

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Orton, William, 1826-1878. Letter to David Ames Wells, n.d.

Title: Letter to David Ames Wells, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79478894 View

Hillyer, William Silliman, 1831-1874. Papers of William Silliman Hillyer, 1822 (1861-1874) 1931, [manuscript].

Title: Papers of William Silliman Hillyer, 1822 (1861-1874) 1931, [manuscript].

Correspondence, military papers, speeches, photographs, printed material and memorabilia. Military papers of Hillyer include district provost marshall reports; special and general orders of Grant, Sherman, Hillyer and others, especially one of congratulations on Port Gibson; passes; accounts; oaths of allegiance; and a receipt for Ulric Dahlgren's ring. Correspondence of Hillyer, his parents, children, and Grant chiefly pertains to the Civil War. There are discussions of the secession riots in St. Louis, and Grant's "Jew Order" of Dec. 17, 1862; a denial of Grant's drunkeness at Ft. Donelson; references to various services by blacks; and descriptions of the battles of Iuka, Holly Springs, Campbell's Station and Chickamauga, and of the Chattanooga campaign. Of unusual interest are a signed copy of Grant's letter to Simon B. Buckner demanding unconditional surrender at Ft. Donelson; a draft of a letter from Grant to Henry Halleck asking either relief from Command or full restoration to it; a letter of Grant's discussing his plans for the Vicksburg campaign; and a photocopy of Robert E. Lee's April 9, 1865, letter asking for a suspension of hostilities with a forwarding note by E.O.C. Ord mentioning Sheridan. Other Civil War papers concern a Union Army scout; a claim from a spy near Richmond who supplied information for Hugh Kilpatrick's Rappahannock raid; the military service of John H.H. Ward; the Senate investigation of George K. Leet; Hillyer's connection with Mann's Accoutrement Manufacturing Company; and a reunion of the Army of the Tennessee. Hillyer family letters include considerable correspondence between Anna Rankin Hillyer and Julia Dent Grant; and correspondence of Hillyer's father from Henderson, Ky., 1825-1833. There are impressions of a Mississippi voyage to New Orleans, 1834; Lafayette College, 1842; a temperance speech by Richard Johnson, 1842; Washington, D.C., 1868-1869, including Grant's inauguration, and visits to Johnson, Grant, and Hancock; and Sewanee and the University of the South, 1873. Additional items of interest include an 1870 letter from Horace Greeley mentioning Hillyer's Congressional nomination; a lampoon of Lew Wallace; and an account of how New York Daily News reporter Benjamin Wood scooped the news of Andrew Johnson's acquittal.

ArchivalResource: ca. 640 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821186 View