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Davis, David, 1815-1886. David Davis papers, 1815-1964 (bulk 1815-1886).

Title: David Davis papers, 1815-1964 (bulk 1815-1886).

Primarily copies of correspondence, legal documents, speeches, pamphlets, and newsclippings relating to Davis family matters or to Davis's career as a lawyer; a judge in the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, 1848-1862; Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1862-1877; and U.S. Senator, 1877-1883. Most materials were collected by Willard L. King while writing a biography of Davis. Also present are a few original Davis items plus correspondence, prepublication manuscript, and reviews relating to King's book, 1950s-1964. Topics of the Davis materials include social and economic conditions in Illinois; life in Bloomington, Ill., and family affairs; political parties, especially the Whig and Republican parties, nationally and in Illinois; presidential campaigns and elections (1856-1876); Mormons in Illinois; the Mexican War; Davis's circuit-riding relationship with Lincoln, his riding partner; the antislavery movement; the rivalry between Norman B. Judd and John Wentworth; the Lincoln-Douglas debates; newspaper activities in Missouri and Chicago during the 1860s; the Civil War and particularly Missouri during the war; Davis as the administrator of Lincoln's estate; and the selection of a successor to Chief Justice Chase. Correspondents include Davis's wife Sarah Walker Davis and his son George Perrin Davis, Orville Browning, Ambrose E. Burnside, Simon Cameron, Aaron Lucius Chapin, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, Henry Winter Davis, Theophilus Lyle Dickey, Stephen A. Douglas, Ninian Edwards, Jesse W. Fell, John C. Fremont, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, John J. Hardin, James Harlan, Ozias M. Hatch, Rutherford B. Hayes, John F. Henry, William H. Herndon, Joseph Holt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Norman B. Judd, Ward Hill Lamon, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas Lincoln, Stephen T. Logan, J.E. McClure, Joseph Medill, Lambdin P. Milligan, Richard J. Oglesby, William W. Orme, Ebenezer Peck, Julius Rockwell, Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, Caleb Smith, Edwin M. Stanton, John T. Stuart, Noah H. Swayne, Leonard Swett, Samuel J. Tilden, Samuel H. Treat, Lyman Trumbull, John P. Usher, Clement L. Vallandigham, Elihu B. Washburne, Thurlow Weed, Gideon Welles, John Wentworth, Horace White, Henry Clay Whitney, and Richard Yates. Correspondence about an autobiography by Davis is filed in box 1, but a copy of the autobiography is not present. This autobiography was owned by J. Grant Burke of Washington, D.C. ca. 1975.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712673728 View

Swayne, Noah Haynes, 1804-1884. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Clinton Rice, 1878 Nov. 5.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Clinton Rice, 1878 Nov. 5.

Declining to purchase a picture.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270579131 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

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. Letter : New York, to W.P. Mellen, n.p., 1864 Oct. 19.

Title: Letter : New York, to W.P. Mellen, n.p., 1864 Oct. 19.

Autograph letter signed. Greeley writes that Ira Harris, who has the support of Abraham Lincoln, would like to be Chief Justice. He also writes that Govenor [William] Dennison would rather Noah Swayne be Chief Justice.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82159875 View

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873. Letters.

Title: Letters. 1825-1873.

Letters written while a student at Dartmouth College, noting religious life at college, etc.; letters to B.F. Wade, Caleb Smith, W.T. Coggeshall, et al. on Ohio and national politics, 1840-1868; letters to B.F. Flanders on military government of Louisiana, 1863-4 and related financial matters; letters to Asa Dodge Smith and O.P. Hubbard relating to Dartmouth College Affairs and conferral of honorary degree on Judge Swayne.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7126092 View

Portrait file: Guide.

Title: Portrait file: Guide.

The Portrait File is an alphabetically arranged collection of portait images of individuals, groups of individuals, and views and miscellany, received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01675/catalog View

Benjamin Helm Bristow Papers, 1839-1932, (bulk 1874-1896)

Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow Papers 1839-1932 (bulk 1874-1896)

Army officer, lawyer, United States secretary of the treasury, and solicitor general. Correspondence, speeches, biographical material, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, other printed material, and photographs relating primarily to Bristow's service as solicitor general and secretary of the treasury in the administrations of Ulysses S. Grant and to his New York City law firm. Includes a letterpress book of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the commissioner of internal revenue concerning the whiskey frauds of 1875.

ArchivalResource: 16,000 items; 20 containers; 7.2 linear feet

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Thomas Ewing Family Papers, 1757-1941, (bulk 1815-1896)

Title: Thomas Ewing Family Papers 1757-1941 (bulk 1815-1896)

Correspondence, diaries, journals, legal files, military records, speeches and writings, reports, notes, autographs, scrapbooks, biographical material, commonplace books, financial records, genealogies, photographs, printed matter, and maps pertaining to members of the Ewing family including Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), senator from Ohio and cabinet member; Thomas Ewing (1829-1896), Union general during the Civil War and congressman from Ohio; Ellen Ewing Sherman and her husband, William T. Sherman, Civil War general; and Thomas Ewing (1862-1942), lawyer, writer, and patent commissioner.

ArchivalResource: 94,000 items; 303 containers plus 11 oversize; 123.2 linear feet

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Swayne, Noah Haynes, 1804-1884. Noah Haynes Swayne signature, 1873 August 4.

Title: Noah Haynes Swayne signature, 1873 August 4.

Signature of Justice Swayne.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980563 View

Lucas, Robert, 1781-1853. Papers 1810-1837.

Title: Papers 1810-1837.

Army officer, State legislator, and Governor of Ohio, and Governor of Iowa Territory. Chiefly correspondence and official reports from Lucas' term as Governor of Ohio (1832-36), including letters of recommendation, petitions for patronage and pardons, resignations, and material on militia, national roads, Indian affairs, and Ohio-Michigan boundary disputes, together with limited personal correspondence relating to military assignments and land transactions. Contact repository for more information.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6007840 View

Swayne, Noah Haynes, 1804-1884. Letter to John William Wallace, 1868.

Title: Letter to John William Wallace, 1868.

Swayne writes to Wallace, inquiring after his health.

ArchivalResource: 1 folded sheet (1 p.) ; 20.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234337881 View

Dunn, Arthur Wallace, 1859-1926. Arthur Wallace Dunn papers, 1882-1927.

Title: Arthur Wallace Dunn papers, 1882-1927.

Correspondence, chiefly concerning Dunn's newspaper writings and books, from various members of congress and presidents Warren G. Harding, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson; and family papers, including correspondence and scrapbooks of James Hall McKenney, clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court (1880-1913). McKenney's correspondents include Supreme Court justices Joseph P. Bradley, Stephen Johnson Field, Stanley Matthews, Edward John Phelps, and Noah Haynes Swayne.

ArchivalResource: 250 items.2 containers plus 1 oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78378423 View

Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

Swayne, Noah Haynes, 1804-1884. Correspondence to Henry Charles Lea, 1879.

Title: Correspondence to Henry Charles Lea, 1879.

Comprises letters to Lea and a printed poem composed by Swayne in honor of his wife, Sarah Ann Swayne (1881).

ArchivalResource: 6 items (6 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63556732 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

Williams, Micajah Terrell, 1792-1844. Papers, 1741,1802-1906.

Title: Papers, 1741,1802-1906.

Banker, State legislator, and canal commissioner, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Correspondence, accounts, briefs, receipts, statements, and other papers, chiefly relating to Williams' activities as canal commissioner, including material on building, operations, costs, and effects of canals. Family and business correspondence pertains to the Western Spy (newspaper), soap and candle-making, land transactions and real estate, banking, politics, and public improvements.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic feet.

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Letters to James Bradley Thayer from various correspondents, 1778-1895.

Title: Letters to James Bradley Thayer from various correspondents, 1778-1895.

Letters to American lawyer and Harvard Law School professor James Bradley Thayer from Ralph Waldo Emerson and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00675/catalog View

Stephen Johnson Field Letters Addressed to Him, 1862-1896

Title: Stephen Johnson Field Letters Addressed to Him, 1862-1896

Many of the letters, written when Field was serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, comment on Court decisions and Field's opinions. A few letters, dated earlier, are not addressed to Field.

ArchivalResource: Number of containers: 1 box

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