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Symmes, John Cleves, 1780-1829. Draper manuscripts: John Cleves Symmes papers, 1791-1846.

Title: Draper manuscripts: John Cleves Symmes papers, 1791-1846.

Papers of two men, an uncle and a nephew, bearing the same name. The elder John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) was a prominent political and military figure in New Jersey and later a judge, pioneer, and land developer in the Northwest Territory. The younger John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) was a military man and settler along the Mississippi River. The bulk of the collection deals with the younger Symmes and his work to promote his "concentric spheres" theory, which held that the earth was composed of concentric spheres with a habitable interior which could be entered at either pole.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (4 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787370 View

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841. Draper manuscripts: William Henry Harrison papers, 1811-1833.

Title: Draper manuscripts: William Henry Harrison papers, 1811-1833.

Papers concerning William Henry Harrison's service in the War of 1812, including copies of his reports to the secretary of war (1811-1813); original correspondence of Harrison (1812-1817) and others; Harrison's 1840 manuscript defending his conduct of the 1813 Thames campaign; engravings and drawings of Harrison; and a map of the Tippecanoe battleground. Harrison was governor of Indiana Territory (1800-1812), commander of the Army of the Northwest in the War of 1812, and much later president of the United States (1841).

ArchivalResource: 0.5 c.f. (5 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701722 View

Edwards, Ninian, 1775-1833. Ninian Edwards papers, 1798-1833.

Title: Ninian Edwards papers, 1798-1833.

Chiefly letters to Ninian Edwards, who was a U.S. Senator and a governor of Illinois, plus other papers relating to Illinois, Kentucky, and national politics, reflecting factional and individual political conflicts and local and national elections and administrations. Includes material on the presidential elections of 1824-1832, especially regarding John Calhoun and William Crawford; the Illinois gubernatorial elections of 1826-1830, with emphasis on William Kinney and John Reynolds; American Indian affairs, particularly the Potawatomis and the Wabash Saline; the Galena Advertiser; the Burr conspiracy; the War of 1812 in and around Illinois Territory; and the Black Hawk War. Contains references to John Quincy Adams, Daniel P. Cook, Andrew Jackson, Elias Kent Kane, and James Monroe. Correspondents include David Jewett Baker, Shadrach Bond, Sidney Breese, John Caldwell Calhoun, William Clark, Henry Clay, Daniel P. Cook, William Eustis, Alexander Pope Field, George Forquer, Albert Gallatin, Duff Green, Samuel D. Ingham, Rufus King, John McLean, James Monroe, John Pope, John Reynolds, Joseph Montfort Street, Hooper Warren, and William Wirt.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.2 microfilm reels : neg. ; 35 mm. (Camera negative).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715351618 View