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Slidell, John, 1793-1871. John Slidell letters and miscellany, 1844-1861.

Title: John Slidell letters and miscellany, 1844-1861.

Letters and miscellany of John Slidell includes a large sequence of photocopied letters to James Buchanan, secretary of state under James Polk and U.S. president from 1857 to 1861. The letters describe Slidell's work as minister to Mexico; the progress of the Mexican-American War; the fate of the Wilmot Proviso, an appropriations bill intended for final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War, in the U.S. Congress; James Buchanan's efforts to secure the Democratic nomination for president in 1856; the Ostend Manifesto, which proposed the purchase of Cuba from Spain in order to extend slavery there; and Slidell's mordantly contemptuous views of President Franklin Pierce and his other political enemies. Among those mentioned in the correspondence are Pierre Soulé, President Martin Van Buren, Stephen Douglas, Henry Johnson, and Thomas Hart Benton. Also included are a group of original letters from Slidell to various correspondents. They include a brief note, dated 1844, presenting Slidell's respects to Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and asking about a vacancy at the consulate at Matamoros, Mexico, for one of his constituents; a letter, dated 1852, discussing the release of John Sidney Thrasher from a Spanish prison; an 1853 letter to Jefferson Davis regarding Pierre Soulé; a letter, dated 1857, to Jacob Thompson, secretary of the interior, concerning Indian Bureau advertisements and their possible publication in the Daily Orleanian and the Louisiana Courier; and a letter, also dated 1857, to Asbury Dickens requesting the proceedings of the court martial of Lieutenant Colonel John Charles Frémont. Other letters include a note, dated 1857, to Asbury Dickens commenting on the condition of the money market in New Orleans; a letter to J.G. Davidson, dated 1858, concerning the debate over the reappointment of William McCullogh as surveyor general of Louisiana and allegations that McCullogh is no longer loyal to the Democratic Party; and a letter written from Paris in 1862 to Judah P. Benjamin recommending a former French army officer for Confederate military service.

ArchivalResource: 146 letters.1 engraving.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318102272 View

Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 1818-1883. Edward Otho Cresap Ord papers, 1840-1887.

Title: Edward Otho Cresap Ord papers, 1840-1887.

Contains professional correspondence with other U.S. military and government officials including U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, General Horace Porter, and General U.S. Grant. Correspondence covers the gold rush and frontier years, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, Indian Wars, "Negro's" in the military, the Nebraska Grasshopper disaster of the 1870s and the Mexician Railroad construction. Also contains accounts from different assignments including the U.S. Coast Survey in the 1850s. Also contains diagrams and letters pertaining to inventions of E.O.C. Ord, including a "flying machine", and a U.S. Patent award, No. 27,147 for an artillery improvement. Also includes a biographical sketch of E.O.C. Ord's life and career, his passport to Mexico, and personal correspondence with family members including father James Ord, brothers Dr. James L. Ord, Robert "Bob" Ord, and wife Mary "Molly" Ord. U.S. Patent award, No. 27,147. Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 1860. Ribbon bound legal documents volume (6 p., 52 x 38 cm) consisting of an official printed United States Patent Office award form filled in with manuscript descriptions of the patent and applicant information, two drawings on linen tracing paper, and a manuscript description of the patent written and signed by Ord when he was a captain in the U.S. Artillery. The patent office form is signed by the Secretary of the Interior, Jacob Thompson, and the Acting Commisioner of Patents, S. T. Shugert, and has a green paper embossed seal of the Patent Office affixed. The manuscript text signed by Ord is further signed by two witnesses from the 3rd Artillery, Lieutenant J. W. Patton and Second Lieutenant Alex Piper. The patent is for "...a new and useful [Application of gunpowder to flat projectiles, giving them rotation]..."

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 1 portfolio, 1 oversize folder (0.85 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50012567 View

Secretary of State boundary records, 1837-1843, 1858-1860, 1873-1877, 1882, 1885-1887, 1911, undated

Title: Secretary of State boundary records 1837-1843, 1858-1860, 1873-1877, 1882, 1885-1887, 1911, undated

In 1837, the Congress of the Republic of Texas authorized the President to appoint a commissioner to act with a commissioner to be appointed by the United States to survey the eastern boundary of Texas; in 1838, the Congress ratified a Convention between the two nations providing for such a survey. The boundary commission finished its work in 1841. In 1854, the Texas legislature agreed to cooperate with a United States Commission to define the northern and western boundaries of Texas. These records consist of correspondence, reports, vouchers, and abstracts of account of the Texas Boundary Commissioners and of the United States Commissioner. Dates covered are 1837-1843, 1858-1860, 1873-1877, 1882, 1885-1887, 1911, and undated.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft.

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Thompson family. Thompson family papers, 1809-1924 [manuscript].

Title: Thompson family papers, 1809-1924 [manuscript].

The collection is chiefly Thompson and Malone family letters and financial and legal materials, especially indentures and other items relating to land acquisition and sales. Goodloe Malone's account book lists about seventy names and ages of slaves in Mississippi. Also included are a few Civil War letters to Joseph N. Thompson during his captivity, and writings of three family members, including the Cockrill family genealogy, written by Granville Goodloe around 1898; Lucie Blackwell Malone Thompson's autobiographical sketch about her childhood in Alabama and Civil War days, which she spent at Salem Academy, Winston-Salem, N.C.; and reminiscences by Joseph N. Thompson, chiefly about his Civil War experiences in the 35th Alabama Infantry Regiment. There are no materials in the collectio relating to Jacob Thompson's public career.

ArchivalResource: About 150 items (0.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24250529 View

Black, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Sullivan), 1810-1883. Jeremiah Sullivan Black Papers, 1813-1894 (inclusive), 1842-1884 (bulk), [microform].

Title: Jeremiah Sullivan Black Papers

The papers consist of correspondence, a ledger, scrapbooks, and other papers of statesman Jeremiah Sullivan Black, U.S. Attorney General, 1857-1860 and Secretary of State, 1860-1861. Among the subjects discussed are events in Kansas before the Civil War, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, the Credit Mobilier scandal, the trial of Jefferson Davis, and Black's efforts on behalf of Clement Claiborne Clay and Jacob Thompson. Much of the correspondence is that of Black's son Chauncey Forward Black and includes his letters concerning Ward Hill Lamon's The Life of Abraham Lincoln and letters written by Samuel Jackson Randall concerning Pennsylvania politics. Included among the prominent correspondents are Edwin McMasters Stanton, James Buchanan, Thomas Francis Bayard, Montgomery Blair, Caleb Cushing, James Abram Garfield, Joseph Holt, and Reverdy Johnson.

ArchivalResource: 36 reels

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/615124 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View

Castleman, John Breckinridge, 1841-1918. John Breckinridge Castleman collection, 1854-1911.

Title: John Breckinridge Castleman collection, 1854-1911.

The Castleman papers mainly consist of correspondence. Some letters, collected by Castleman, were written by, to, and about Confederate agents in Canada during the Civil War. One letter contains an account of a visit to Captain John Y. Beall before his execution. Other Confederate correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Clement C. Clay, Jefferson Davis, Jacob Thompson, and Bennett H. Young. Later correspondence addresses Kentucky politics and the Kentucky Militia's service in Texas in 1836-1837. The collection also includes a brief article by Castleman entitled "The Kentucky Mounted Gun Men and the Sabine War."

ArchivalResource: .33 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76258552 View

Jacob Thompson ledger, 1800-1810

Title: Jacob Thompson ledger 1800-1810

Ledger kept by Jacob Thompson for his general store in Holland, Massachusetts from 1800 to 1810. Contains prices for sugar, rum, pepper, ginger, molasses, flax, leather, dishes, and other items. Accounts are signed by both Thompson and customers, and some loose accounts are inserted

ArchivalResource: .08 linear foot (1 volume)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2978 View

Edmundson, Henry Alonzo, 1814-1890. Autograph letter signed : Washington City, to Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, 1857 Mar. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington City, to Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, 1857 Mar. 11.

Recommending the appointment of Fayette McMullin as Marshal of the District of Columbia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270743013 View

Floyd, John Buchanan, 1806-1863. Letter signed "War Department" : to J. Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, 1859 Dec. 10.

Title: Letter signed "War Department" : to J. Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, 1859 Dec. 10.

Concerning payment of fees to C. C. Rogers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Speech, 1847 January 9.

Title: Speech, 1847 January 9.

A printed copy of a speech delivered by United States Congressman Jacob Thompson from Mississippi to the House of Representatives. Thompson's opinions on military matters relating to the War with Mexico and slavery in newly acquired territory are included in the speech.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15799303 View

James William Denver papers and diary, 1839-1912; 1850

Title: James William Denver papers and diary 1839-1912; 1850

Papers of James William Denver from 1839-1912. Includes a diary dated May 20, 1850-September 5, 1850, with miscellaneous notes.

ArchivalResource: 364 items; 1 volume, 63p. (16cm)

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/7167235532 View

Letterbook, 1858-1862.

Title: Letterbook, 1858-1862.

Clark describes the operations of the survey, the difficulty encountered in the waterless desert, the constant fear of attacks by Kiowas and Comanches, and the many conflicts between the United States and Texas commissions.

ArchivalResource: 193 p.; 33 cm.

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3150816 View

Jeremiah S. Black Papers, 1813-1904, (bulk 1856-1880)

Title: Jeremiah S. Black Papers 1813-1904 (bulk 1856-1880)

Lawyer, public official of Pennsylvania, United States attorney general, and United States secretary of state. Correspondence, legal files, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, family papers, and other papers relating primarily to various legal matters in which Black was involved.

ArchivalResource: 10,070 items; 80 containers; 34 linear feet; 36 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001039 View

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866. Letters, 1817, 1833.

Title: Letters, 1817, 1833.

1817 letter to Jacob Thompson introduces Colonel McKnight; 1833 letter to Tristam Burges refuses to interfere in the case of James Whippey seeking a discharge from the army.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28165665 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Letter signed : "Department of the Interior," to J.S. Black, Attorney General, 1857 Dec. 17.

Title: Letter signed : "Department of the Interior," to J.S. Black, Attorney General, 1857 Dec. 17.

Asking him to certify a land title for property bought from the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270572137 View

Collection of Judah P. Benjamin, undated, 1838, 1854-1884, 1893, 1925, 1930, 1942, 1948, 1854-1884

Title: Collection of Judah P. Benjamin undated, 1838, 1854-1884, 1893, 1925, 1930, 1942, 1948 1854-1884

Judah P. Benjamin, called the "brains of the Confederacy", was a statesman and jurist in the United States, the Confederate States, and Great Britain who achieved high-ranking titles wherever he served, and especially left an indelible mark in the South where he held more official positions than any other man during the Civil War. After the fall of the Confederacy, Benjamin fled to England, where he was admitted to the English bar, and later assumed a judgeship In 1872, he was appointed the highest ranking of Queen's counselor. Containing correspondence, letters, newspaper clippings, Confederate bank notes and bonds, Civil War memorabilia, pamphlets, and a bound copy of Benjamin's diary from 1862-1864, the collection is valuable to researchers studying the activities and experiences of Jews in the antebellum South and under the brief reign of the Confederate States of America. Additionally, through the material relating to memorials and preservation endeavors for Benjamin, the collection also provides a look at the continued glorification of Confederate heroes in the South long into the twentieth century. The collection also contains pre-Civil War correspondence between Benjamin and Peter A. Hargous regarding the creation of a railroad line on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico and the Tehuantepec Railroad Company of New Orleans.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear feet (1 manuscript box, 1 ½ manuscript box, 2 oversized folders)

http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109168 View

New York State Library. Manuscripts and Special Collections Unit. Autographs of American authors and statesmen collection, ca.1770-1865.

Title: Autographs of American authors and statesmen collection, ca.1770-1865.

A large collection of manuscripts gathered by the State Library for their value as autographed documents. Included are letters, receipts, orders and other documents bearing the signature of the author or political figure who appears on the listing below.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122617512 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. ALS, 1865 October 9 : Paris, to J.S. Black.

Title: ALS, 1865 October 9 : Paris, to J.S. Black.

Thompson, a Mississippi politician, was Secretary of the Interior in Buchanan's administration. He joined the Confederacy and served in the army and was a secret agent in Canada. Suspected of involvement in Lincoln's assassination he remained outside the U.S. at the war's end. In this letter to Black, a Pennsylvania, who had also served in Buchanan's cabinet he expresses some of the emotions and political views of a defeated Confederate in exile.

ArchivalResource: 8 p. ; 20.5 x 13.3 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23867399 View

Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896. Charles Carleton Coffin papers, 1861-1890.

Title: Charles Carleton Coffin papers, 1861-1890.

Thirty-seven addresses or book chapters by Coffin on patriotic and historical subjects, ca. 1870-1890, and souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War consisting of Confederate papers found in the streets of Richmond April 3, 1865. The Civil War material includes appointments for 3 officers; copy of General Beauregards letter of resignation; copies of reports including casualty reports from Marmadukes raid into Missouri and the defense of James Island in Charleston Harbor, 16-20 June 1862; letters to Col. Frances Henney Smith, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute; correspondence between Generals Robert E. Lee and Henry W. Halleck on alleged Union atrocities; and some material on provisions for prisoners of war in Richmond. There are misc. CSA government documents like an 1863 annual report from the office of the Secretary of War and Treasury Department documents along with misc. state governments documents such as the resolutions passed at a meeting of the citizens of Amelia County, VA on 23 February 1865. There is a small group of letters sent to Jefferson Davis, his wife, and Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of War. Correspondents include Clement Claiborne Clay, Thomas F. Drayton; S. Bassett French, Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Virginia McLaurine Mosby, Jacob Thompson, and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker. There is also a group of 345 letters sent to VA governors John Letcher and William Smith; 53 letters sent between Confederate soldiers from VA and their families; correspondence sent to Edward J. Harden, a GA Superior Court Judge; a collection of poetry and letters contributed to the Richmond Examiner, Richmond Sentinel and Savannah Morning News concerning problems in the army and civilian life; and correspondence (bulk 1857) sent to Ziba Oakes, a Charleston slaver trader.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64665331 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Letter, December 28, 1860.

Title: Letter, December 28, 1860.

Letter to a Baltimore, Maryland firm about sending a draft for payment drawn by the U.S. agent for liberated Africans at Monrovia, Liberia.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/690959906 View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Letter, 1861, January 2, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., to Librarian of Brown University, Providence, R.I.

Title: Letter, 1861, January 2, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., to Librarian of Brown University, Providence, R.I.

Form letter forwarding a set of the Annals of Congress.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122491369 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Letter : Washington, [D.C.], to Riggs & Co., Washington, [D.C.], 1857 July 9.

Title: Letter : Washington, [D.C.], to Riggs & Co., Washington, [D.C.], 1857 July 9.

July 9, 1857, letter from Interior Secretary Thompson, in his capacity as trustee for the Indian tribes, to the Washington banking firm of Riggs & Co., directing the investment of $64,000 in Cherokee funds stemming from the treaty of 1835, and $414,000 in Delaware funds under the treaty of 1854.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40358542 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, D.C., 1858 Jun. 9.

Title: Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, D.C., 1858 Jun. 9.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270572144 View

Bagg, John Sherman, 1807-1876. Papers of John Sherman Bagg, 1835-1876.

Title: Papers of John Sherman Bagg, 1835-1876.

Correspondence primarily relating to Michigan politics and the Democratic party, including material on boundary disputes, statehood, land speculation, tariffs, westward movement, etc.; state and national elections, with particular emphasis on Democratic conventions; Indian affairs, U.S. postal service in Michigan, and the National Census of 1860. Also included are a few documents, and an engraved portrait of John Sherman Bragg.

ArchivalResource: 482 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122443486 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Papers, 1859, 1861.

Title: Papers, 1859, 1861.

Letters, one being a routine letter signed by Thompson while secretary of the interior (1859) and the other, a protest from Thompson to President Buchanan against reinforcing Fort Sumter.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41395615 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Letter : [Washington], D.C., to Robert J. Walker, [Washington, D.C.], 1846 Mar. 23.

Title: Letter : [Washington], D.C., to Robert J. Walker, [Washington, D.C.], 1846 Mar. 23.

Autograph letter signed. Signed by Thompson, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, addressed to Robert J. Walker, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Address is included.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52248555 View

Weller, John B., 1812-1875. Autograph letter signed : San Francisco, to Jacob Thompson, 1860 Sept. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed : San Francisco, to Jacob Thompson, 1860 Sept. 15.

Recommending Mr. Poindexter as United States Marshal for the Southern District of California, and predicting that Breckinridge will carry that state.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270588289 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

Bocock, Thomas S., 1815-1891. Papers of Bocock and of the Bocock, Thornhill Christian, Stephens, Flood, Patteson, and Diuguid families of Buckingham and Appomattox counties, 1760-1897.

Title: Papers of Bocock and of the Bocock, Thornhill Christian, Stephens, Flood, Patteson, and Diuguid families of Buckingham and Appomattox counties, 1760-1897.

Correspondence, financial and legal papers, ledgers, and speeches. Letters to Bocock, 1840-1887, comprise almost half the collection. Most are from his constituents and concern routine matters such as pension and bounty claims, academy appointments, mail routes, requests for copies of documents and speeches, and for legal assistance. Topics of interest include a contested 1847 election with Henry P. Irving; the admission of California, and the Compromise of 1850; the Nashville Convention of 1850; slavery, abolition, and the ante-bellum South; the Whig, Democrat and American (Know Nothing) parties; the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1880; and local Appomattox Co. politics. Many prominent figures of the day are mentioned including Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Cass, Douglas, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Fillmore, Buchanan, Hayes, and Louis Kossuth. Speeches on the tariff of 1842, the Wilmot Proviso, slavery, the Confederacy, and William Wilson Corcoran are included, as are a memorandum book, 1861-1866, of personal finances, papers from his chairmanship of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, a printed report on the Confederate Navy, and some legal and financial papers. The family papers contain correspondence, financial and legal papers. Topics of interest include Buckingham Co. politics, slavery, the Civil War, the tanning business, the American Tract Society, pioneer life in Alabama and Missouri, and the administration of several estates. Letters of note mention the confiscation of arms in Appomattox Co. for naval use, the gift of McCormick Observatory to the University of Virginia, the California gold rush, and the use of slaves on military fortifications. Also included are a minute book of the New Hope Baptist Church, Augusta Co., Va. with many references to blacks, an 1830s physician's ledger, a Buckingham Co. tax register, 1832, and an 1830s diary / journal listing family events and home remedies.

ArchivalResource: 3000 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821332 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Confederate States of America Records, 1854-1889, (bulk 1861-1865)

Title: Confederate States of America Records 1854-1889 (bulk 1861-1865)

Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records, financial records, letterbooks, orders, reports, and other records of the Confederate Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Post Office Department, Navy Department, and War Department. Includes Confederate constitutional documents and the James Wolcott Wadsworth collection of diplomatic correspondence and letters of Raphael Semmes.

ArchivalResource: 18,500 items; 124 containers plus 5 oversize; 28 linear feet; 71 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003052 View

United States. Patent Office. Patent, 1858 July 6, granted to Sylvester W. Warren, Brooklyn, N.Y. / Jacob Thompson.

Title: Patent, 1858 July 6, granted to Sylvester W. Warren, Brooklyn, N.Y. / Jacob Thompson.

Patent, and specifications, together with drawing on architect's linen, of a safety device for steam driven apparatus.

ArchivalResource: [5] p. : ill. (1 col.) ; 50 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7838337 View

United States. Dept. of the Interior. Selected documents relating to the International Boundary Commission [microform] : letter book, Mexican boundary.

Title: Selected documents relating to the International Boundary Commission [microform] : letter book, Mexican boundary. 1849-1858.

Letters written between 1849 and 1858 by Secretaries of the Interior Thomas Ewing, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Robert McClelland, and Jacob Thompson to John Weller, John R. Bartlett, William Emory, and others concerning the U.S. and Mexican Boundary Survey.

ArchivalResource: 412 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41383835 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Letter signed : "Department of the Interior," to J.S. Black, Attorney-General, 1858 May 25.

Title: Letter signed : "Department of the Interior," to J.S. Black, Attorney-General, 1858 May 25.

Concerning the title to property owned in New York City by E. Burton.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270572142 View

Texas. Secretary of State. Secretary of State boundary records, 1837-1843. 1858-1860, 1873-1877, 1882, 1885-1887, 1911, undated.

Title: Secretary of State boundary records, 1837-1843. 1858-1860, 1873-1877, 1882, 1885-1887, 1911, undated.

In June 1837, the Congress of the Republic of Texas authorized the President to appoint a commissioner to act with a commissioner to be appointed by the United States to survey the eastern boundary of Texas. In October 1838, the Congress ratified a Convention between the two nations providing for such a survey. The boundary commission finished its work in June 1841. On February 11, 1854, the Texas legislature agreed to cooperate with a United States Commission to define the northern and western boundaries of Texas. These records consist of correspondence, reports, vouchers, and abstracts of account of the Texas Boundary Commissioners, of the United States Commissioners, of Presidents and Governors of Texas, and of other state and federal officials. Dates covered are 1837-1843, 1858-1860, 1873-1877, 1882, 1885-1887, 1911, undated. The Texas Boundary Commissioners filed reports of their progress with either the Secretary of State or the President/Governor of Texas. The correspondence was maintained by the Secretary of State. Reports concern relations with the U.S. Commissioner, progress of the survey, and routine supply and personnel matters. Correspondents of the Republic reports and letters include Texas Boundary Commissioners Memucan Hunt and later George W. Smyth; United States Commissioner John H. Overton, President Mirabeau B. Lamar, and David G. Burnet. Also present are two journals of the Joint United States/Republic of Texas Boundary Commission. One dates from May 22, 1840 to July 10, 1841 and covers the running of the boundary from the mouth of the Sabine River to the Red River. The other journal, from May 18, 1840 to April 25, 1841, covers the running of the boundary from the Sabine River to the 32nd parallel. Correspondents in 1859-1860 include William A. Bush (Secretary of the Boundary Commission), William H. Russell (Commissioner of the Boundary Survey), John H. Clark (U.S. Commissioner of the Boundary Survey), J. Thompson (U.S. Secretary of the Interior), Thomas F. Chapman (Secretary/Quartermaster/Commissary of the Boundary Commission), Governor H. R. Runnels, and Governor Sam Houston. Correspondence beginning 1873 is largely concerned with proving the Texas claim to Greer County. Correspondents include L. K. Lippincott (Acting U.S. General Land Office Commissioner) and Governor R. B. Hubbard. Correspondents in the 1880s include Governor John Ireland, William C. Endicott (U.S. Secretary of War), James Porter (Acting U.S. Secretary of State), U.S. Senator Samuel B. Maxey, J. Thomas Brackenridge (chairman, Texas Commissioners), and John S. Ford.

ArchivalResource: 0.47 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/696412192 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Jacob Thompson correspondence, 1841 June.

Title: Jacob Thompson correspondence, 1841 June.

ALS (Oxford, Miss.) from Thompson to H. H. Worthington, Columbus, Miss., regarding national issues being addressed in Congress.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980598 View

Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885. Letter : [Washington], D.C., to Robert J. Walker, [Washington, D.C.], 1846 Mar. 23.

Title: Letter : [Washington], D.C., to Robert J. Walker, [Washington, D.C.], 1846 Mar. 23.

Autograph letter signed. Signed by Thompson, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, addressed to Robert J. Walker, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Address is included.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83077197 View

Charles S. Sydnor Papers, and undated, 1729-1978

Title: Charles S. Sydnor Papers, and undated 1729-1978

ArchivalResource: Linear ft. of shelf space occupied: 14.8; Number of items: ca. 11,159

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