Calvin Comins Bliss papers, 1841-1906.

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Calvin Comins Bliss papers, 1841-1906.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244440477

Correspondence, speech, accounts, receipts, financial statements, vouchers, bills of sale, promissory notes, contracts, leases, power of attorney, military records, certificates, reports, legislative bill, memoranda, photos, clippings, books, obituary, and various land, legal, and other business papers. The papers relate chiefly to Bliss's military service, his business, personal, and family affairs, the publication of the "Unconditional union," and to Reconstruction in Arkansas. Includes material relating to Helena, Batesville, and Little Rock, Ark., St. Louis, Mo., Memphis, Tenn., and Washington, D. C. Persons represented include M.L. Andrews, George F. Appleby, Elisha Baxter, James M. Bliss, Salmon Portland Chase, Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Elias Nelson Conway, Samuel Ryan Curtis, Augustus Hill Garland, Hugh McCulloch, Robert Cuming Schenk, William Henry Seward, Frederick Steele, and Stewart Van Vliet.

2 ft. (600 items)

Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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