Henry Carter Adams papers, 1864-1924.

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Henry Carter Adams papers, 1864-1924.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34423612

Personal and professional correspondence, diaries, travel journals, drafts of books, letter books, reports and printed materials concerning his work with the Interstate Commerce Commission, his activities as an expert witness in railroad compensation and tax cases, and University of Michigan affairs. Correspondents include: Bertha H. Adams, Charles Kendall Adams, Elizabeth Douglass Adams, Ephraim Adams, Ephraim Douglass Adams, Herbert Baxter Adams, Jane Addams, W.B. Allison, James B. Angell, Ray. Stannard Baker, Hamilton M. Bartlett, Samuel W. Beakes, Edward W. Bemis, Louis Brandeis, W.C. Brown, Charles J. Bullock, Marion L. Burton, Nicholas Murray Butler, James H. Canfield, John Bates Clark, William L. Clements, John R. Commons, Charles Horton Cooley, Mortimer E. Cooley, Thomas M. Cooley, William Dawson, Davis R. Dewey, John Dewey, Frank Dixon, M.L. D'Ooge, Stephen B. Elkins, Richard T. Ely, Fred Fairchild, Frank A. Fetter, Irving Fisher, Franklin H. Giddings, W.S. Gifford, Daniel Coit. Gilman, Thomas P. Gore, Arthur T. Hadley, Albert Bushnell Hart, Jacob H. Hollander, Albert J. Hopkins, Charles Henry Hull, Harry Burns Hutchins, Edmund J. James, John Franklin Jameson, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, David Starr Jordan, George Wells Knight, J. Laurence Laughlin, David Lewis, Frank A. Manny, Richmond Mayo-Smith, Edwin D. Mead, Chase S. Osborn, Walter Hines Page, Frederic L. Paxson, J.L. Pickard, William Z. Ripley, Henry Wade Rogers, William M. Salter, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Correspondents include: William Thompson Sedgwick, Edwin R. Seligman, Isaiah L. Sharfman, Albert Shaw, Albion Woodbury Small, Henry C. Smith, J.M.C. Smith, James Allen Smith, Augustus O. Stanley, F.W. Taussig, Graham Taylor, Calvin Thomas, Charles A. Towne, Charles W. Townsend, Moses Coit Tyler, Charles R. VanHise, Victor C. Vaughan, Lester F. Ward, David A. Wells, Benjamin Wheeler, Andrew Dickson White, Delos F. Wilcox, Walter F. Wilcox, John S. Williams and Woodrow Wilson.

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