James Franklin Aldrich papers, 1841-1932 (bulk 1876-1932).

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James Franklin Aldrich papers, 1841-1932 (bulk 1876-1932).

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Correspondence, letter books, journals, essays, and certificates of James Franklin Aldrich. Correspondence and 2 books of letters (bound later), primarily incoming to J. Frank Aldrich; an 1876 journal of a trip through New Mexico and Arizona to select a site for surviving members of the 57th Illinois Infantry Veterans Volunteer Association; essays by Aldrich on the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, Chicago history, the Union League Club of Chicago, the Haymarket Square riot, the Presidential hopes of Thomas B. Reed in 1896, the War of 1898, and other reminiscences and commentaries; and certificates, mostly relative to Aldrich's career as a U.S. Representative (1893-97). Letterbook 2 includes letters requesting President McKinley to appoint Aldrich as Minister to Belgium. Also present in the collection are letters addressed to Francis T. Sherman concerning the Chicago Post Office and requests for patronage (1868-1870s) and certificates belonging to Sherman. Authors of letters to Aldrich or to his father, William Aldrich, include Dr. Frank Billings, John W. Gates, Robert Todd Lincoln, Gustavus W. Swift, Frank O. Lowden, Graham Taylor, Montgomery Ward; in letterbook 1: James G. Blaine, Frederick Douglass, Charles B. Farwell, John W. Gates, Julius S. Grinnell, John M. Harlan, William P. Kellogg, Joseph Medill, Thomas B. Reed, Horace M. Singer, and Bayard Taylor. Letterbook 2 includes a letter by Austin Blair to Abraham Lincoln (1861 Feb. 27) and the 1841 marriage certificate of Aldrich's parents William and Anna Mary (Howard) Aldrich. Other correspondents in the collection include J. Franklin Aldrich's daughter Martha, wife Mariska, and the Chicago Historical Society.

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