Edmund Burke papers,

Burke, Edmund, 1809-1882.

Edmund Burke papers, 1821-1881. - 400 items. 5 containers.

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Correspondence, drafts of newspaper editorials, speeches, committee reports, resolutions, commissions, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, pertaining to Burke's career as a newspaper editor in New Hampshire and as a congressman. Chiefly incoming correspondence, relating primarily to the U.S. Patent Office and to the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island (1842), and including fifty letters from President Franklin Pierce. Other correspondents include James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Nathan Clifford, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Daniel S. Dickinson, Thomas W. Dorr, John W. Forney, Henry Hubbard, James K. Polk, Thomas Ritchie, Gideon Welles, Fernando Wood, and Levi Woodbury.


Lawyer, newspaper editor, and U.S. representative.


Collection material in English.

mm 79014340


Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Correspondence.
Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 --Correspondence.
Clifford, Nathan, 1803-1881 --Correspondence.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889 --Correspondence.
Dickinson, Daniel S. 1800-1866 --Correspondence.
Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 --Correspondence.
Forney, John W. 1817-1881 --Correspondence.
Hubbard, Henry, 1784-1857 --Correspondence.
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869 --Correspondence.
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 --Correspondence.
Ritchie, Thomas, 1778-1854 --Correspondence.
Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 --Correspondence.
Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881 --Correspondence.
Woodbury, Levi, 1789-1851 --Correspondence.


United States. Congress. House.
United States. Patent Office.


American newspapers--New Hampshire.
Dorr Rebellion, 1842.


New Hampshire--Politics and government--1775-1865.
Rhode Island--History--1775-1865.
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.


Editors.
Lawyers.
Representatives, U.S. Congress.

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