Benjamin B. French family papers, (Record no. 42857)
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| NUCMC control number | ms 80002044 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | W |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | French, Benjamin B. |
| Fuller form of name | (Benjamin Brown), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1800-1870. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Benjamin B. French family papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1778-1940 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1813-1893). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 6,500 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 38 |
| Type of unit | containers plus 6 |
| -- | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 16 |
| Type of unit | microfilm reels. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 17.2 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 506 ## - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Part I contains correspondence primarily between Benjamin B. French and his half brother Henry Flagg French of Exeter, N.H., journals (1828-1870), poems, clippings, and printed material. Includes Benjamin B. French's observations on New Hampshire politics, freemasonry, his involvement with the Magnetic Telegraph Company, the presidency of Franklin Pierce, social life in Washington, D.C., French's association with Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's assassination, the Civil War, the years following the Civil War, and Congress. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Part II consists chiefly of the papers of Benjamin B. French, his son Francis Ormond French, and Amos Tuck. Benjamin B. French's correspondence continues topics found in Part I. Francis Ormond French's journals cover his early years in Washington, D.C., as well as his years at the Rittenhouse Academy, Washington, D.C., Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. His correspondence provides insight into the life of a prosperous American family of the late nineteenth century in New York, N.Y. Amos Tuck's correspondence pertains to politics, his travels in the Midwest in 1851, and the devastation of the South from the Civil War. Also includes letters of William Merchant Richardson. Francis's correspondents include Harris C. Fahnestock, Daniel Chester French, Lot M. Morrill, Hugh McCulloch, William A. Richardson, and John Sherman. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE | |
| Additional physical form available note | Microfilm edition of journal, volumes 1-11, available, |
| Order number | no. 15,260. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE | |
| Additional physical form available note | Microfilm edition available, |
| Order number | no. 18,483. |
| 533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE | |
| Type of reproduction | Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. |
| Place of reproduction | Washington, D.C. : |
| Agency responsible for reproduction | Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, |
| Date of reproduction | 1972-1982. |
| 533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE | |
| Type of reproduction | In part, transcripts. |
| Place of reproduction | [S.l.]. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Most prints and photographs |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, New Hampshire politician, and commissioner of public buildings in Washington, D.C. Other individuals represented include Benjamin's son Francis Ormond French, financier; Amos Tuck, U.S. representative from N.H., whose daughter Ellen married Francis O. French in 1861; and William Merchant Richardson, chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and father of Benjamin B. French's first wife. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003036">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003036</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fahnestock, Harris C. |
| Fuller form of name | (Harris Charles), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1835-1914 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | French, Daniel Chester, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1850-1931 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | French, Henry F. |
| Fuller form of name | (Henry Flagg), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1813-1885 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lincoln, Abraham, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1809-1865. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lincoln, Abraham, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1809-1865 |
| General subdivision | Assassination. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McCulloch, Hugh, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1808-1895 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Morrill, Lot M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Lot Myrick), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1812-1883 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pierce, Franklin, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1804-1869. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Richardson, William A. |
| Fuller form of name | (William Adams), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1821-1896 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sherman, John, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1823-1900 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | French family. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | United States. |
| Subordinate unit | Congress. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Harvard College (1780- ) |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Magnetic Telegraph Company. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Phillips Exeter Academy. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Rittenhouse Academy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Freemasonry. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Private schools |
| Geographic subdivision | New Hampshire |
| -- | Exeter. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Private schools |
| Geographic subdivision | Washington (D.C.) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Universities and colleges |
| Geographic subdivision | Massachusetts |
| -- | Cambridge. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Confederate States of America |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Middle West |
| General subdivision | Description and travel. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | New Hampshire |
| General subdivision | Politics and government. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | New York (N.Y.) |
| General subdivision | Social life and customs. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Southern States |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 1865-1877. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 1865-1898. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Washington (D.C.) |
| General subdivision | Social life and customs. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Clerks, U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Politicians. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Public officials. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | French, Francis O. |
| Fuller form of name | (Francis Ormond), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1837-1893. |
| Title of a work | Francis O. French papers. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Richardson, William Merchant, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1774-1838. |
| Title of a work | William Merchant Richardson papers. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tuck, Amos, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1810-1879. |
| Title of a work | Amos Tuck papers. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003036">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003036</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003036.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003036.3</a> |
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