Duff Green papers, 1716-1883 (bulk 1827-1845).

By: Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsDescription: 725 items; 3 containers plus 1 oversize; 3 microfilm reels; 1.6 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Microfilm edition available, no. 16,257.
Summary: Correspondence, speeches, writings, legal and financial records, printed matter, maps, and other papers relating to Green's service as a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet," and as an unofficial representative (1840-1844) of President John Tyler in England and France. Subjects include the political rights of the South in the Union, retention of a free press, promotion of industrial enterprise, international trade, state rights, tariff laws, slavery and its abolition in Texas, presidential elections, free trade, commercial treaties between the U.S. and England, the Oregon question, and Green's business ventures in the U.S.Summary: Correspondents include James Buchanan, John J. Cabell, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Richard Cobden, Richard K. Crallé, George Mifflin Dallas, John Henry Eaton, Henry Ellis, Edward Everett, Lucretia Green, William Henry Harrison, Isaac Hill, Andrew Jackson, Amos Kendall, John MacGregor, James Madison, Robert Peel, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren, and Daniel Webster.
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Correspondence, speeches, writings, legal and financial records, printed matter, maps, and other papers relating to Green's service as a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet," and as an unofficial representative (1840-1844) of President John Tyler in England and France. Subjects include the political rights of the South in the Union, retention of a free press, promotion of industrial enterprise, international trade, state rights, tariff laws, slavery and its abolition in Texas, presidential elections, free trade, commercial treaties between the U.S. and England, the Oregon question, and Green's business ventures in the U.S.

Correspondents include James Buchanan, John J. Cabell, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Richard Cobden, Richard K. Crallé, George Mifflin Dallas, John Henry Eaton, Henry Ellis, Edward Everett, Lucretia Green, William Henry Harrison, Isaac Hill, Andrew Jackson, Amos Kendall, John MacGregor, James Madison, Robert Peel, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren, and Daniel Webster.

Microfilm edition available, no. 16,257.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975.

Journalist, politician, entrepreneur, and industrial promoter.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009091

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