Nelson W. Aldrich papers, 1777-1930 (bulk 1879-1915).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 42,750 items; 140 containers plus 3 oversize; 73 microfilm reels; 58 linear feetSubject(s): - Anthony, Henry B. (Henry Bowen), 1815-1884 -- Correspondence
- Camden, Johnson Newlon, 1828-1908 -- Correspondence
- Cannon, Henry White, 1850-1934 -- Correspondence
- Chace, Jonathan, 1829-1917 -- Correspondence
- Choate, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1828-1911
- Crane, Winthrop Murray, 1853-1920 -- Correspondence
- Hale, Eugene, 1836-1918 -- Correspondence
- Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 -- Correspondence
- Nichols, Jeannette Paddock, 1890- -- Correspondence
- Nicholson, William Thomas, 1834-1893 -- Correspondence
- Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright), 1867-1935 -- Correspondence
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
- Whitman, William, 1842-1928 -- Correspondence
- Aldridge family
- Tariff -- United States
- Rhode Island -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
- Hepburn Act, 1906
- Financiers
- Philanthropists
- Representatives, U.S. Congress -- Rhode Island
- Senators, U.S. Congress -- Rhode Island
- Microfilm edition available, no. 15,443.
Open to research.
Correspondence, journal (1906) relating to the Hepburn bill, appointment books (1906-1909), drafts of speeches with related notes and memoranda, personal bank accounts, bills, receipts, and other financial papers, tariff schedules (1880-1894), documents, reports, bills, scrapbooks, clippings, pamphlets and other printed material chiefly relating to Aldrich's career as U.S. representative and senator from Rhode Island. Includes diaries (1904 and 1912) kept by Aldrich's wife, Abby Pearce Chapman Aldrich; biographical material concerning the Aldrich (Aldridge) family dating from 1762; and a group of biographer's papers (1924-1930) containing correspondence and notes of Jeannette Paddock Nichols and Nathaniel W. Stephenson. Correspondents include Henry B. Anthony, Johnson Newlon Camden, Henry White Cannon, Jonathan Chace, Charles F. Choate, Winthrop Murray Crane, Eugene Hale, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Thomas Nicholson, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and William Whitman.
Microfilm edition available, no. 15,443.
Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
U.S. representative and senator from Rhode Island, financier, and philanthropist.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010127
Index to Series 1: Diaries and Notebooks, 1863-1927; and Series 2: General Correspondence, 1777-1915, available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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