Thomas F. Bayard papers, 1780-1899 (bulk 1860-1898).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 60,000 items; 220 containers plus 18 oversize; 49.6 linear feetSubject(s): - Adee, Alvey A. (Alvey Augustus), 1842-1924 -- Correspondence
- Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916 -- Correspondence
- Baden-Powell, George, 1847-1898 -- Correspondence
- Bayard, James A. (James Asheton), 1799-1880 -- Correspondence
- Belmont, August, 1813-1890 -- Correspondence
- Belmont, Perry, 1850-1947 -- Correspondence
- Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904 -- Correspondence
- Bryan, Henry Lewis, 1853-1934 -- Correspondence
- Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909 -- Correspondence
- Carroll, John Lee, 1830-1911 -- Correspondence
- Casserly, Eugene, 1823-1883 -- Correspondence
- Chamberlain, Joseph, 1836-1914 -- Correspondence
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
- Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 -- Correspondence
- Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889 -- Correspondence
- Denby, Charles, 1830-1904 -- Correspondence
- Dickinson, Donald McDonald, 1846-1917 -- Correspondence
- Du Pont, Henry, 1812-1889 -- Correspondence
- Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 -- Correspondence
- Endicott, William Crowninshield, 1826-1900 -- Correspondence
- Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901 -- Correspondence
- Fairchild, Charles S. (Charles Stebbins), 1842-1924 -- Correspondence
- Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893 -- Correspondence
- Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941 -- Correspondence
- Gallaudet, Edward Miner, 1837-1917 -- Correspondence
- Garland, A. H. (Augustus Hill), 1832-1899 -- Correspondence
- Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904 -- Correspondence
- Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895 -- Correspondence
- Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902 -- Correspondence
- Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
- Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904 -- Correspondence
- Hurlbert, William Henry, 1827-1895 -- Correspondence
- Lamar, L. Q. C. (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus), 1825-1893 -- Correspondence
- Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1851-1905 -- Correspondence
- Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 -- Correspondence
- Manning, Daniel, 1831-1887 -- Correspondence
- Manning, Thomas C. (Thomas Courtland), 1831-1887 -- Correspondence
- Marble, Manton, 1834-1917 -- Correspondence
- McLane, Robert M. (Robert Milligan), 1815-1898 -- Correspondence
- Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947 -- Correspondence
- Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898 -- Correspondence
- Olney, Richard, 1835-1917 -- Correspondence
- Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 -- Correspondence
- Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938 -- Correspondence
- Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889 -- Correspondence
- Phelps, Edward John, 1822-1900 -- Correspondence
- Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898 -- Correspondence
- Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901
- Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901 -- Correspondence
- Sackville, Lionel Sackville Sackville-West, Baron, 1827-1908
- Sackville, Lionel Sackville Sackville-West, Baron, 1827-1908 -- Correspondence
- Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 -- Correspondence
- Sherman, John, 1823-1900 -- Correspondence
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 -- Correspondence
- Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926 -- Correspondence
- Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886
- Vilas, William F. (William Freeman), 1840-1908 -- Correspondence
- Wells, David Ames, 1828-1898 -- Correspondence
- Wharton, Francis, 1820-1889 -- Correspondence
- White, Henry, 1850-1927 -- Correspondence
- White, Horace, 1834-1916 -- Correspondence
- Whitney, William C. (William Collins), 1841-1904 -- Correspondence
- Wister, Owen, 1860-1938 -- Correspondence
- Baird family -- Correspondence
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. Department of State
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Great Britain
- Fishery law and legislation
- Presidents -- United States -- Election
- Real property
- Sealing -- Law and legislation
- Silver question
- Tariff -- United States
- Transit, International
- China -- Foreign relations -- Japan
- Delaware -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
- Germany -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Hawaii -- Annexation to the United States
- Japan -- Foreign relations -- China
- Korea -- History -- 1864-1910
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- History
- Samoan Islands -- History
- United States -- Economic policy -- To 1933
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1865-1898
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900
- Venezuela -- Boundaries
- Ambassadors
- Cabinet officers
- Lawyers
- Senators, U.S. Congress -- Delaware
- Statesmen
Open to research.
Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, financial records, legal papers, scrapbooks, printed material, photographs, and other papers primarily relating to Bayard's career as U.S. senator from Delaware (1869-1885), U.S. secretary of state (1885-1889), and U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1893-1897) during the Cleveland administrations.
Pertains to real estate and financial matters, national politics, the Fitz-John Porter case, Samoan Islands, fisheries and sealing questions, the Venezuelan boundary dispute, Anglo-American and German-American relations, presidential campaigns, the silver question, the Tilden-Hayes election, tariff problems, the Sackville-West incident, the conflict between China and Japan over control of Korea, American annexation of Hawaii, and the isthmian transit and canal issue.
Correspondents include Alvey Augustus Adee, James Burrill Angell, George Baden-Powell, James A. Bayard, August Belmont, Perry Belmont, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Henry Lewis Bryan, Matthew C. Butler, John Lee Carroll, Eugene Casserly, Joseph Chamberlain, Grover Cleveland, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Charles Denby, Donald McDonald Dickinson, Henry Du Pont, Charles William Eliot, William Crowninshield Endicott, William Maxwell Evarts, Charles S. Fairchild, Hamilton Fish, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Edward Miner Gallaudet, Augustus H. Garland, John Brown Gordon, Walter Quintin Gresham, Wade Hampton, George Frisbie Hoar, William Henry Hurlbert, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Daniel Scott Lamont, Robert Todd Lincoln, Daniel Manning, Thomas Courtland Manning, Manton Marble, Robert M. McLane, John Bassett Moore, Justin S. Morrill, Richard Olney, Walter Hines Page, George Foster Peabody, George H. Pendleton, Edward John Phelps, Lord Lyon Playfair, Fitz-John Porter, Sir Lionel S. Sackville-West, Carl Schurz, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Oscar S. Straus, William F. Vilas, David Ames Wells, Francis Wharton, Henry White, Horace White, William C. Whitney, Owen Wister, and members of the Bayard (Baird) family.
U.S. senator from Delaware, secretary of state, and ambassador.
Collection material in English.
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