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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Shaler family papers, 1809-1935</title>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Correspondence (1810-1880), appointments (1815-1829), passports (1809-1814), financial papers (1814-1823), indentures (1819-1859) for transfer of land in Kentucky, patent, biographical sketch, genealogy, broadsides, portraits, and clippings.  Chiefly the papers of Nathaniel Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, William Shaler, and Richard Southgate.  Correspondents include Henry Clay, James Monroe, and Jonathan Russell.  Includes documents signed by Andrew Jackson, James Madison, James Monroe, and Robert Smith.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Members of the Shaler (Schaller) family.  Persons prominent in the collection include William Shaler, U.S. consul general at Havana and Algiers; his brother, Nathaniel, captain of a privateer during the War of 1812; Nathaniel's father-in-law, Richard Southgate; and Nathaniel's son, Nathaniel S. Shaler, geologist and educator.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clay, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1852</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Madison, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1751-1836</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monroe, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1831</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monroe, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1831</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Russell, Jonathan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1771-1832</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1757-1842</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Schaller family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>War of 1812</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Algeria</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Diplomats</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Educators</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Geologists</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Mariners</occupation>
  </subject>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Nathaniel Shaler papers</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shaler, Nathaniel,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1775-1814</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Nathaniel Southgate Shaler papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1906</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>William Shaler papers</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shaler, William,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1778?-1833</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Richard Southgate papers</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Southgate, Richard,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1729-1795</namePart>
    </name>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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