TY  - GEN
AU  - Buchanan,James
AU  - Johnston,Harriet Lane
TI  - James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston papers,
KW  - Johnston, Henry Elliot,
KW  - Jones, J. Glancy
KW  - Poinsett, Joel Roberts,
KW  - United States
KW  - Department of State
KW  - American Party
KW  - Democratic Party (Pa.)
KW  - Democratic Party (U.S.)
KW  - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
KW  - Whig Party (U.S.)
KW  - Democratic National Convention
KW  - (1852
KW  - Baltimore, Md.)
KW  - New York herald
KW  - Abolitionists
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Canals
KW  - Delaware
KW  - Crimean War, 1853-1856
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Fashion
KW  - International trade
KW  - Missouri compromise
KW  - Monopolies
KW  - Nullification (States' rights)
KW  - Oregon question
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Messages
KW  - Election
KW  - 1852
KW  - 1856
KW  - Political conventions
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Baltimore
KW  - Postal service
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Tariff
KW  - National banks (United States)
KW  - Cumberland Road
KW  - Northwest boundary of the United States
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Kansas
KW  - History
KW  - 1854-1861
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Nebraska
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - 1775-1865
KW  - 1815-1861
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Causes
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Cabinet officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Representatives, U.S. Congress
KW  - Senators, U.S. Congress
N1  - Restrictions apply; Microfilm edition available, in part; no. 16,939; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1977; In part, typewritten transcripts; [S.l.]
N2  - Correspondence, notes, drafts of remarks, commissions, land patents, and other papers relating chiefly to Buchanan's career in the Senate, as U.S. secretary of state, and as minister to Great Britain prior to his presidency in 1857.  Subjects include Democratic politics in Pennsylvania and the U.S.; presidential politics including the elections of 1852 and 1856; the Democratic convention of 1852 held in Baltimore, Md.; the Know Nothings (American Party); the Whig Party; Afro-Americans in the Republican party; sectional strife between North and South; Missouri compromise; Kansas and Nebraska; nullification; abolitionists; the National Bank; Cumberland Road; Delaware Canal; transcontinental railroad; and notice of Buchanan in the New York Herald. Other subjects include Joel R. Poinsett's negotiations with Mexico; blockade of Mexico; Oregon question; British attempts to obtain a marine postal monopoly; trade treaties; tariffs; Ostend Manifesto; and the Crimean war.  Includes a version of the 1858 State of the Union message.  Correspondents include J. Glancy Jones.  Johnston's correspondence relates primarily to ladies' fashions, social affairs, romantic ventures, and selection of a biographer of James Buchanan.  Includes correspondence with her husband, Henry Elliot Johnston
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010009
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010009.3
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101124003ja.1
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.20101124003ja.2
ER  -