Short, William 1759-1849 creator mixed material monographic eng 20,000 64 5 32 26 Diplomatic, financial, and personal correspondence, financial and business papers, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Short's activities as secretary to Thomas Jefferson, his diplomatic missions to France, Holland, and Spain, his aborted mission to Russia, and his extensive business interests, especially land speculation in Ohio, Kentucky, New York, and Virginia, and his investments in railroads and canals. Correspondence with American and European diplomatic and political leaders pertains to the French Revolution, American public debt, Virginia politics, foreign relations between the U.S. and France and Spain, and the American Colonization Society. Correspondents include John Adams, William Carmichael, Michel-Guillaume St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, Robert Fulton, Albert Gallatin, Don Diego Gardoqui y Arriquibar, Manuel de Godoy, William Grayson, Alexander Hamilton, Isaac Hull, Thomas Jefferson, the marquis de Lafayette, James Madison, James Monroe, Gouverneur Morris, William Nelson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Pinckney, Edmund Randolph, M. M. Robinson, John Rutledge, Fulwar Skipwith, Alexis de Tocqueville, Bushrod Washington, and Charles Wilkins Short, and other Short family members. Open to research. Microfilm edition available, no. 17,058. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977. Secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, diplomat, and landowner. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010121 Adams, John 1735-1826 Correspondence Carmichael, William -1795 Correspondence Fulton, Robert 1765-1815 Correspondence Gallatin, Albert 1761-1849 Correspondence Gardoqui y Arriquibar, Diego 1735-1798 Correspondence príncipe de la Paz Godoy, Manuel de 1767-1851 Correspondence Grayson, William 1736-1790 Correspondence Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 Correspondence Hull, Isaac 1773-1843 Correspondence Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Correspondence marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier 1757-1834 Correspondence Madison, James 1751-1836 Correspondence Monroe, James 1758-1831 Correspondence Morris, Gouverneur 1752-1816 Correspondence Nelson, William 1760-1813 Correspondence Paine, Thomas 1737-1809 Correspondence Pinckney, Thomas 1750-1828 Correspondence Randolph, Edmund 1753-1813 Correspondence Robinson, M. M. (Merritt M.) -1850 Correspondence Rutledge, John 1739-1800 Correspondence Skipwith, Fulwar 1765-1839 Correspondence Short, Charles Wilkins 1794-1863 Correspondence St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector 1735-1813 Correspondence Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 Correspondence Washington, Bushrod 1762-1829 Correspondence Short family American Colonization Society. Canals Debts, Public Finance Finance, Public Investments Land speculation Ohio Land speculation Kentucky Land speculation New York (State) Land speculation Virginia Railroads France Foreign relations United States France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Netherlands Foreign relations United States Russia Foreign relations United States Spain Foreign relations United States Virginia Politics and government United States Foreign relations France United States Foreign relations Netherlands United States Foreign relations Russia United States Foreign relations Spain Diplomats Secretaries, Presidential mm 77039891 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010121 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010121.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010121 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010121.3 Open to research. DLC 770602 20260227111618.0 mm 77039891