TY  - GEN
AU  - Beale,Edward Fitzgerald
AU  - Beale,Marie Oge
AU  - Beale,Truxton
AU  - Decatur,Stephen
AU  - Truxtun,Thomas
TI  - Beale family papers from the Decatur House,
KW  - Benton, Thomas Hart,
KW  - Buchanan, James,
KW  - Cameron, Simon,
KW  - Conkling, Roscoe,
KW  - Frémont, Jessie Benton,
KW  - Frémont, John Charles,
KW  - Grant, Ulysses S.
KW  - Logan, John Alexander,
KW  - Sherman, John,
KW  - Taylor, Bayard,
KW  - Beal family.
KW  - Chase family.
KW  - Edwards family.
KW  - Grant family
KW  - Truxtun family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Navy
KW  - Officers
KW  - Decatur House (Washington, D.C.)
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Government relations
KW  - California
KW  - Nevada
KW  - Roads
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Greece
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Iran
KW  - Romania
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - History
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, journals, speeches, articles, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers of the Beale (Beal), Chase, Edwards, and Truxton families.  Includes papers of Edward Fitzgerald Beale relating primarily to his role in opening the West; papers of Truxtun Beale as U.S. minister to Greece, Persia, and Romania; diaries of Marie Oge Beale; papers of Stephen Decatur; and papers of Thomas Truxton.  Subjects include Edward Fitzgerald Beale's journey in 1853 to take up his post as superintendent of Indian affairs for California and Nevada and his survey (1858-1859) for a wagon road from Fort Smith, Ark., to the Colorado River; and the Decatur House.  Correspondents include Thomas Hart Benton, James Buchanan, Simon Cameron, Roscoe Conkling, Jessie Benton Frémont, John Charles Frémont, Ulysses S. Grant and his family, John Alexander Logan, John Sherman, and Bayard Taylor
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009320
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009320.3
ER  -