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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Donald McDonald Dickinson papers, 1863-1917</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Dickinson, Donald McDonald</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1846-1917</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>350</extent>
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  <abstract>Official, political, and personal correspondence.  Includes letterbooks of personal correspondence during the period Dickinson was postmaster general; correspondence with such figures as Robert Lansing and Richard Olney relating to Dickinson's duties as senior counsel for the U.S. at the Bering Sea Claims Convention; and 24 letters (1887-1896) from Stephen Johnson Field.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Lawyer and U.S. postmaster general.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Post Office Department.</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lansing, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1928</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Olney, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1917</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Bering Sea controversy</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Cabinet officers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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