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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Reverdy Johnson papers, 1830-1876</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Johnson, Reverdy</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1796-1876</namePart>
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  <language>
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  <abstract>Correspondence relating chiefly to Johnson's service as U.S. senator from Maryland, as a special inquirer in the case (1862) of Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler at New Orleans, and as U.S. minister to Great Britain.  Includes material pertaining to Johnson's early law practice in Baltimore, Md.  Correspondents include George Douglas Campbell, Duke of Argyll; William Cullen Bryant; Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield; Stephen A. Douglas, W.E. Gladstone; Robert E. Lee; Louisa Catherine D'Arcy-Osborne, Duchess of Leeds; Jonathan D. Meredith; Charles Reade; John Osborne Sargent; William T. Sherman; Sir James Emerson Tennent; and Martin Van Buren.</abstract>
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  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 19,761</note>
  <note>Lawyer, U.S. senator from Maryland, and diplomat.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Duke of</namePart>
      <namePart>Argyll, George Douglas Campbell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1900</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bryant, William Cullen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1878</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1893</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Disraeli, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1881</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1861</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1870</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Duchess of</namePart>
      <namePart>Leeds, Louisa Catherine D'Arcy-Osborne</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1792-1874</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Meredith, Jonathan D</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1783-1872</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reade, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1884</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sargent, John Osborne</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Tennent, James Emerson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1869</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Buren, Martin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1862</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <geographic>Baltimore</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Orleans (La.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <occupation>Diplomats</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Senators, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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