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    <title>Gouverneur Morris papers, 1771-1834 (bulk 1789-1816)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Morris, Gouverneur</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1752-1816</namePart>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Letterbooks, diaries, legal and financial papers, and miscellany relating chiefly to Morris's mission to London (1790-1791) and his service as minister to France (1792-1794) and in the U.S. Senate (1800-1803).  Also includes material pertaining to Morris's work as a business agent for Robert Morris, social life in Paris, the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, Morris's New York estate Morrisania, the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention, the development of the Erie Canal, and other events of the period and financial memoranda of his wife, Anne Cary Randolph Morris.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include William Carmichael, Lord Grenville; Alexander Hamilton; David Humphreys; Thomas Jefferson; Marie Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de Lafayette; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette; Francis Godolphin Osborne, duke of Leeds; Robert Morris; Thomas Pinckney; William Short; and George Washington, as well as various French ministers and diplomats.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of a portion of these papers available, no. 13,518.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967.</note>
  <note>Lawyer, diplomat, and U.S senator from New York.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010231">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010231</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carmichael, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1795</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1834</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hamilton, Alexander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1757-1804</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Humphreys, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1752-1818</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jefferson, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1743-1826</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">marquise de</namePart>
      <namePart>Lafayette, Marie Adrienne de Noailles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1807</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">marquis de</namePart>
      <namePart>Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1757-1834</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Duke of</namePart>
      <namePart>Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1751-1799</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morris, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1734-1806</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pinckney, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1750-1828</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Short, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1849</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Washington, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1732-1799</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>Hartford Convention (1814-1815 : Hartford, Conn.)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Canals</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, French</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Real property</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>States' rights (American politics)</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Erie Canal (N.Y.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1789-1799</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Reign of Terror, 1793-1794</temporal>
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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>Paris (France)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1783-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>War of 1812</temporal>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>Morrisania (N.Y. : Estate)</geographic>
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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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      <namePart>Morris, Anne Cary Randolph,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1774-1837</namePart>
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