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    <title>Robert Morris papers, 1775-1829</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Morris, Robert</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1734-1806</namePart>
    <role>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>18 1</extent>
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    <extent>12</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, letterbooks, journals and proceedings of the Continental Congress, accounts, and other papers. Most of the public papers relate to the financing of the American government and its forces during the Revolution.  Includes the account rendered by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais to Congress in 1782, copies of Morris's official letters, and his private business papers such as correspondence of the Philadelphia shipping firm of Willing, Morris &amp; Company.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 13,219 (8,765-12N).</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1947-1965.</note>
  <note>Superintendent of finance for the Continental Congress during the Revolution, merchant, land speculator, and statesman.</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.ms011193">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011193</note>
  <note>One letter (1778) was previously cataloged separately as part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1732-1799</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Congress.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Willing, Morris &amp; Company</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Finance, Public</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 1789</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
    <topic>Finance</topic>
  </subject>
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    <occupation>Land speculators</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Merchants</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Public officials</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Statesmen</occupation>
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