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  <titleInfo>
    <title>John G. Nicolay papers, 1811-1943 (bulk 1860-1901)</title>
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    <namePart>Nicolay, John G. (John George)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1832-1901</namePart>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, research notes, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers relating chiefly to Nicolay's public career particularly his tenure as secretary to President Abraham Lincoln and to his numerous literary activities including his works on Lincoln.  Also documents his service as U.S. consul, Paris, France, and U.S. Supreme Court marshal.  Includes papers of his daughter, Helen Nicolay.  Correspondents include John Bigelow, Anson Burlingame, Simon Cameron, Schuyler Colfax, Roscoe Conkling, William Dennison, John A. Dix, James Dixon, George Gilman Fogg, Horace Greeley, James Tracy Hale, James Harlan, O.M. Hatch, John Hay, Robert Todd Lincoln, Alexander K. McClure, Joseph Medill, Edwin D. Morgan, Charles H. Philbrick, Whitelaw Reid, Carl Schurz, Charles Sumner, Leonard Swett, Theodore Tilton, Horace White, A.C. Woolfolk, and Nicolay's wife, Therena Bates Nicolay.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Presidential secretary and biographer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Finding aid and index available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bigelow, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1911</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burlingame, Anson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1870</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cameron, Simon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1889</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Colfax, Schuyler</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1885</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Conkling, Roscoe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1888</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dennison, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1882</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dix, John A. (John Adams)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1798-1879</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dixon, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fogg, George Gilman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1881</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greeley, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hale, James Tracy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1865</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harlan, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hatch, O. M. (Ozias Mather)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hay, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1905</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Robert Todd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1926</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1828-1909</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Medill, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morgan, Edwin D. (Edwin Denison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1883</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nicolay, Therena Bates</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1885</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Philbrick, Charles H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reid, Whitelaw</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1912</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Schurz, Carl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1906</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sumner, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1874</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Swett, Leonard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1825-1889</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tilton, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1907</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart>Woolfolk, A. C. (Austin Coleman)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1880</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Supreme Court</namePart>
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    <topic>Officials and employees</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>France</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>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>France</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>1861-1865</temporal>
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    <occupation>Secretaries, Presidential</occupation>
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      <title>Helen Nicolay papers</title>
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      <namePart>Nicolay, Helen,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1954</namePart>
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