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    <title>Martin Van Buren papers, 1787-1910 (bulk 1820-1850)</title>
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    <namePart>Van Buren, Martin</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1782-1862</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, and messages to Congress, autobiographical material, notes, legal record book, estate record book, and other papers pertaining to slavery and the antislavery movement; banking and the Second Bank of the United States; party politics in New York state and at the national level relating to the Federalist, National Republican, Whig, and Democratic parties, particularly during the Jackson and Van Buren administrations; and the opposition politics of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, DeWitt Clinton, William Henry Harrison, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, John Tyler, and Daniel Webster.  Other topics include the Washington Globe, Indian affairs, the annexation of Texas and war with Mexico, Free Soil Movement, tariffs, relations with France and England, and the northeast boundary question.  Also includes material pertaining to Van Buren's home, Lindenwald, in Kinderhook, N.Y., and correspondence and a travel journal (1838-1839) kept by John Van Buren during a trip to England and Europe.</abstract>
  <abstract>Of particular significance is the correspondence (1828-1845) with Andrew Jackson.  Other correspondents include George Bancroft, Thomas Hart Benton, Francis Preston Blair, James Buchanan, Benjamin F. Butler, Harriet Allen Butler, Churchill Caldom Cambreleng, John A. Dix, John Fairfield, Azariah C. Flagg, Henry D. Gilpin, James Hamilton, Jr., Jesse Hoyt, Charles Jared Ingersoll, Amos Kendall, William L. Marcy, Louis McLane, Richard Elliot Parker, James Kirke Paulding, Joel Roberts Poinsett, James K. Polk, Thomas Ritchie, William C. Rives, Andrew Stevenson,  Levi Woodbury, and Silas Wright.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of series 1-7 and a portion of series 8 available, nos. 12,210 and 12.210.1.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1960-1980.</note>
  <note>In part, transcripts.</note>
  <note>U.S. president, vice-president, secretary of state and 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.ms001044">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001044</note>
  <note>Calendar published by the Library of Congress, 1910.</note>
  <note>Calendar published by the Library of Congress in 1910 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.  Cataloged in record 10035009.</note>
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      <namePart>Bancroft, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Benton, Thomas Hart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1858</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blair, Francis Preston</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1876</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Buchanan, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1868</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1858</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Butler, Harriet Allen</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1850</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cambreleng, Churchill Caldom</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1862</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clay, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1852</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clinton, DeWitt</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1769-1828</namePart>
    </name>
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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>Fairfield, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1847</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Flagg, Azariah C. (Azariah Cutting)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1790-1873</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilworth)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1801-1860</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hamilton, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1857</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harrison, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1773-1841</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoyt, Jesse</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ingersoll, Charles Jared</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1862</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kendall, Amos</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1869</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Marcy, William L. (William Learned)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1857</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McLane, Louis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1857</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Parker, Richard Elliot</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1783-1840</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Paulding, James Kirke</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1778-1860</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Poinsett, Joel Roberts</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1779-1851</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart>Polk, James K. (James Knox)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1849</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ritchie, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1778-1854</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Rives, William C. (William Cabell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1793-1868</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Scott, Winfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1866</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stevenson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1857</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Taylor, Zachary</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1850</namePart>
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      <namePart>Tyler, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1790-1862</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Buren, Martin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1862</namePart>
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    <topic>Homes and haunts</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Webster, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1852</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Woodbury, Levi</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1851</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright, Silas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1847</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bank of the United States (1816-1836)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Democratic Party (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Government relations</topic>
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    <topic>Mexican War, 1846-1848</topic>
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    <topic>Slavery</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <geographic>Europe</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>Northeast boundary of the United States</geographic>
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