TY  - GEN
AU  - Wadsworth,James
AU  - Hay,John
AU  - Lincoln,Abraham
AU  - Wadsworth,James S.
AU  - Wadsworth,James Wolcott
AU  - Wadsworth,James Wolcott
AU  - Wadsworth,William
TI  - James Wadsworth family papers,
KW  - Davis, Jefferson,
KW  - Greeley, Horace,
KW  - Roosevelt, Theodore,
KW  - Wadsworth family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Congress
KW  - Department of State
KW  - National Security Training Commission
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
KW  - Libraries
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Geneseo
KW  - Endowments
KW  - Schools
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864
KW  - Geneseo (N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1865-1950
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Autographs
KW  - Casualties
KW  - Peace
KW  - 1865-1933
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Landowners
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Philanthropists
KW  - Reformers
N1  - Open to research; Photograph album also available through the Library of Congress Web site, Words and Deeds in American History
N2  - Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and other papers of the family of James Wadsworth (1768-1844) and his brother, William Wadsworth (1761-1833), who settled in Geneseo, N.Y., in 1790 and endowed schools and libraries there; Includes papers of James S. Wadsworth (1807-1864), son of James Wadsworth, Union Army officer who fought in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., and was mortally wounded in the battle of the Wilderness (Va.); James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926), son of James S. Wadsworth, Union Army officer, state legislator, and U.S. representative from New York; and James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (1877-1952), U.S. senator and representative from New York and chairman, National Security Training Commission, whose congressional papers comprise the bulk of the collection.  Also includes papers of James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.'s father-in-law, John Hay (1838-1905), diplomat and U.S. secretary of state (1898-1905), whose letters comment on life in London, England, and Washington, D.C; Also included are a letter (1864 July 9) from Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley promising safe conduct for any emissaries of peace, abandonment of slavery, or restoration of the Union from Jefferson Davis; an album of autographed photographs of leaders in the Lincoln administration; and letters of Theodore Roosevelt
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.msmcc051
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997014
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997014.3
ER  -