09221cpcaa2201333 a 4500 mm 78045054 DLC 20260227111626.0 cr ||||||||||| 781211|||||||||||| eng mm 78045054 ms 68002085 DLC dacs DLC DLC W lcmd Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. Gideon Welles papers, 1777-1911 (bulk 1820-1876). 15,070 items. 45 containers plus 1 oversize. 36 microfilm reels. 18.2 linear feet. Arranged in 10 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1824-1869; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1862-1869; Series 3: Correspondence, 1820-1878; Series 4: Records of the Navy Department, 1805-1878; Series 5: Speeches and Writings, 1822-1878; Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1834-1900; Series 7: Miscellany, 1777-1911; Series 8: Henry B. Learned Papers, 1899-1911; Series 9: Additions, 1822-1877; and Series 10: Oversize, 1842-1860. Open to research. Correspondence, diaries, writings, naval records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Welles's work as editor of the Hartford Times; his activities as a member of the Democratic Party and, later, the Republican Party in Connecticut state and national politics; his service as U.S. secretary of the navy; and his literary pursuits. Subjects include the role of the U.S. Navy in the Civil War, the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, Welles's commitment to the principles of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, the Civil War and Reconstruction, limits and uses of federal and states powers, natural history, naval affairs, relation of newspaper policy and politics, presidential candidates, political parties, and slavery. Includes a fifteen-volume diary kept by Welles as U.S. secretary of the navy; a three-volume restrospective narrative plus notes and journal entries for his early life; drafts of Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson (1911), edited by Welles's son, Edgar Thaddeus Welles; and a draft of Welles's book, Lincoln and Seward (1874). Also includes notes of historian Henry Barrett Learned relating to Welles. Correspondents include Joseph Pratt Allyn, James F. Babcock, Montgomery Blair, Alfred Edmund Burr, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Spicer Cleveland, Schuyler Colfax, Samuel Sullivan Cox, John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, Charles A. Dana, Calvin Day, John A. Dix, James Dixon, James Buchanan Eads, Henry H. Elliott, William Faxon, Orris S. Ferry, David Dudley Field, Andrew H. Foote, John Murray Forbes, Gustavus Vasa Fox, R.C. Hale, Joseph R. Hawley, Mark Howard, Amasa Jackson, Thornton A. Jenkins, Richard M. Johnson, James E. Jouett, Andrew T. Judson, Henry Mitchell, Edwin D. Morgan, John M. Niles, Nathaniel Niles, Foxhall A. Parker, William Patton, Hiram Paulding, J.J.R. Pease, William V. Pettit, James J. Pratt, Albert Smith, Joseph Smith, Sylvester S. Southworth, Daniel D. Tompkins, Charles Dudley Warner, Thurlow Weed, Edgar Thaddeus Welles, Mary Hale Welles, and Charles Wilkes. Microfilm edition of series 1-8 available, no. 19,740. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1988. U.S. secretary of the navy and newspaper editor. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003053 Allyn, Joseph Pratt, 1833-1869 Correspondence. Babcock, James F. (James Fairchild), 1809-1874 Correspondence. Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883 Correspondence. Burr, Alfred Edmund, 1815-1900 Correspondence. Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Correspondence. Cleveland, Edward Spicer Correspondence. Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Correspondence. Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889 Correspondence. Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870 Correspondence. Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897 Correspondence. Day, Calvin Correspondence. Dix, John A. (John Adams), 1798-1879 Correspondence. Dixon, James, 1814-1873 Correspondence. Eads, James Buchanan, 1820-1887 Correspondence. Elliott, Henry H. Correspondence. Faxon, William, 1822-1883 Correspondence. Ferry, Orris S. (Orris Sanford), 1823-1875 Correspondence. Field, David Dudley, 1805-1894 Correspondence. Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull), 1806-1863 Correspondence. Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898 Correspondence. Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 1821-1883 Correspondence. Hale, R. C. (Reuben Charles), 1812-1863 Correspondence. Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell), 1826-1905 Correspondence. Howard, Mark, 1817-1887 Correspondence. Jackson, Amasa Correspondence. Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Jenkins, Thornton A. (Thornton Alexander), 1811-1893 Correspondence. Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875. Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1781-1850 Correspondence. Jouett, James E. (James Edward), 1828-1902 Correspondence. Judson, Andrew T. (Andrew Thompson), 1784-1853 Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Mitchell, Henry, 1830-1902 Correspondence. Morgan, Edwin D. (Edwin Denison), 1811-1883 Correspondence. Niles, John M. (John Milton), 1787-1856 Correspondence. Niles, Nathaniel, 1791-1869 Correspondence. Parker, Foxhall A. (Foxhall Alexander), 1821-1879 Correspondence. Patton, William, 1798-1879 Correspondence. Paulding, Hiram, 1797-1878 Correspondence. Pease, J. J. R. Correspondence. Pettit, William V. Correspondence. Pratt, James J. Correspondence. Smith, Albert, 1805-1870 Correspondence. Smith, Joseph, 1790-1877 Correspondence. Southworth, Sylvester S. Correspondence. Tompkins, Daniel D., 1774-1825 Correspondence. Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Correspondence. Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882 Correspondence. Welles, Edgar Thaddeus, 1843-1914 Correspondence. Welles, Mary Hale, 1817-1895 Correspondence. Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 Correspondence. United States. Navy. United States. Navy History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States. Navy Department. Democratic Party (U.S.) Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Hartford times. American newspapers Connecticut. Federal government United States. Natural history. Political parties United States. Presidential candidates United States. Press and politics United States. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Slavery United States. States' rights (American politics) Connecticut Politics and government 19th century. Hartford (Conn.) History. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States Politics and government 1861-1865. United States Politics and government 1865-1869. United States Politics and government 19th century. Cabinet officers. itoamc Newspaper editors. itoamc Learned, Henry Barrett, 1868-1931. Henry Barrett Learned papers. Welles, Edgar Thaddeus, 1843-1914, ed. secretary of the navy under Lincoln and Johnson. Diary of Gideon Welles, 1911. Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. Lincoln and Seward; remarks upon the memorial address of Chas. Francis Adams, on the late Wm. H. Seward, with incidents and comments illustrative of the measures and policy of the administration of Abraham Lincoln, and views as to the relative positions of the late President and Secretary of State. 1874. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003053 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003053.3 40052 40052