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    <title>Alden Partridge papers, 1807-1959 (bulk 1817-1842)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Partridge, Alden</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1785-1854</namePart>
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  <abstract>Principally letters (1817-1842) received by Partridge from students and their parents relating to educational matters at the United States Military Academy, American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, and other academies with which Partridge was associated from 1808 to 1850; letters and documents concerning military activities during the War of 1812, a dispute between Sylvanus Thayer and Partridge over control of the United States Military Academy (1808-1817) and other administrative matters there, and Partridge's court martial (1816-1818); a library journal; student rolls; and letters or copies of letters written by Partridge, including several to James Monroe.  Correspondents include Edmund Burke, John C. Calhoun, James Gadsden, Hugh Swinton Legaré, Duncan McArthur, J. G. Swift, and Oliver Wolcott.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 14,571.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.</note>
  <note>U.S. Army officer, engineer, educator, and state legislator from Vermont.</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.ms009049">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009049</note>
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      <namePart>Burke, Edmund</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1882</namePart>
    </name>
    <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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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Gadsden, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1788-1858</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Legaré, Hugh Swinton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1843</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McArthur, Duncan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1772-1839</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monroe, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1831</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Swift, J. G. (Joseph Gardner)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1783-1865</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Thayer, Sylvanus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1785-1872</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wolcott, Oliver</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1760-1833</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States Military Academy.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Courts-martial and courts of inquiry</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Military education</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <geographic>Vermont</geographic>
    <geographic>Norwich</geographic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Engineers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Legislators</occupation>
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