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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Benjamin Helm Bristow papers, 1839-1932 (bulk 1874-1896)</title>
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    <namePart>Bristow, Benjamin Helm</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1832-1896</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, biographical material, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Bristow's service as U.S. solicitor general and U.S. secretary of the treasury in President Ulysses S. Grant's administrations and to his New York City law firm.  Includes a letterpress book of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the U.S. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, concerning the whiskey frauds of 1875.  Correspondents include William W. Belknap, James Gillespie Blaine, Henry V. Boynton, George William Childs, David Davis, Anthony J. Drexel, George F. Edmunds, Hamilton Fish, William Cassius Goodloe, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marsgakk Harlan, W.A. Meriwether, Horace Porter, and Noah Haynes Swayne.</abstract>
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  <note>Army officer, lawyer, and  U.S. secretary of the treasury and solicitor general.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Belknap, William W. (William Worth)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1890</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blaine, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1893</namePart>
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      <namePart>Boynton, Henry V. (Henry Van)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1905</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Childs, George William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1894</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1886</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Drexel, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Edmunds, George F. (George Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1828-1919</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fish, Hamilton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Goodloe, William Cassius</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1889</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harlan, John Marshall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1911</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Meriwether, W. A</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Porter, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1921</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Swayne, Noah Haynes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1884</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Department of the Treasury.</namePart>
      <namePart>Office of the Secretary.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Solicitor General.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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    <topic>Whiskey frauds</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Economic policy</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1900</temporal>
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