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    <title>Edmund Burke papers, 1821-1881</title>
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    <namePart>Burke, Edmund</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1809-1882</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, drafts of newspaper editorials, speeches, committee reports, resolutions, commissions, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, pertaining to Burke's career as a newspaper editor in New Hampshire and as a congressman.  Chiefly incoming correspondence, relating primarily to the U.S. Patent Office and to the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island (1842), and including fifty letters from President Franklin Pierce.  Other correspondents include James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Nathan Clifford, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Daniel S. Dickinson, Thomas W. Dorr, John W. Forney, Henry Hubbard, James K. Polk, Thomas Ritchie, Gideon Welles, Fernando Wood, and Levi Woodbury.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Lawyer, newspaper editor, and U.S. representative.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Buchanan, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1868</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cass, Lewis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1866</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clifford, Nathan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1881</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cox, Samuel Sullivan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1889</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1866</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dorr, Thomas Wilson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1854</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Forney, John W. (John Wien)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1881</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hubbard, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pierce, Franklin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1869</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Polk, James K. (James Knox)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1849</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ritchie, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1778-1854</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Welles, Gideon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1802-1878</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wood, Fernando</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1881</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Woodbury, Levi</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1851</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
      <namePart>House.</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Patent Office.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>New Hampshire</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Dorr Rebellion, 1842</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New Hampshire</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1775-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Rhode Island</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1775-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1815-1861</temporal>
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    <occupation>Editors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Representatives, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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