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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Salmon P. Chase papers, 1755-1898 (bulk 1824-1872)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1808-1873</namePart>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>12,500</extent>
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    <extent>38</extent>
    <extent>15</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, financial and legal papers, biographical material, and other material pertaining to Chase's service as a U.S. senator from Ohio, as a member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, as U.S. secretary of the treasury, and as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Also includes material relating to his law practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, and to his activities as an abolitionist.  Subjects include the Liberty Party, Ohio state and national politics, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Civil War, national finance and the development of a national banking system, creation of a national currency, the trial and impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and Reconstruction.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Daniel Ammen, Flamen Ball, Dwight Bannister, James Gillespie Birney, George Carlisle, Henry Beebee Carrington, Edward I. Chase, Philander Chase, William F. Chase, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jay Cooke, George S. Denison, Rachel Denison, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Horace Greeley, Edward Stowe Hamlin, Joshua Hanna, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, George Hoadly, Janet Ralston Chase Hoyt, John Jay, Andrew Johnson, Reverdy Johnson, A. Sankey Latty, Joshua Leavitt, Simeon Nash, George Opdyke, Richard Chappell Parsons, William S. Rosecrans, J. W. Schuckers, William Henry Seward, J. Ralston Skinner, Gerrit Smith, Hamilton Smith, Kate Chase Sprague, William Sprague, Charles Sumner, and James W. Taylor.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of a portion of these papers is available, 17,782.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1980.</note>
  <note>Abolitionist, lawyer, U.S senator and governor of Ohio, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and U.S. Supreme Court chief justice.</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.ms006011">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006011</note>
  <note>Partial index to correspondence available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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      <namePart>Ammen, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ball, Flamen</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bannister, Dwight</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Birney, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carlisle, George</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carrington, Henry Beebee</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1912</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase, Edward I</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase, Philander</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1775-1852</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase, William F</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clay, Cassius Marcellus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1903</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cooke, Jay</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1821-1905</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Denison, George S. (George Stanton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1866</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Denison, Rachel</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fish, Hamilton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garfield, James A. (James Abram)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1881</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greeley, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hamlin, Edward Stowe</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1894</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hanna, Joshua</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hayes, Rutherford Birchard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoadly, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1902</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hoyt, Janet Ralston Chase</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1925</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jay, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1894</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1875</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1875</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Impeachment</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Reverdy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1796-1876</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Latty, A. Sankey (Alexander Sankey)</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Leavitt, Joshua</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nash, Simeon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1879</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Opdyke, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1880</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Parsons, Richard Chappell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1899</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Schuckers, J. W. (Jacob William)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Seward, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1801-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Skinner, J. Ralston (James Ralston)</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, Gerrit</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1874</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, Hamilton</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sprague, Kate Chase</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1840-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sprague, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1915</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sumner, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1874</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart>Taylor, James W. (James Wickes)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase family</namePart>
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      <namePart>Department of the Treasury.</namePart>
      <namePart>Office of the Secretary.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)</namePart>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Constitutional law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Currency question</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
    <geographic>Cincinnati</geographic>
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    <topic>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)</topic>
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    <topic>Slavery</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1787-1865</temporal>
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    <topic>Appropriations and expenditures</topic>
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    <topic>Economic policy</topic>
    <temporal>To 1933</temporal>
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    <occupation>Senators, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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