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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Horace Greeley papers, 1812-1928 (bulk 1860-1872)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Greeley, Horace</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1811-1872</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>2,000</extent>
    <extent>7</extent>
    <extent>2.4</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, autobiography, writings by and about Greeley, a notebook, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed material, and other papers pertaining to his life and career as a journalist.  Documents Greeley's boyhood, his early life in New York City as printer and publisher, the growth and success of his New York Tribune, Whig politics, New York politics, the Liberal Republican Party, slavery, the bail bond for Jefferson Davis, the presidential campaign of 1872, and family matters.  Correspondents include Simon Cameron, William E. Chandler, Schuyler Colfax, Charles A. Dana, William Maxwell Evarts, Hamilton Fish, Jessie Benton Frémont, Rufus W. Griswold, John G. Nicolay, B. F. Ransom, John Sherman, Gerrit Smith, and B. F. Wade.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, transcripts. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Journalist.</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.ms009284">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009284</note>
  <note>Part of the collection was formerly among papers received from Elizabeth Mills Reid as the papers of Whitelaw Reid, Greeley's successor at the Tribune.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cameron, Simon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1889</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chandler, William E. (William Eaton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1917</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Colfax, Schuyler</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1885</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1897</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, Jefferson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1889</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Evarts, William Maxwell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1901</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>Frémont, Jessie Benton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1824-1902</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nicolay, John G. (John George)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ransom, B. F</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sherman, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1900</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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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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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1878</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greeley family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Liberal Republican Party.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Whig Party (U.S.)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>New York tribune</title>
    </titleInfo>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1872</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Printers</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Publishers and publishing</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>New York</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slavery</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Journalists</occupation>
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