Hitt, Robert R. (Robert Roberts) 1834-1906 creator mixed material monographic eng 2,200 42 16.8 Correspondence, diaries, notes and notebooks, business records, family papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to Hitt's service as U.S. assistant secretary of state, U.S. congressman from Illinois, and secretary to the U.S. Legation in Paris, France. Also documents his service as court reporter, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and reporter for a board of treaty commissioners to the Indians in 1865. Includes shorthand notes of political events in Illinois between 1856 and 1860, in particular of speeches by Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Seward, and Edwin McMasters Stanton; debates between Lyman Trumbull and William Allen and between Trumbull and Orlando B. Ficklin; and Democratic and Republican political meetings and conventions. Also includes a diary kept by Hitt in shorthand, 1857-1864, along with a transcription of the diary describing life in Chicago, Ill., especially the courts and the court appearances of Abraham Lincoln. Subjects include the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates in Illinois; the Holt-Davis Commission of 1861, led by Joseph Holt and David Davis, investigating John C. Fremont's activities in Missouri; U.S. War Department courts-martial during and after the Civil War; intervention in Cuba during the revolution, 1895-1898; the annexation of Hawaii, 1898; tariff; and Hitt's business affairs including banking, real estate, and the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway. Hitt family papers include family histories, financial records, photographs, and other papers. Correspondents include Hitt's business agent, George Williams, of Lafayette, Ind. Open to research. U.S. representative from Illinois. Collection material in English, with English shorthand. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097 Allen, William 1827-1881 Davis, David 1815-1886 Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold) 1813-1861 Ficklin, Orlando B. (Orlando Bell) 1808-1886 Frémont, John Charles 1813-1890 Holt, Joseph 1807-1894 Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Seward, William Henry 1801-1872 Stanton, Edwin McMasters 1814-1869 Trumbull, Lyman 1813-1896 Williams, George active 1882-1894 Correspondence Hitt family United States. Congress. House. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. United States. Department of State. United States. Legation (France) United States. War Department. Democratic Party (U.S.) Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Banks and banking United States Business enterprises Indiana Lafayette Campaign debates Illinois Courts Illinois Chicago Courts-martial and courts of inquiry United States Diplomatic and consular service, American France Indians of North America Treaties Indians of North America Government relations Law reporting Illinois Chicago Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 Political conventions United States Political parties United States Railroads Illinois Railroads Indiana Railroads Kentucky Real estate investment United States Tariff United States Chicago (Ill.) History Cuba History Revolution, 1895-1898 France Foreign relations United States Hawaii Annexation to the United States Hawaii History 1893-1900 Illinois Politics and government 19th century Missouri History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States Foreign relations 1865-1921 United States Foreign relations France United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States Politics and government 1865-1933 Representatives, U.S. Congress mm 79026104 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097.3 Open to research. DLC 790410 20260227111655.0 mm 79026104 eng