TY  - GEN
AU  - Hitt,Robert R.
TI  - Robert R. Hitt papers,
KW  - Allen, William,
KW  - Davis, David,
KW  - Douglas, Stephen A.
KW  - Ficklin, Orlando B.
KW  - Frémont, John Charles,
KW  - Holt, Joseph,
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Seward, William Henry,
KW  - Stanton, Edwin McMasters,
KW  - Trumbull, Lyman,
KW  - Williams, George,
KW  - Hitt family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - House
KW  - Committee on Foreign Affairs
KW  - Department of State
KW  - Legation (France)
KW  - War Department
KW  - Democratic Party (U.S.)
KW  - Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway
KW  - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Business enterprises
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Lafayette
KW  - Campaign debates
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Courts
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - France
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Treaties
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Law reporting
KW  - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858
KW  - Political conventions
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - Real estate investment
KW  - Tariff
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - History
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Revolution, 1895-1898
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Hawaii
KW  - Annexation to the United States
KW  - 1893-1900
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Missouri
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - 1865-1921
KW  - 1865-1933
KW  - Representatives, U.S. Congress
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097.3
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