05127cpcaa2200817 a 4500 mm 79031591 DLC 20260227111656.0 cr ||||||||||| 790807|||||||||||| eng mm 79031591 ms 66000234 DLC DLC dacs DLC W lcmd Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871. J. M. Mason papers, 1838-1870 (bulk 1862-1865). 3,600 items. 9 containers. 1.8 linear feet. Open to research. Chiefly diplomatic communications sent while Mason was Confederate commissioner. Includes correspondence; dispatches; lists of supplies for the Confederate States from London; statements and depositions regarding piracy, claims, the blockade, and other naval and marine matters; cotton bonds and warrants; circulars; and printed matter. Includes instructions to Mason from Confederate officials Judah P. Benjamin, William M. Browne, and R.M.T. Hunter as well as from the British Foreign Office and a 1862 log of the HMS Rinaldo (Sloop). Subjects include the Trent Affair, 1861; British merchant vessels; the actions of the CSS Virginia (Ironclad) at the Battle of Hampton Roads, Va., 1862; and Confederate ships in European waters. Correspondents include William M. Browne; James Dunwody Bulloch; Alexander Collie; Henry Hotze; Caleb Huse; L.Q.C. Lamar; W.S. Lindsay; A. Dudley Mann; C.G. Memminger; James H. North; Charles O'Conor; John Russell, Earl Russell; George T. Sinclair; John Slidell; James Spence; James Williams; Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. (Liverpool, England); Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America (London, England); and Southern Independence Association, Manchester, Eng. In part typewritten transcripts of papers located elsewhere made for Virginia Mason. [S.l.]. U.S. senator and representative from Virginia and Confederate diplomatic agent in Great Britain. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229 Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884. Browne, William M. (William Montague), 1823-1883. Browne, William M. (William Montague), 1823-1883 Correspondence. Bulloch, James Dunwody, 1823-1901 Correspondence. Collie, Alexander Correspondence. Hotze, Henry, 1833-1887 Correspondence. Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887. Huse, Caleb, 1831-1905 Correspondence. Lamar, L. Q. C. (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus), 1825-1893 Correspondence. Lindsay, W. S. (William Schaw), 1816-1877 Correspondence. Mann, A. Dudley (Ambrose Dudley), 1801-1889 Correspondence. Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888 Correspondence. North, James H. Correspondence. O'Conor, Charles, 1804-1884 Correspondence. Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878 Correspondence. Sinclair, George T. Correspondence. Slidell, John, 1793-1871 Correspondence. Spence, James, 1811-1876 Correspondence. Williams, James, 1796-1869 Correspondence. Great Britain. Foreign Office. Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. (Liverpool, England) Correspondence. Rinaldo (Sloop) Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America (London, England) Correspondence. Southern Independence Association Correspondence. Virginia (Ironclad) Claims. Cotton trade Confederate States of America. Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862. Merchant marine Great Britain. Pirates. Trent Affair, 1861. Confederate States of America Commerce Great Britain. Confederate States of America Foreign relations Great Britain. Confederate States of America History, Naval. Great Britain Commerce Confederate States of America. Great Britain Foreign relations Confederate States of America. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Blockades. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations. Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865. Representatives, U.S. Congress Virginia. itoamc Senators, U.S. Congress Virginia. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229.3 42258 42258