Mason, J. M. (James Murray) 1798-1871 creator mixed material monographic eng 3,600 9 1.8 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. Open to research. 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 Earl Russell, John Russell 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 Senators, U.S. Congress mm 79031591 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229.3 Open to research. DLC 790807 20260227111656.0 mm 79031591