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  <titleInfo>
    <title>E. B. Washburne papers, 1829-1889 (bulk 1852-1882)</title>
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    <namePart>Washburne, E. B. (Elihu Benjamin)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1816-1887</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence covering Washburne's career as a member of Congress in the Civil War era, 1853-1869, and as minister to France, 1869-1877.  Subjects include Abraham Lincoln, appropriations, commerce, Commune de Paris, Franco-Prussian War, Germany, German residents of France, Ulysses S. Grant, seige of Paris, 1870-1871, Reconstruction, France's Third Republic, and Whig politics in Illinois and the U.S.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Cyrus Aldrich, Isaac Newton Arnold, Adam Badeau, George Bancroft, Otto Fürst von Bismarck, James Gillespie Blaine, William Harrison Bradley, Salmon P. Chase, J. C. Bancroft Davis, John A. Dix, William Maxwell Evarts, Jules Favre, Hamilton Fish, Antoine Alfred Agénor duc de Gramont, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, Murat Halstead, John Jay, Joseph Medill, Benjamin Moran, Edwards Pierrepont, Charles Henry Ray, Daniel Richard, Robert Cumming Schenck, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Daniel Edgar Sickles, Charles L. Stephenson, and Cadwallader C. Washburn.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>U.S. representative from Illinois, diplomat, lawyer, and historian.</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.ms010256">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010256</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Aldrich, Cyrus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1871</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Arnold, Isaac Newton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1884</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Badeau, Adam</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1895</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bancroft, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1891</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Fürst von</namePart>
      <namePart>Bismarck, Otto</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1898</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blaine, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bradley, William Harrison</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848-1929</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, J. C. Bancroft (John Chandler Bancroft)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1907</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dix, John A. (John Adams)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1798-1879</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Evarts, William Maxwell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1901</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Favre, Jules</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1880</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fish, Hamilton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">duc de</namePart>
      <namePart>Gramont, Antoine Alfred Agénor</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1880</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greeley, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Halstead, Murat</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1908</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jay, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1894</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lincoln, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1865</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Medill, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1899</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moran, Benjamin, 1820-1886</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pierrepont, Edwards</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1892</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ray, Charles Henry</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Richard, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1852-1882</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Schenck, Robert Cumming</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1890</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sherman, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1900</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sickles, Daniel Edgar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1914</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Stephenson, Charles L</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Washburn, C. C. (Cadwallader Colden)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1882</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Commune de Paris (France : 1789-1794)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Whig Party (U.S.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
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    <topic>Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871</topic>
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    <topic>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)</topic>
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    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Third Republic, 1870-1940</temporal>
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    <geographic>Germany</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Illinois</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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    <geographic>Paris (France)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Appropriations and expenditures</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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    <occupation>Representatives, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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