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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Joseph Stanley-Brown papers, 1730-1941 (bulk 1890-1899)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Stanley-Brown, Joseph</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1858-1941</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  </name>
  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
  </originInfo>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">rus</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>2,000</extent>
    <extent>9 1</extent>
    <extent>3.6</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>Correspondence, reports, briefs, notes, family papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Stanley-Brown's service as private secretary to Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester Alan Arthur, work in connection with the arbitration between the U.S. and Great Britain over sealing in the Bering Sea and on the Pribilof Islands, and tenure as a superintendent in Alaska for the North American Commercial Company.  Also includes material pertaining to Stanley-Brown's family and to his genealogical studies.  Individuals represented in the papers include Henry Wood Elliott, John Watson Foster, George Kennan, Robert Lansing, H.H. McIntyre, and Thomas C. Mendenhall.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Broadsides transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.</note>
  <note>Pictorial materials and photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.</note>
  <note>Presidential secretary, civil servant, and banker.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English, with Russian.  Much of the collection is written in shorthand.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012115">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012115</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Arthur, Chester Alan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1886</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Elliott, Henry Wood</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1846-1930</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Foster, John Watson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1917</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garfield, James A. (James Abram)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1881</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kennan, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1924</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lansing, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1928</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McIntyre, H. H. (Hugh Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1844-1906</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mendenhall, Thomas C. (Thomas Corwin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1924</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stanley family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stanley-Brown family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>North American Commercial Company.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Arbitration (International law)</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sealing</topic>
    <geographic>Alaska</geographic>
    <geographic>Pribilof Islands</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sealing</topic>
    <geographic>Bering Sea</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Alaska</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Bankers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Civil servants</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Secretaries, Presidential</occupation>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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