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    <title>Melville Weston Fuller papers, 1794-1949 (bulk 1849-1910)</title>
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    <namePart>Fuller, Melville Weston</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1833-1910</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, scrapbooks, printed matter, and memorabilia relating to Fuller's term on the Supreme Court; his law practice, real estate holdings, and Democratic politics in Chicago, Ill.; his work as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration especially in relation to the matter of the Muscat dhows and the Venezuelan boundary dispute; Fuller's personal and family affairs; and his childhood in Maine and student life at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.</abstract>
  <abstract>Family correspondents include Henry Weld Fuller, Mary Ellen Coolbaugh Fuller, Joseph Emerson Smith, Catherine Weston Fuller Wadleigh, Nathan Weston, Paulina B. Weston, and other members of the Fuller, Weston, and Coolbaugh families.</abstract>
  <abstract>Other correspondents include Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone; Hugh L. Bond; William H. Brawley; David J. Brewer; Charles Henry Butler; Joseph Hodges Choate; Grover Cleveland; J.C. Bancroft Davis; William R. Day; John W. Doane; A.H. Garland; Stephen Strong Gregory; Walter Quintin Gresham; Benjamin Harrison; John Hay; Farrer Herschell, Baron Herschell; Henry M. Hoyt; Philander C. Knox; Heinrich Lammasch; Daniel Scott Lamont; Robert Todd Lincoln; Fedor Fedorovich Martens; William McKinley; William H. Moody; Henry C. Morris; John Morris; Richard Olney; Baron Julian Pauncefote; Erskine Mason Phelps; William L. Putnam; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root; Henry M. Shepard; Charles H. Simonton; William M. Springer; Henry Stone; Oscar S. Straus; William H. Taft; Lambert Tree; Hugh Campbell Wallace; William A. Wheeler; and George W. Wickersham.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Photographs, drawings, and prints transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Lawyer and jurist; chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Alverstone, Richard Everard Webster</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1915</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bond, Hugh L. (Hugh Lennox)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1828-1893</namePart>
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      <namePart>Brawley, William H</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1916</namePart>
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      <namePart>Brewer, David J. (David Josiah)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1910</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Butler, Charles Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1940</namePart>
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      <namePart>Choate, Joseph Hodges</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1917</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Cleveland, Grover</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1908</namePart>
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      <namePart>Davis, J. C. Bancroft (John Chandler Bancroft)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1907</namePart>
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      <namePart>Day, William R. (William Rufus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1923</namePart>
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      <namePart>Doane, John W</namePart>
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      <namePart>Fuller, Henry Weld</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1889</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Fuller, Mary Ellen Coolbaugh</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1904</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garland, A. H. (Augustus Hill)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1899</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Gregory, Stephen Strong</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1920</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Gresham, Walter Quintin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1895</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harrison, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1901</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hay, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1905</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Herschell, Farrer Herschell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1899</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Hoyt, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1892</namePart>
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      <namePart>Knox, Philander C. (Philander Chase)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1921</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lammasch, Heinrich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1920</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lamont, Daniel Scott</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1905</namePart>
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      <namePart>Lincoln, Robert Todd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1926</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Martens, Fedor Fedorovich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1909</namePart>
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      <namePart>McKinley, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1901</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Moody, William H. (William Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1917</namePart>
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      <namePart>Morris, Henry C. (Henry Crittenden)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Olney, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1917</namePart>
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      <namePart>Pauncefote, Julian</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1828-1902</namePart>
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      <namePart>Phelps, Erskine Mason</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1910</namePart>
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      <namePart>Putnam, William L. (William Le Baron)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1918</namePart>
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      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
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      <namePart>Root, Elihu</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1845-1937</namePart>
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      <namePart>Shepard, Henry M</namePart>
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      <namePart>Simonton, Charles H. (Charles Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1904</namePart>
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      <namePart>Smith, Joseph Emerson</namePart>
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      <namePart>Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Taft, William H. (William Howard)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Tree, Lambert</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wheeler, William A. (William Adolphus)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward)</namePart>
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