11698cpcaa2201669 a 4500 mm 82012914 DLC 20260227111712.0 cr ||||||||||| 820525|||||||||||| eng mm 82012914 ms 63000326 DLC DLC DLC dacs W lcmd Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893. James Gillespie Blaine family papers, 1777-1945 (bulk 1870-1892). 7,000 items. 48 containers. 21 microfilm reels. 20 linear feet. Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Diaries and Memoirs, 1871-1939; Series 2: Notebooks and Telegrams, circa 1864-1885; Series 3: Family Correspondence, 1777-1945; Series 4: James G. Blaine Letters, 1857-1892; Series 5: General Correspondence, 1831-1892; Series 6: Speeches and Writings, 1856-1892; Series 7: Scrapbooks, 1873-1893; Series 8: Miscellany, circa 1781-1943; and Series 9: Additions, 1776-1932. Open to research. Family and general correspondence, speeches and writings, diaries, memoirs, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Blaine's public career. Includes a draft of his book, "Twenty Years of Congress" (1884-1886). Documents national and Republican Party politics during Reconstruction and afterward, the presidential campaign of 1884, and foreign policy in regard to Europe and Latin America. Portions of the general correspondence and the financial papers relate to Blaine's extensive business activities. The family correspondence series deals mainly with personal and family matters, but political and diplomatic affairs are discussed throughout. Family correspondents include Blaine's wife, Harriet S. Blaine; his son, Walker Blaine; his daughter, Margaret Blaine Damrosch; his father, Ephraim Lyon Blaine; his mother, Maria Louise Gillespie Blaine; his great-grandfather, Ephraim Blaine; and his secretary, Thomas H. Sherman. The autograph collection contains single letters of Benjamin Franklin, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Benjamin Vaughan, and Daniel Webster, two letters of W. E. Gladstone, a copy of a George Washington letter, an endorsement of Abraham Lincoln, holograph notes of Henry Clay and of James Madison, and an autograph of John Quincy Adams. Correspondents include William B. Allison, Chester Alan Arthur, George S. Boutwell, Benjamin Helm Bristow, Edwin C. Burleigh, Benjamin F. Butler, J. D. Cameron, Simon Cameron, Andrew Carnegie, William E. Chandler, Zachariah Chandler, George William Childs, Schuyler Colfax, Alonzo B. Cornell, Samuel Sullivan Cox, Stephen B. Elkins, William Maxwell Evarts, Thomas Ewing, Cyrus W. Field, Hamilton Fish, Charles R. Flint, Patrick Ford, Charles Foster, James A. Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, George Congdon Gorham, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, Galusha A. Grow, Eugene Hale, Murat Halstead, Hannibal Hamlin, John M. Harlan, Benjamin Harrison, Bret Harte, John Hay, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Phineas Warrener Hitchcock, E. R. Hoar, George Frisbie Hoar, O. O. Howard, Timothy O. Howe, Henry M. Hoyt, William H. Hunt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Alexander Logan, Alexander K. McClure, William McKinley, Edward McPherson, Joseph Medill, Warner Miller, Edwin D. Morgan, Justin S. Morrill, Lot M. Morrill, Baron Julian Pauncefote, William Walter Phelps, Wendell Phillips, Thomas B. Reed, Whitelaw Reid, Horace Rublee, Robert C. Schenck, Ellen Ewing Sherman, John Sherman, Rachel Sherman, William T. Sherman, Charles E. Smith, William Henry Trescott, Israel Washburn, E. B. Washburne, Thurlow Weed, William Windom, and Fernando Wood. Microfilm edition available in part, no. 16,822. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Newspapers transferred to Serial and Government Publications Division. U.S. secretary of state, U.S. representative and senator from Maine, and journalist. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848. Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908 Correspondence. Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886 Correspondence. Blaine family. Blaine, James G., Mrs., 1828-1903 Correspondence. Blaine, Ephraim Lyon, 1796-1850 Correspondence. Blaine, Ephraim, 1741-1804 Correspondence. Blaine, Maria Louise Gillespie Correspondence. Blaine, Walker, d. 1890 Correspondence. Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905 Correspondence. Bristow, Benjamin Helm, 1832-1896 Correspondence. Burleigh, Edwin C. (Edwin Chick), 1843-1916 Correspondence. Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 Correspondence. Cameron, J. D. (James Donald), 1833-1918 Correspondence. Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889 Correspondence. Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 Correspondence. Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917 Correspondence. Chandler, Zachariah, 1813-1879 Correspondence. Childs, George William, 1829-1894 Correspondence. Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Correspondence. Cornell, Alonzo B., 1832-1904 Correspondence. Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889 Correspondence. Damrosch, Margaret Blaine, 1867-1949 Correspondence. Elkins, Stephen B. (Stephen Benton), 1841-1911 Correspondence. Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901 Correspondence. Ewing, Thomas, 1829-1896 Correspondence. Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892 Correspondence. Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893 Correspondence. Flint, Charles R. (Charles Ranlett), 1850-1934 Correspondence. Ford, Patrick, 1835-1913 Correspondence. Foster, Charles, 1828-1904 Correspondence. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Correspondence. Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Correspondence. Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918 Correspondence. Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 Correspondence. Gorham, George C. (George Congdon), 1832-1909 Correspondence. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Correspondence. Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 Correspondence. Grow, Galusha A. (Galusha Aaron), 1823-1907 Correspondence. Hale, Eugene, 1836-1918 Correspondence. Halstead, Murat, 1829-1908 Correspondence. Hamlin, Hannibal, 1809-1891 Correspondence. Harlan, John Marshall, 1833-1911 Correspondence. Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 Correspondence. Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 Correspondence. Hay, John, 1838-1905 Correspondence. Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 Correspondence. Hitchcock, Phineas Warrener, 1831-1881 Correspondence. Hoar, E. R. (Ebenezer Rockwood), 1816-1895 Correspondence. Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904 Correspondence. Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909 Correspondence. Howe, Timothy O. (Timothy Otis), 1816-1883 Correspondence. Hoyt, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1830-1892 Correspondence. Hunt, William H. (William Henry), 1823-1883 Correspondence. Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899 Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 Correspondence. Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 Correspondence. Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886 Correspondence. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 Correspondence. Madison, James, 1751-1836. McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909 Correspondence. McKinley, William, 1843-1901 Correspondence. McPherson, Edward, 1830-1895 Correspondence. Medill, Joseph, 1823-1899 Correspondence. Miller, Warner, 1838-1918 Correspondence. Morgan, Edwin D. (Edwin Denison), 1811-1883 Correspondence. Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898 Correspondence. Morrill, Lot M. (Lot Myrick), 1812-1883 Correspondence. Pauncefote, Julian, Baron, 1828-1902 Correspondence. Phelps, William Walter, 1839-1894 Correspondence. Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 Correspondence. Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett), 1839-1902 Correspondence. Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912 Correspondence. Rublee, Horace, 1829-1896 Correspondence. Schenck, Robert Cumming, 1809-1890 Correspondence. Sherman, Ellen Ewing, 1824-1888 Correspondence. Sherman, John, 1823-1900 Correspondence. Sherman, Rachel Correspondence. Sherman, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), b. 1842 Correspondence. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Correspondence. Smith, Charles E., 1836-1905 Correspondence. Trescott, William Henry, b. 1822 Correspondence. Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 Correspondence. Washburn, Israel, 1813-1883. Washburne, E. B. (Elihu Benjamin), 1816-1887 Correspondence. Washington, George, 1732-1799 Correspondence. Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Correspondence. Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882 Correspondence. Windom, William, 1827-1891 Correspondence. Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881 Correspondence. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) United States. Congress History 19th century. Presidents United States Election 1884. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Europe Foreign relations United States. Latin America Foreign relations United States. Maine Politics and government 1865-1950. United States Foreign relations Europe. United States Foreign relations Latin America. United States Politics and government 1865-1900. Cabinet officers. itoamc Representatives, U.S. Congress Maine. itoamc Senators, U.S. Congress Maine. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003039 43447 43447