Blaine, James Gillespie 1830-1893 creator mixed material monographic eng 7,000 48 21 20 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. Open to research. 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 Mrs Blaine, James G 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 Baron Pauncefote, Julian 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 Representatives, U.S. Congress Senators, U.S. Congress mm 82012914 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003039 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003039 Open to research. DLC 820525 20260227111712.0 mm 82012914