TY - GEN AU - Blaine,James Gillespie TI - James Gillespie Blaine family papers, KW - Adams, John Quincy, KW - Allison, William B. KW - Arthur, Chester Alan, KW - Blaine family. KW - Blaine, James G., KW - Blaine, Ephraim Lyon, KW - Blaine, Ephraim, KW - Blaine, Maria Louise Gillespie KW - Blaine, Walker, KW - Boutwell, George S. KW - Bristow, Benjamin Helm, KW - Burleigh, Edwin C. KW - Butler, Benjamin F. KW - Cameron, J. D. KW - Cameron, Simon, KW - Carnegie, Andrew, KW - Chandler, William E. KW - Chandler, Zachariah, KW - Childs, George William, KW - Clay, Henry, KW - Colfax, Schuyler, KW - Cornell, Alonzo B., KW - Cox, Samuel Sullivan, KW - Damrosch, Margaret Blaine, KW - Elkins, Stephen B. KW - Evarts, William Maxwell, KW - Ewing, Thomas, KW - Field, Cyrus W. KW - Fish, Hamilton, KW - Flint, Charles R. KW - Ford, Patrick, KW - Foster, Charles, KW - Franklin, Benjamin, KW - Garfield, James A. KW - Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, KW - Gladstone, W. E. KW - Gorham, George C. KW - Grant, Ulysses S. KW - Greeley, Horace, KW - Grow, Galusha A. KW - Hale, Eugene, KW - Halstead, Murat, KW - Hamlin, Hannibal, KW - Harlan, John Marshall, KW - Harrison, Benjamin, KW - Harte, Bret, KW - Hay, John, KW - Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, KW - Hitchcock, Phineas Warrener, KW - Hoar, E. R. KW - Hoar, George Frisbie, KW - Howard, O. O. KW - Howe, Timothy O. KW - Hoyt, Henry M. KW - Hunt, William H. KW - Ingersoll, Robert Green, KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Lincoln, Robert Todd, KW - Lodge, Henry Cabot, KW - Logan, John Alexander, KW - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, KW - Madison, James, KW - McClure, Alexander K. KW - McKinley, William, KW - McPherson, Edward, KW - Medill, Joseph, KW - Miller, Warner, KW - Morgan, Edwin D. KW - Morrill, Justin S. KW - Morrill, Lot M. KW - Pauncefote, Julian, KW - Phelps, William Walter, KW - Phillips, Wendell, KW - Reed, Thomas B. KW - Reid, Whitelaw, KW - Rublee, Horace, KW - Schenck, Robert Cumming, KW - Sherman, Ellen Ewing, KW - Sherman, John, KW - Sherman, Rachel KW - Sherman, Thomas H. KW - Sherman, William T. KW - Smith, Charles E., KW - Trescott, William Henry, KW - Vaughan, Benjamin, KW - Washburn, Israel, KW - Washburne, E. B. KW - Washington, George, KW - Webster, Daniel, KW - Weed, Thurlow, KW - Windom, William, KW - Wood, Fernando, KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) KW - United States KW - Congress KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Presidents KW - Election KW - 1884 KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Europe KW - Foreign relations KW - Latin America KW - Maine KW - Politics and government KW - 1865-1950 KW - 1865-1900 KW - Cabinet officers KW - itoamc KW - Representatives, U.S. Congress KW - Senators, U.S. Congress N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003039 ER -