Edward Lee Plumb papers, 1825-1903 (bulk 1857-1875).
- 3,600 items. 20 containers. 5.6 linear feet.
Open to research.
Correspondence, journals, board minutes, reports, dispatches, financial records, printed matter, maps, and other papers relating primarily to Plumb's diplomatic service in Mexico and to negotiations with the Mexican government on behalf of the United States and American investors in the Mexican railway system. Includes reports and dispatches to U.S. secretary of state William Henry Seward regarding diplomatic and political affairs in Mexico. Other subjects include steam communications, railroads, and cotton manufacturing in the American West and Mexico; the Mexican International Railroad and a proposed Tehuantepec canal and railway; Mexican insurrectionists including Porfirio Díaz; the Mexican War; and conditions in the southern states in the years following the Civil War. Also includes an account of an 1849 voyage from New York to Rio de Janeiro and then San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Correspondents include Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Lewis D. Campbell, Robert S. Chew, R.S. Chilton, Henry Clay, Edgar Conkling,Thomas C. Cox, Caleb Cushing, Charles A. Dana, William Pitt Fessenden, Hamilton Fish, Baron von Geralt, Robert Grant, David Hoadley, William Hunter, Benito Juárez, Matías Romero, Charles Sumner, J. Edgar Thomson, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Manuel Murillo Toro, and Sir C. Lennox Wyke.
Two maps of the Southern Pacific Railroad Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. transferred to
Diplomat and secretary of the U.S. legation in Mexico.
Collection material in English and Spanish.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063
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Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 --Correspondence. Campbell, Lewis D. 1811-1882 --Correspondence. Chew, Robert S.--Correspondence. Chilton, R. S.--Correspondence. Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 --Correspondence. Conkling, Edgar, 1812-1881 --Correspondence. Cox, Thomas C., public official --Correspondence. Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879 --Correspondence. Dana, Charles A. 1819-1897 --Correspondence. Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915. Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 --Correspondence. Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893 --Correspondence. Geralt, Baron von, -1879 --Correspondence. Grant, Robert--Correspondence. Hoadley, David, 1806-1873 --Correspondence. Hunter, William, 1774-1849 --Correspondence. Juárez, Benito, 1806-1872 --Correspondence. Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastián, 1823-1889 --Correspondence. Murillo Toro, Manuel, 1816-1880 --Correspondence. Romero, Matías, 1837-1898 --Correspondence. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872. Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 --Correspondence. Thomson, J. Edgar 1808-1874 --Correspondence. Wyke, C. Lennox, Sir --Correspondence.
Mexican International Railroad.
Canals--Mexico--Tehuantepec, Isthmus of Communication and traffic--Mexico. Communication and traffic--West (U.S.) Cotton manufacture--Mexico. Cotton manufacture--West (U.S.) Diplomatic and consular service, American--Mexico. Insurgency--Mexico. Mexican War, 1846-1848. Railroads--Mexico. Railroads--Mexico--Tehuantepec, Isthmus of Railroads--West (U.S.) Voyages and travels.
Horn, Cape (Chile)--Description and travel. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Description and travel. San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel. South America--Description and travel. Southern States--History--1865-1877. United States--Foreign relations--Mexico. Mexico--Foreign relations--1861-1867. Mexico--Foreign relations--1867-1910. Mexico--Foreign relations--United States. Mexico--Politics and government--1861-1867. Mexico--Politics and government--1867-1910.