05417cpcaa2200925 4500 mm 82036418 DLC 20260227111714.0 cr ||||||||||| 820525|||||||||||| eng mm 82036418 DLC dacs DLC DLC eng spa W lcmd Plumb, Edward Lee, 1827-1912. 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 transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. 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 Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 Correspondence. Campbell, Lewis D. (Lewis Davis), 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. (Charles Anderson), 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 (John 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. Diplomats. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063.3 43562 43562