Plumb, Edward Lee 1827-1912 creator mixed material monographic eng spa 3,600 20 5.6 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. Open to research. 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 public official Cox, Thomas C 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 Baron von Geralt -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 Sir Wyke, C. Lennox 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 mm 82036418 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063.3 Open to research. DLC 820525 20260227111714.0 mm 82036418