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100 1 _aClay, Henry,
_d1777-1852.
245 0 0 _aHenry Clay family papers,
_f1732-1927
_g(bulk 1814-1852).
300 _a18,850
_fitems.
300 _a75
_fcontainers.
300 _a30
_flinear feet.
500 _aMicrofilm edition of the papers of Henry Clay in this and other collections in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division cataloged in record 97-185283. The microfilm was produced in 1957 by the National Archives under the auspices of the National Historical Publications Commission, nos. 13,707-22N (13,789-22P), 13,789.1-1N-1P and 17,343-1N-1P.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aPersonal, official, and family correspondence, speeches, writings, business records, legal files, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly documenting the public career and private life of statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852), U.S. secretary of state and representative and senator from Kentucky; and his son, James B. Clay (1817-1864), diplomat, U.S. representative from Kentucky, and Confederate sympathizer; and other members of Henry Clay's family.
520 8 _aPart I consists of general correspondence mainly relating to politics, dispatches and instructions sent by Henry Clay as secretary of state to chargés d'affaires and ministers plenipotentiary, and other papers. Topics include the Burr conspiracy; Clay's duels with Humphrey Marshall and John Randolph; the War of 1812, peace negotiations, and the Treaty of Ghent (1814); tariff, public lands, internal improvements, and other postwar domestic issues; relations with South America; presidential politics, particularly the elections of 1824, 1832, 1844, and 1848 in all of which Clay was a Whig candidate or nominee; Clay's opposition to the politics of Andrew Jackson; the rechartering of the Bank of the United States; the nullification crisis; slavery in the District of Columbia; the annexation of Texas; and the influence of New York politics and the Liberty Party on the election of 1844.
520 8 _aProminent correspondents in Part I include James Brown, Francis Taliaferro Brook, and Josiah Stoddard Johnston. Other correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Nicholas Biddle, Francis Preston Blair, Horace Greeley, William Henry Harrison, Christopher Hughes, Amos Kendall, the marquis de Lafayette, John L. Lawrence, John Marshall, James Monroe, Peter B. Porter, William Beatty Rochester, Richard Rush, John Sargeant, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, and Robert Wickliffe.
520 8 _aPart II consists of correspondence, notes, memoranda, journals, speeches, and other papers of Henry Clay's mother Elizabeth Hudson Clay Watkins, brothers Porter and John Clay, father-in-law Thomas Hart, wife Lucretia Hart Clay, children Theodore Wythe Clay, Anne Brown Clay Erwin, Henry Clay, Jr., and James B. Clay, and grandchildren. Also included are client files and other legal papers from the law offices of Henry Clay, Thomas Hart, and James B. Clay in Lexington, Ky.
520 8 _aPart II also contains correspondence, speeches, and writings of James B. Clay relating to his diplomatic service in Portugal, support of James Buchanan in the election of 1856, his congressional career as a Whig, border wars in Kansas, the unsuccessful peace convention of 1861, and blockade-running, Braxton Bragg's campaign in Kentucky, and other Civil War topics. Papers of his sons include correspondence of James Brown Clay, Jr., aide-de-camp to Gen. John C. Breckinridge, relating to Civil War military life and campaigns; journal (1878) of Thomas Jacob Clay describing U.S. Cavalry forays against Mexicans and Indians while stationed at Fort Clark, Tex.; and correspondence and writings (1880-1884) of Henry ("Harry") Clay relating to his participation in the Arctic expeditions of A. W. Greely and Henry W. Howgate. Also includes a biography of Henry Clay and other writings by James B. Clay's wife, Susan Maria Jacob Clay, and religious and fictional writings by Lucretia Hart Clay.
520 8 _aAlso included in Part II are the papers of James Morrison (1755-1823) include correspondence and records relating to his work as a contractor for the army during the War of 1812 and president of the Lexington branch of the Bank of the United States and to the settlement of his estate for which Henry Clay was executor. Morrison's papers also include those of George Nicholas (1754?-1790) for whom Morrison was executor. Financial records (1829-1868) of Transylvania University, a beneficiary of Morrison's estate, are also included.
544 _3Photographs and other pictorial material
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010
555 8 _aCard index to the collection available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
555 8 _aReel guide to the microfilm edition available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
600 1 0 _aAdams, John Quincy,
_d1767-1848
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBiddle, Nicholas,
_d1786-1844
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBlair, Francis Preston,
_d1791-1876
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBragg, Braxton,
_d1817-1876.
600 1 0 _aBreckinridge, John C.
_q(John Cabell),
_d1821-1875.
600 1 0 _aBrooke, Francis Taliaferro,
_d1763-1851
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBrown, James,
_d1766-1835
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBuchanan, James,
_d1791-1868.
600 1 0 _aClay, Henry,
_d1811-1847
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClay, Henry,
_d1849-1884
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClay, James Brown,
_d1848-1908
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClay, John,
_d1775-1829
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClay, Lucretia Hart,
_d1781-1864
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClay, Porter,
_d1779-1849
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClay, Susan Maria Jacob.
600 1 0 _aClay, Theodore Wythe,
_d1802-1870
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClay, Thomas Jacob,
_d1853-1939
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aClay family.
600 1 0 _aColton, Calvin,
_d1789-1857.
600 1 0 _aErwin, Anne Brown Clay,
_d1807-1835
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGreeley, Horace,
_d1811-1872
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGreely. A. W.
_q(Adolphus Washington).
_d1844-1935.
600 1 0 _aHarrison, William Henry,
_d1773-1841
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHart. Thomas,
_dd. 1808
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHowgate, Henry W.
600 1 0 _aHughes, Christopher,
_d1786-1849
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJackson, Andrew,
_d1767-1845.
600 1 0 _aJohnston, Josiah Stoddard,
_d1784-1833
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKendall, Amos,
_d1789-1869
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier,
_cmarquis de,
_d1757-1834
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMarshall, Humphrey,
_d1760-1841.
600 1 0 _aMarshall, John,
_d1755-1835
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMonroe, James,
_d1758-1831
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aNicholas, George,
_d1754?-1799.
600 1 0 _aPorter, Peter B.
_q(Peter Buell),
_d1773-1844
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRandolph, John,
_d1773-1833.
600 1 0 _aRochester, William Beatty,
_d1789-1838
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRush, Richard,
_d1780-1859
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSergeant, John,
_d1779-1852
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTaylor, Zachary,
_d1784-1850
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWatkins, Elizabeth Hudson Clay,
_d1750-1829
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWebster, Daniel,
_d1782-1852
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWickliffe, Robert,
_d1775-1859
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aBank of the United States (1816-1836)
610 2 0 _aLiberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)
610 2 0 _aTransylvania University.
610 1 0 _aGreat Britain.
_tTreaties, etc.
_gUnited States,
_d1814 Dec. 24.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_xHistory
_yWar of 1812.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy.
_bCavalry.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bDept. of State.
610 2 0 _aWhig Party (U.S.)
611 2 0 _aConference Convention
_d(1861 :
_cWashington, D.C.)
611 2 0 _aCongress of Panama (1826)
650 0 _aBanks and banking
_zKentucky
_zLexington.
650 0 _aBurr Conspiracy, 1805-1807.
650 0 _aDiplomatic and consular service, American
_y19th century.
650 0 _aDiplomatic and consular service, American
_zPortugal.
650 0 _aElections
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aIndians of North America
_zTexas.
650 0 _aMexicans
_zTexas.
650 0 _aNullification (States' rights)
650 0 _aPractice of law
_zKentucky
_zLexington
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_xElection
_y1824.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_xElection
_y1832.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_xElection
_y1844.
650 0 _aPresidents
_zUnited States
_xElection
_y1856.
650 0 _aPublic lands
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zWashington (D.C.)
650 0 _aTariff
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aArctic regions
_xDiscovery and exploration.
651 0 _aFort Clark (Tex.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aKentucky
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aKentucky
_xPolitics and government
_y1792-1865.
651 0 _aLatin America
_xForeign relations
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aNew York (State)
_xPolitics and government
_y1775-1865.
651 0 _aTexas
_xAnnexation to the United States.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_zLatin America.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yWar of 1812.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y19th century.
656 7 _aRepresentatives, U.S. Congress
_zKentucky.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aSenators, U.S. Congress
_zKentucky.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aStatesmen.
_2itoamc
700 1 _aClay, James B.
_q(James Brown),
_d1817-1864.
_tJames B. Clay papers.
700 1 _aMorrison, James,
_d1755-1823.
_tJames Morrison papers.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000010.3
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