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100 1 _aWelles, Gideon,
_d1802-1878.
245 0 0 _aGideon Welles papers,
_f1777-1911
_g(bulk 1820-1876).
300 _a15,070
_fitems.
300 _a45
_fcontainers plus
_a1
_foversize.
300 _a36
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a18.2
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged in 10 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1824-1869; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1862-1869; Series 3: Correspondence, 1820-1878; Series 4: Records of the Navy Department, 1805-1878; Series 5: Speeches and Writings, 1822-1878; Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1834-1900; Series 7: Miscellany, 1777-1911; Series 8: Henry B. Learned Papers, 1899-1911; Series 9: Additions, 1822-1877; and Series 10: Oversize, 1842-1860.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, diaries, writings, naval records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Welles's work as editor of the Hartford Times; his activities as a member of the Democratic Party and, later, the Republican Party in Connecticut state and national politics; his service as U.S. secretary of the navy; and his literary pursuits. Subjects include the role of the U.S. Navy in the Civil War, the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, Welles's commitment to the principles of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, the Civil War and Reconstruction, limits and uses of federal and states powers, natural history, naval affairs, relation of newspaper policy and politics, presidential candidates, political parties, and slavery. Includes a fifteen-volume diary kept by Welles as U.S. secretary of the navy; a three-volume restrospective narrative plus notes and journal entries for his early life; drafts of Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson (1911), edited by Welles's son, Edgar Thaddeus Welles; and a draft of Welles's book, Lincoln and Seward (1874). Also includes notes of historian Henry Barrett Learned relating to Welles.
520 8 _aCorrespondents include Joseph Pratt Allyn, James F. Babcock, Montgomery Blair, Alfred Edmund Burr, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Spicer Cleveland, Schuyler Colfax, Samuel Sullivan Cox, John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, Charles A. Dana, Calvin Day, John A. Dix, James Dixon, James Buchanan Eads, Henry H. Elliott, William Faxon, Orris S. Ferry, David Dudley Field, Andrew H. Foote, John Murray Forbes, Gustavus Vasa Fox, R.C. Hale, Joseph R. Hawley, Mark Howard, Amasa Jackson, Thornton A. Jenkins, Richard M. Johnson, James E. Jouett, Andrew T. Judson, Henry Mitchell, Edwin D. Morgan, John M. Niles, Nathaniel Niles, Foxhall A. Parker, William Patton, Hiram Paulding, J.J.R. Pease, William V. Pettit, James J. Pratt, Albert Smith, Joseph Smith, Sylvester S. Southworth, Daniel D. Tompkins, Charles Dudley Warner, Thurlow Weed, Edgar Thaddeus Welles, Mary Hale Welles, and Charles Wilkes.
530 _aMicrofilm edition of series 1-8 available,
_dno. 19,740.
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,
_d1988.
545 0 _aU.S. secretary of the navy and newspaper editor.
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.ms003053
600 1 0 _aAllyn, Joseph Pratt,
_d1833-1869
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBabcock, James F.
_q(James Fairchild),
_d1809-1874
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBlair, Montgomery,
_d1813-1883
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBurr, Alfred Edmund,
_d1815-1900
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChase, Salmon P.
_q(Salmon Portland),
_d1808-1873
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCleveland, Edward Spicer
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aColfax, Schuyler,
_d1823-1885
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCox, Samuel Sullivan,
_d1824-1889
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard,
_d1809-1870
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDana, Charles A.
_q(Charles Anderson),
_d1819-1897
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDay, Calvin
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDix, John A.
_q(John Adams),
_d1798-1879
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDixon, James,
_d1814-1873
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEads, James Buchanan,
_d1820-1887
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aElliott, Henry H.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFaxon, William,
_d1822-1883
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFerry, Orris S.
_q(Orris Sanford),
_d1823-1875
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aField, David Dudley,
_d1805-1894
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFoote, Andrew H.
_q(Andrew Hull),
_d1806-1863
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aForbes, John Murray,
_d1813-1898
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFox, Gustavus Vasa,
_d1821-1883
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHale, R. C.
_q(Reuben Charles),
_d1812-1863
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHawley, Joseph R.
_q(Joseph Roswell),
_d1826-1905
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHoward, Mark,
_d1817-1887
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJackson, Amasa
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJackson, Andrew,
_d1767-1845.
600 1 0 _aJefferson, Thomas,
_d1743-1826.
600 1 0 _aJenkins, Thornton A.
_q(Thornton Alexander),
_d1811-1893
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJohnson, Andrew,
_d1808-1875.
600 1 0 _aJohnson, Richard M.
_q(Richard Mentor),
_d1781-1850
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJouett, James E.
_q(James Edward),
_d1828-1902
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJudson, Andrew T.
_q(Andrew Thompson),
_d1784-1853
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLincoln, Abraham,
_d1809-1865.
600 1 0 _aMitchell, Henry,
_d1830-1902
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMorgan, Edwin D.
_q(Edwin Denison),
_d1811-1883
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aNiles, John M.
_q(John Milton),
_d1787-1856
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aNiles, Nathaniel,
_d1791-1869
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aParker, Foxhall A.
_q(Foxhall Alexander),
_d1821-1879
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPatton, William,
_d1798-1879
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPaulding, Hiram,
_d1797-1878
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPease, J. J. R.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPettit, William V.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPratt, James J.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSmith, Albert,
_d1805-1870
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSmith, Joseph,
_d1790-1877
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSouthworth, Sylvester S.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTompkins, Daniel D.,
_d1774-1825
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWarner, Charles Dudley,
_d1829-1900
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWeed, Thurlow,
_d1797-1882
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWelles, Edgar Thaddeus,
_d1843-1914
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWelles, Mary Hale,
_d1817-1895
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilkes, Charles,
_d1798-1877
_vCorrespondence.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNavy Department.
610 2 0 _aDemocratic Party (U.S.)
610 2 0 _aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
630 0 0 _aHartford times.
650 0 _aAmerican newspapers
_zConnecticut.
650 0 _aFederal government
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aNatural history.
650 0 _aPolitical parties
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPresidential candidates
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPress and politics
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
651 0 _aSlavery
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aStates' rights (American politics)
651 0 _aConnecticut
_xPolitics and government
_y19th century.
651 0 _aHartford (Conn.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1861-1865.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1865-1869.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y19th century.
656 7 _aCabinet officers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aNewspaper editors.
_2itoamc
700 1 _aLearned, Henry Barrett,
_d1868-1931.
_tHenry Barrett Learned papers.
700 1 _aWelles, Edgar Thaddeus,
_d1843-1914,
_eed.
_bsecretary of the navy under Lincoln and Johnson.
_tDiary of Gideon Welles,
_f1911.
700 1 _aWelles, Gideon,
_d1802-1878.
_tLincoln and Seward; remarks upon the memorial address of Chas. Francis Adams, on the late Wm. H. Seward, with incidents and comments illustrative of the measures and policy of the administration of Abraham Lincoln, and views as to the relative positions of the late President and Secretary of State.
_f1874.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003053
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003053.3
999 _c40052
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