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_aHitt, Robert R. _q(Robert Roberts), _d1834-1906. |
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_aRobert R. Hitt papers, _f1830-1906. |
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| 351 | _aArranged in 11 series. Series 1: Biographical and Genealogical; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1865-1906; Series 3: Special Correspondence, 1892-1905; Series 4: Business Correspondence, 1882-1904; Series 5: Official Correspondence, 1874-1901; Series 6: Subject File; Series 7: Newspaper Clippings, 1884-1906; Series 8: Shorthand Notes, 1856-1904; Series 9: Photographs; Series 10: Devotional Books and Memorial Volume; and Series 11: Miscellany, 1830-1906. | ||
| 506 | 0 | _aOpen to research. | |
| 520 | 8 | _aCorrespondence, diaries, notes and notebooks, business records, family papers, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to Hitt's service as U.S. assistant secretary of state, U.S. congressman from Illinois, and secretary to the U.S. Legation in Paris, France. Also documents his service as court reporter, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and reporter for a board of treaty commissioners to the Indians in 1865. Includes shorthand notes of political events in Illinois between 1856 and 1860, in particular of speeches by Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Seward, and Edwin McMasters Stanton; debates between Lyman Trumbull and William Allen and between Trumbull and Orlando B. Ficklin; and Democratic and Republican political meetings and conventions. Also includes a diary kept by Hitt in shorthand, 1857-1864, along with a transcription of the diary describing life in Chicago, Ill., especially the courts and the court appearances of Abraham Lincoln. Subjects include the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates in Illinois; the Holt-Davis Commission of 1861, led by Joseph Holt and David Davis, investigating John C. Fremont's activities in Missouri; U.S. War Department courts-martial during and after the Civil War; intervention in Cuba during the revolution, 1895-1898; the annexation of Hawaii, 1898; tariff; and Hitt's business affairs including banking, real estate, and the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway. Hitt family papers include family histories, financial records, photographs, and other papers. Correspondents include Hitt's business agent, George Williams, of Lafayette, Ind. | |
| 545 | 0 | _aU.S. representative from Illinois. | |
| 546 | _aCollection material in English, with English shorthand. | ||
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_aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097 |
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_aAllen, William, _d1827-1881. |
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_aDavis, David, _d1815-1886. |
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_aDouglas, Stephen A. _q(Stephen Arnold), _d1813-1861. |
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_aFicklin, Orlando B. _q(Orlando Bell), _d1808-1886. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 |
_aFrémont, John Charles, _d1813-1890. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 |
_aHolt, Joseph, _d1807-1894. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 |
_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 |
_aSeward, William Henry, _d1801-1872. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 |
_aStanton, Edwin McMasters, _d1814-1869. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 |
_aTrumbull, Lyman, _d1813-1896. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 |
_aWilliams, George, _dactive 1882-1894 _vCorrespondence. |
| 600 | 3 | 0 | _aHitt family. |
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_aUnited States. _bCongress. _bHouse. |
| 610 | 1 | 0 |
_aUnited States. _bCongress. _bHouse. _bCommittee on Foreign Affairs. |
| 610 | 1 | 0 |
_aUnited States. _bDepartment of State. |
| 610 | 1 | 0 |
_aUnited States. _bLegation (France) |
| 610 | 1 | 0 |
_aUnited States. _bWar Department. |
| 610 | 2 | 0 | _aDemocratic Party (U.S.) |
| 610 | 2 | 0 | _aLouisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway. |
| 610 | 2 | 0 | _aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
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_aBanks and banking _zUnited States. |
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_aBusiness enterprises _zIndiana _zLafayette. |
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_aCampaign debates _zIllinois. |
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_aCourts _zIllinois _zChicago. |
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_aCourts-martial and courts of inquiry _zUnited States. |
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| 650 | 0 |
_aDiplomatic and consular service, American _zFrance. |
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| 650 | 0 |
_aIndians of North America _vTreaties. |
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_aIndians of North America _xGovernment relations. |
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_aLaw reporting _zIllinois _zChicago. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aLincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858. | |
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_aPolitical conventions _zUnited States. |
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_aPolitical parties _zUnited States. |
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_aRailroads _zIllinois. |
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_aRailroads _zIndiana. |
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_aRailroads _zKentucky. |
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| 650 | 0 |
_aReal estate investment _zUnited States. |
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| 650 | 0 |
_aTariff _zUnited States. |
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_aChicago (Ill.) _xHistory. |
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_aCuba _xHistory _yRevolution, 1895-1898. |
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_aFrance _xForeign relations _zUnited States. |
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_aHawaii _xAnnexation to the United States. |
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_aHawaii _xHistory _y1893-1900. |
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_aIllinois _xPolitics and government _y19th century. |
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_aMissouri _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865. |
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_aUnited States _xForeign relations _y1865-1921. |
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_aUnited States _xForeign relations _zFrance. |
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| 651 | 0 |
_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865. |
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_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1865-1933. |
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_aRepresentatives, U.S. Congress _zIllinois. _2itoamc |
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_3Finding aid _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097 |
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_3Finding aid (PDF) _uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013097.3 |
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