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040 _aDLC
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100 1 _aWirt, William,
_d1772-1834.
245 0 0 _aWilliam Wirt papers,
_f1802-1858
_g(bulk 1802-1834).
300 _a1,800
_fitems.
300 _a9
_fcontainers plus
_a1
_foversize.
300 _a4
_fmicrofilm reels.
300 _a2.2
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, writings, reminiscences, clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to the Wirt (Werth) family, a Southern slaveholding family. Topics include social life in Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., Christian piety, and sickness and death in the Wirt family. Also includes material concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, legal work conducted by Wirt as U.S. district attorney, Richmond, Va., 1816, and as U.S. attorney general, 1817-1829, Wirt's 1832 presidential campaign on the Anti-Masonic ticket, the efforts of Wirt and his son-in-law, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, to settle German farmers near Monticello, Fla., Wirt's book titled, The Letters of the British Spy (1803), and reactions to Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry.
520 8 _aIn addition to family members, correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Nicholas Biddle, William H. Cabell, John C. Calhoun, Dabney Carr, Robert Gamble, Peachy R. Gilmer, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Abner Phelps, Richard Rush, James Wallace, James Webster, and Lewis Williams.
530 _aMicrofilm edition available,
_dno. 18,751.
533 _aMicrofilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division.
_bWashington, D.C. :
_cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,
_d1983.
545 0 _aU.S. attorney general, lawyer, politician, and biographer.
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.ms007003
600 1 0 _aAdams, John Quincy,
_d1767-1848
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBiddle, Nicholas,
_d1786-1844
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBurr, Aaron,
_d1756-1836
_xTrials, litigation, etc.
600 1 0 _aCabell, William H.,
_d1772-1853
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCalhoun, John C.
_q(John Caldwell),
_d1782-1850
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCarr, Dabney,
_d1773-1837
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGamble, Robert,
_d1754-1810
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGilmer, Peachy R.
_q(Peachy Ridgway),
_d1779-1836
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGoldsborough, Louis Malesherbes,
_d1805-1877.
600 1 0 _aHenry, Patrick,
_d1736-1799.
600 1 0 _aJefferson, Thomas,
_d1743-1826
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMadison, James,
_d1751-1836
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMonroe, James,
_d1758-1831
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPhelps, Abner,
_d1779-1873
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRush, Richard,
_d1780-1859
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWallace, James
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWebster, James
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWilliams, Lewis,
_d1786-1842
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aWerth family.
600 3 0 _aWerth family
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aAntimasonic Party.
650 0 _aAttorneys general
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aDeath.
650 0 _aDiseases.
650 0 _aElections
_zUnited States
_y1832.
650 0 _aGermans
_zFlorida.
650 0 _aLaw
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLaw
_zVirginia
_zRichmond.
650 0 _aPiety.
650 0 _aPublic prosecutors
_zVirginia
_zRichmond.
650 0 _aSlaveholders.
650 0 _aSlavery.
651 0 _aBaltimore (Md.)
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aGermany
_xEmigration and immigration.
651 0 _aMaryland
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aMonticello (Fla.)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aRichmond (Va.)
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aVirginia
_xSocial life and customs.
651 0 _aWashington (D.C.)
_xSocial life and customs.
656 7 _aBiographers.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003.3
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_d43178