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040 _aDLC
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100 1 _aPlumb, Edward Lee,
_d1827-1912.
245 0 0 _aEdward Lee Plumb papers,
_f1825-1903
_g(bulk 1857-1875).
300 _a3,600
_fitems.
300 _a20
_fcontainers.
300 _a5.6
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
520 8 _aCorrespondents 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.
544 _3Two maps of the Southern Pacific Railroad
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Geography and Map Division.
545 0 _aDiplomat and secretary of the U.S. legation in Mexico.
546 _aCollection material in English and Spanish.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063
600 1 0 _aBanks, Nathaniel Prentiss,
_d1816-1894
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCampbell, Lewis D.
_q(Lewis Davis),
_d1811-1882
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChew, Robert S.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aChilton, R. S.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aClay, Henry,
_d1777-1852
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aConkling, Edgar,
_d1812-1881
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCox, Thomas C.,
_cpublic official
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCushing, Caleb,
_d1800-1879
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDana, Charles A.
_q(Charles Anderson),
_d1819-1897
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDíaz, Porfirio,
_d1830-1915.
600 1 0 _aFessenden, William Pitt,
_d1806-1869
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFish, Hamilton,
_d1808-1893
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGeralt,
_cBaron von,
_d-1879
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGrant, Robert
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHoadley, David,
_d1806-1873
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHunter, William,
_d1774-1849
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJuárez, Benito,
_d1806-1872
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLerdo de Tejada, Sebastián,
_d1823-1889
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMurillo Toro, Manuel,
_d1816-1880
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRomero, Matías,
_d1837-1898
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSeward, William Henry,
_d1801-1872.
600 1 0 _aSumner, Charles,
_d1811-1874
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aThomson, J. Edgar
_q(John Edgar),
_d1808-1874
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWyke, C. Lennox,
_cSir
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aMexican International Railroad.
650 0 _aCanals
_zMexico
_zTehuantepec, Isthmus of
650 0 _aCommunication and traffic
_zMexico.
650 0 _aCommunication and traffic
_zWest (U.S.)
650 0 _aCotton manufacture
_zMexico.
650 0 _aCotton manufacture
_zWest (U.S.)
650 0 _aDiplomatic and consular service, American
_zMexico.
650 0 _aInsurgency
_zMexico.
650 0 _aMexican War, 1846-1848.
650 0 _aRailroads
_zMexico.
650 0 _aRailroads
_zMexico
_zTehuantepec, Isthmus of
650 0 _aRailroads
_zWest (U.S.)
650 0 _aVoyages and travels.
651 0 _aHorn, Cape (Chile)
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aRio de Janeiro (Brazil)
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aSan Francisco (Calif.)
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aSouth America
_xDescription and travel.
651 0 _aSouthern States
_xHistory
_y1865-1877.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_zMexico.
651 0 _aMexico
_xForeign relations
_y1861-1867.
651 0 _aMexico
_xForeign relations
_y1867-1910.
651 0 _aMexico
_xForeign relations
_zUnited States.
651 0 _aMexico
_xPolitics and government
_y1861-1867.
651 0 _aMexico
_xPolitics and government
_y1867-1910.
656 7 _aDiplomats.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063.3
999 _c43562
_d43562