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George Mifflin Dallas papers

Description: Letters, many marked "Private" and "Confidential," received by George Dallas during his term as the American minister to Great Britain from the Secretary of State William Learned Marcy, American Senator Lewis Cass, as well as George Villers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and his office. The correspondence deals primarily with the Dallas-Clarendon Convention. There are also drafts of the treaty and other preparatory materials, including a printed text with revisions made in the Senate, March 1857, and Dallas's notes on Jay's Treaty. Some letters also discuss the reception of the HMS Resolute, privateering and the right of search and seizure, political consequences of the 1856 elections, and other matters.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1849-1859
Call number: mssHM 16236-16280
Creator: Dallas, George Mifflin (1792-1864)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of August 1946.
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Associated people: Cass, Lewis, (1782-1866,); Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers, (1800-1870,); Marcy, William L. (1786-1857,)
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George Mifflin Dallas papers

Manuscripts

Letters, many marked "Private" and "Confidential," received by George Dallas during his term as the American minister to Great Britain from the Secretary of State William Learned Marcy, American Senator Lewis Cass, as well as George Villers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and his office. The correspondence deals primarily with the Dallas-Clarendon Convention. There are also drafts of the treaty and other preparatory materials, including a printed text with revisions made in the Senate, March 1857, and Dallas's notes on Jay's Treaty. Some letters also discuss the reception of the HMS Resolute, privateering and the right of search and seizure, political consequences of the 1856 elections, and other matters.

mssHM 16236-16280

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George Mifflin Dallas letter

Manuscripts

A collection of approximately 6000 items from 1815 to 1936, the collection consists of Francis Lieber's correspondence, notes and other manuscripts and published materials accumulated in the preparation of his works during his political and academic career. The collection contains articles, essays, remarks, correspondence, volumes, commonplace books, research files, printed material, and ephemera. The manuscript material often contains various drafts, with supporting research and subject files; the correspondence contains personal and family letters and a large amount of professional correspondence. Correspondents include, among others, his wife Matilda (Mathilde) Lieber, other Lieber family members, Samuel Austin Allibone, Edward Bates, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Simon Greenleaf, Henry Wager Halleck, George Stillman Hillard, ⁹douard Laboulaye, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, Charles Sumner, Martin Russell Thayer, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Subjects in the collection include political science and theory; constitutional history; political economy; international law; philosophy and history of civilization; penology, including Lieber's association with the prison reform movement; education, particularly college and university administration; United States and European politics; antebellum debates and campaigns; slavery and abolitionism; politics of the Civil War, including problems of the citizenship of African-Americans, immigrants, and former Confederates; constitutional powers of the President and Congress; Republican Party, especially its radical wing; military aspects of the Civil War as reflected in Lieber's correspondence with Halleck; reconstruction, including plans for codification of international law; and Lieber's service with the United States-Mexican Claims Commission.

LI 1194

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George Mifflin Dallas letter

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LI 1196

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Alexander Dallas Bache papers

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Chiefly letters addressed to Bache relating to Girard College, including Bache's presidency and his tour of Britain and the Continent preparatory to formulating a plan for this institution; the United States Coast Survey, chiefly concerning the personnel; Bache's scientific interests, particularly in the field of terrestrial magnetism; establishment of scientific institutions and departments of science, interest in and support of expeditions, including Commodore Perry's 1853 expedition to Japan, Elisha Kent Kane's expedition to northwestern Greenland (1853-1855), and Arctic expeditions of Isaac Israel Hayes; correspondence with American and European colleagues.

mssRH Boxes 12-35

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Andrew Johnson, Washington, D.C., order to Secretary of State William H. Seward :

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Authorizing and directing the secretary of state to affix the seal of the United States to the "proclamation of the Treaty for the cession of Russian Possessions in North America to the United States," referring to the treaty finalizing the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia, which had been signed March 30, 1867; formal transfer of the territory occurred on October 18, 1867.

mssHM 2023

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Andrew Johnson, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., appointment of Thomas Murphy, John B. Sanborn, Kit Carson, William W. Bent :

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Appointment of Kit Carson, William W. Bent, Brigadier General J.B. (John Benjamin) Sanborn, and Superintendent for Indian Affairs for the Central Superintendency Thomas Murphy as "Commissioners to negotiate a treaty or treaties, under instructions of the Secretary of Interior, with the Comanche, Kiowa, Arrapahoe [Arapaho] and Apache Indians, who have agreed to meet at Bluff Creek below the mouth of the Little Arkansas River, on the fourth day of October next, to enter into a treaty of peace with the United States." Signed by Andrew Johnson.

mssHM 13238

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