Manuscripts
[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Fragments of drafts of resolutions for calling a national union convention]
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Drafts of resolutions concerning the location of the capitol of Connecticut at Hartford]
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Article on evidence of rising skepticism as to the utility of national party convention]
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Preliminary drafts of Report of the Secretary of Navy]
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[Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878]. [Remarks on:] "the proceedings of the late democratic state convention [in Connecticut]"
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Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. Diary
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Letters, manuscripts (including Welles' 1846-1849 diaries), documents and ephemera covering Welles' career as a naval administrator: Chief of Bureau of Provision & Clothing for the Navy, 1846-1849; Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1869 (requests for appointments, purchase of government vessels by George D. Morgan); criticism of Welles's successor, George Maxwell Robeson, and Robeson's assistant David Dixon Porter. Naval operations during the Civil War, including blockades, letters of marque, and the capture of New Orleans in April, 1862; Welles' views on Reconstruction politics; Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson. Much of the correspondence is written to Welles' son, Edgar T. Welles.
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