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Mss 445
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Series: Post Office Files, 1789-1893, 1908
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Box
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1789-1820
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Box
2
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1821-1824
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Box
3
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1825-1827
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Box
4
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1828-1831
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Box
5
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1832-1843
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Box
6
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1844-1853
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Box
7
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1854-1855
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Box
8
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1856-1857
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Box
9
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1858
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Box
10
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1859-1860 July
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Box
11
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1860 August-1893, 1908
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Mss 446
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Series: War Department Files, 1789-1870
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Box
1
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Adjutant General's Office: Letter Books of the Secretary of War, 1800-1867 About 600 cards : Chronological : Instructions for operation on the frontier.
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Box
1
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Adjutant General's Office: Letters of the Secretary of War to the President, 1802-1862 About 75 cards : Valuable in the study of the military and Indian policies of the United States.
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Box
2
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Adjutant General's Office: Letters of the Secretary of War to Congress, 1803-1870 About 200 cards : Valuable in the study of the military and Indian policies of the United States.
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Box
2
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Adjutant General's Office: Confidential and Unofficial Correspondence, 1814-1841 10 cards
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Adjutant General's Office: Letters Received by the Secretary of War, 1789-1867 : Valuable for study of conditions on the frontier.
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Box
2
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1789-1812
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Box
3
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1812-1821
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Box
4
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1822-1867
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Box
9
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Adjutant General's Letter Books, 1800-1865 About 300 cards : Instructions to army officers.
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Box
10
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Adjutant General's Office: Miscellaneous Collection, 1799-1852 About 150 cards : Among those that pertain directly to Wisconsin are about 50 letters from Fort Howard, 1849-1852, written by Francis Lee, B.L.E. Bonneville, and others.
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Box
5
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Adjutant General's Office, Mails and Files Division: Letters Received, 1805-1865 About 850 cards
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Box
5
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Adjutant General's Office, Mails and Files Division: Miscellaneous Papers 5 cards : Re: a conspiracy to invade Canada in 1838-1840.
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Box
10
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Adjutant General's Office: Contracts, 1799-1806 12 cards : Contracts of the War Department for furnishing rations, etc. for U.S. soldiers.
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Box
10
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Office of the Adjutant General: Orders, General, Special, 1797-1863 About 325 cards
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Box
6
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Black Hawk War, Miscellaneous Papers, 1832 April-September About 175 cards : Consists largely of correspondence among army officers regarding the war.
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Letter Books of the Department of the Northwest, 1862-1865 About 875 cards : From September 1 to November 29, 1862, headquarters was at St. Paul; at Madison to February 9, 1863; and at Milwaukee to 1865. A great part of the correspondence relates to the Sioux Outbreak but also is much on the “Indian Scares” in Wisconsin, draft “riots,” and methods of meeting the problems in Wisconsin, Ozaukee, Indian troubles, movement of troops, disciplinary details, etc.
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Box
6
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1862-1864
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Box
7
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1865-1873
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Box
7
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Department of the Northwest: Letters Received, 1862-1865 About 475 cards : Chronological : Most of the letters deal with the Sioux Outbreak and its effects on the people in the Northwest. Several letters from the Lake Superior region regard the necessity of defense against the Chippewa.
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Department of the Northwest: Orders, 1833-1837, 1862-1865 About 700 cards : General and special orders regarding placing of troops or individuals and courts-martial. Those for Fort crawford related entirely to courts-martial. Others are from Washington, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Camp Reno, Wisconsin.
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Box
7
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1862
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Box
8
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1863-1865
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Box
8
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Eastern Department: Letter Books, 1820-1841m 1849-1857 About 135 cards
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Box
9
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Eastern Department: Orders, 1821-1856 About 125 cards
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Box
8
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Eastern Department: Letters Received, 1822-1856 About 230 cards
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Box
9
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Western Department: Letter Books, 1822-1840, 1846-1848 About 250 cards
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Box
9
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Western Department: Orders, 1822-1840 About 50 cards
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Box
9
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Northern Department: Letter Books, 1818-1820, 1864-1866 26 cards
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Box
9
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Northern Department: Letters Received, 1863-1865 76 cards
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Box
9
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Department of the Ohio: Letters Received, 1861-1862 About 35 cards
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Bureau of Topographical Engineers, 1837-1865 About 1700 cards
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Box
10
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1837-1850
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Box
11
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1851-1856
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Box
12
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1857-1865
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Box
14
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Chief of Engineers: Letters Received, 1816-1857 About 375 cards
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Office of the Chief of Engineers: Miscellaneous Letters Sent, 1821-1865 About 350 cards
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Box
14
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1821-1833
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Box
15
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1834-1865
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Box
15
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Office of the Chief of Engineers: Communications to Secretary of War and Members of Congress, 1836-1862 47 cards
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Box
15
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Office of the Chief of Engineers: Letters of Chief Engineer to Officers of Engineers, 1815-1840 About 50 cards
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Office of the Chief of Engineers: Letter Books of the Chief of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, 1829-1866 About 1500 cards
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Box
12
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1829-1844
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Box
13
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1845-1866
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Box
14
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Office of the Chief of Engineers: Letters of the Chief of Topographical Engineers to the Secretary of War, 1843-1870 About 340 cards
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Box
10
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Letter Books of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, 1828-1865 About 160 cards
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Box
10
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Letters Received by Commander-in-Chief of the Army, 1823-1865 About 200 cards
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Quartermaster General's Office: Letter Books, 1818-1865 About 1700 cards
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Box
15
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1818-1837
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Box
16
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1838-1865
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Quartermaster General's Office: Letters Received, 1818-1866 About 1700 cards
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Box
16
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1818-1822
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Box
17
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1823-1859
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Box
18
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1860-1866
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Quartermaster General's Office: Letters Received, Historical File, 1818-1867 About 1100 cards
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Box
18
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1818-1831
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Box
19
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1832-1867
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Box
19
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Quartermaster General's Office: Maps and Plans, 1829-1866 22 cards
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Box
19
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Quartermaster General's Office: Letter Books, Reports and Estimates, 1833-1848 About 70 cards
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Box
19
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Quartermaster General's Office: Letters and Reports of the Q.M. General to the Secretary of War, Heads of Departments, and Committees of Congress, 1848-1863 About 85 cards
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Mss 447
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Series: Interior Department Files, 1838-1873
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Box
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Indian Division Files, 1838-1873
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Division of Lands and Railroads Files, 1820-1880
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Box
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Miscellaneous Letters Received re Railroads, 1820-1880 163 cards : These letters are segregated by railroad. Those for each railroad are tied in one or more bundles. The bundles, filed in 58 boxes, are in numberical order from 1 to 348. These letters have been removed to the General Land Office.
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Box
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Letters Received from the General Land Office, Treasury Department, Executive, State Department, and Navy Department, 1849-1878 39 cards : The cards for these groups have been combined and arranged chronologically. No summary card. They do not seem to belong to the large groups of Letters Received from the GLO in Box 2-4 below. They are marked “LR from GLO, Box X,” “L.R. from N.D. Box N,” etc.
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Box
2
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Miscellaneous Letters Received, 1847-1880 160 cards : Letters from residents of the United States to the department inquiring principally about land laws. Removed to GLO.
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Box
2
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Letters of the Secretary of the Interior relative to Land Grant Railroads, 1866-1871 45 cards : Letter-book copies. They have been removed to the General Land Office.
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Box
2
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Letters of the Secretary of the Interior relative to the Pacific Railroad, 1865-1872 14 cards : Letter-book copies. No summary card.
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Box
2
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Opinions of the Attorney General, 1851-1873 30 cards : Removed to the General Land Office.
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Box
2
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Letters relative to Wagon Roads, 1868-1870 7 cards : Letter-book copies. Removed to GLO.
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Letters Received from the General Land Office, 1824-1880 About 620 cards : In two parts. Part 1 concerns Wisconsin and Part 2 concerns the other Midwestern states. These have been removed to the General Land Office.
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Box
2
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Part 1, 1824-1856
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Box
3
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Part 1, 1857-1880
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Box
3
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Part 2, 1857-1859
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Box
4
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Part 2, 1860-1868
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Letters of the Secretary of the Interior relative to Lands and Railroads, 1849-1880 About 950 cards : Letter-book copies.
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Box
4
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1849-1859
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Box
5
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1860-1880
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Mss 448
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Series: State Department Files, 1670-1865
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Box
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American Letters, 1785-1792 33 cards : Copies of these letters are preserved in chronological order in four bound volumes. They relate to territorial affairs and the navigation of the Mississippi River.
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Box
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Domestic Letters, 1793-1865 About 700 cards : The Domestic Letters embrace all communications that were sent out over the signature of the secretary of state that are not included in the diplomatic and consular correspondence. Copies of these letters are preserved in chronological order in quarto volumes.
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Miscellaneous Letters, circa 1670-1865 About 1800 cards : With the exception of a collection of letters received from territories these Miscellaneous Letters embrace all communications addressed to the secretary of state that are not included in diplomatic and consular correspondence. They are preserved in bound volumes (400), from 1789 to 1865 inclusive, in the chronological order of the cover letters. Enclosures are often voluminous and embrace such material as journals of legislative proceedings of Territorial Assemblies.
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Box
1
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1670-1817
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Box
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1818-1846
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Box
3
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1847-1865
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Box
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Miscellaneous Papers, circa 1826-1842 About 15 cards : These were a few loose papers which properly belonged to the bound volumes of Miscellaneous Letters, and they have been incorporated with those letters since the calendar was made.
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Box
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Territorial Papers, circa 1779-1816 About 275 cards : Letters and other papers received by the secretary of state from some of the territories were segregated by territories and preserved in bound volumes. Those in each volume were in approximately the chronological order of the cover latters but some of the enclosures were misplaced. Subsequent to the calendaring of these papers the volumes were rebound with other territorial paper included and in more perfect chronological arrangement.
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Territorial Papers, Unbound, circa 1770-1835 About 350 cards : Letters and papers received by the secretary of state from several of the territories were segregated by territories. Some of these papers were bound in volumes and some were tied in bundles. Subsequent to the calendaring of them, those that had been preserved in volumes were rebound with the unbound ones, in chronological order.
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Box
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British Legation Notes, circa 1791-1865 About 350 cards : These are notes of the British Minister in Washington to the secretary of state. The original notes are preserved in bound volumes in chronological order.
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Box
4
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French Legation Notes, circa 1801-1804 11 cards : Notes of the French Minister in Washington to the secretary of state.
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Box
4
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Spanish Legation Notes, 1796-1804 31 cards : Notes of the Spanish Minister in Washington to the secretary of state.
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Box
4
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American Diplomatic Notes, circa 1815-1865 About 65 cards : Notes from the secretary of state to ministers representing foreign countries in washington. Only notes to the British minister were calendared.
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Box
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Claiborne Correspondence, circa 1770-1809 246 cards : This correspondence constitutes a portion of the territorial papers in the state department. It consists of letters received by the secretary of state from William C. C. Claiborne, governor of Orleans Territory.
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Box
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Consular Letters, 1858-1865 38 cards : These letters are autograph despatches from United States consuls at Canadian ports. Theya re preserved in bound volumes in chronological order for each port.
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Box
5
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Journals of the Continental Congress, circa 1787-1788 : These papers are copies of extracts from the Journals of the Continental Congress. Those relating to domestic affairs have been removed to the Library of Congress. The calendar covers chiefly extracts relating to the Northwest Territory.
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Box
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Instructions, 1791-1865 About 125 cards : Instructions issued by the secretary of state to diplomatic representatives of the United States in foreign counties.
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Box
5
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Letters from Governors of States, 1793-1796 4 cards : A miscellaneous collection of letters from the governors of several states.
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Consular Despatches, circa 1855-1865 About 25 cards : Instructions from the secretary of state to the various United States consuls in foreign countries. Only instructions to consuls in Canada were calendared. [These cards were not found when the cards were moved from drawers to boxes.]
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Box
5
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Despatches, 1794-1858 About 250 cards : Despatches from the United States minister to the Court of St. James in London, arranged chronologically.
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Box
5
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Despatches from France, 1791-1804 About 50 cards : Despatches from the United States minister to France, arranged chronologically.
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Box
5
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Despatches from Spain, 1793-1805 About 75 cards : Despatches from the United States minister to Spain, arranged chronologically.
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Mss 449
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Series: U.S. Senate Files, 1789-1888
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Senate Files, 1789-1888
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Box
1
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1st Congress-24th Congress (Cards #1-3220)
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Box
2
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24th Congress-28th Congress (Cards #3221-6900)
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Box
3
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28th Congress-33rd Congress (Cards #6901-10,600)
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Box
4
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33rd Congress-38th Congress (Cards #10,601-14,500)
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Box
5
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38th Congress-44th Congress (Cards #14,501-19,600)
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Box
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44th Congress-50th Congress (Cards #19,601-24,847)
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Senate File Cases, 1789-1886
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Box
6
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3rd Congress-21st Congress (Cards #1-680)
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Box
7
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22nd Congress-33rd Congress (Cards #681-3900)
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Box
8
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34th Congress-49th Congress (Cards #3901-8354)
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Mss 450
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Series: L. F. Stock Calendars, 1772-1838
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Box
1
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1772-1828
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Box
2
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1829-1838; undated
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