Edmund Ruffin diaries, 1856-1865
14 volumes ; 14 containers ; 3.2 linear feet ; 7 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Plantation owner and publisher. Diaries detailing Ruffin's activities and opinions as an experimentalist in agriculture, anti-Unionist and slavery advocate, and describing plantation life in his Virginia estates.
William Plumer papers, 1774-1845
1,800 items ; 20 containers ; 3.8 linear feet ; 6 microfilm reels -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Governor of New Hampshire and legislator, United States senator from New Hampshire, essayist, and historian. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, autobiography, writings, notes, transcripts of poetry, essays, extracts, and other papers relating to Plumer’s personal life and career in New Hampshire and national politics and as an essayist.
Feamster family papers, 1794-1967
3,000 items ; 5 containers ; 2 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Members of the Feamster (Feemster) family. Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, and miscellaneous material illustrating the activities of four interrelated families from 1794 to 1967 whose members were engaged in farming, the law, medicine, the military, politics, religion, and other pursuits in Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas,...
Theodore Francis Green papers, 1924-1960
400,000 items ; 1,134 containers plus 7 oversize ; 455 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States senator and governor of Rhode Island and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, subject and chronological files, clippings, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating principally to Green's senatorial career.
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T. Swann Harding papers, 1918-1963
1,800 items ; 6 containers ; 2.4 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, editor, and civil servant. Chiefly letters from editors and publishers concerning publication of Harding’s books and articles on literary and scientific matters. Includes a typescript of his unpublished work entitled, “110 Years of Federal Aid to Agriculture.”
Robert Worth Bingham papers, 1856-1939
12,600 items ; 41 containers plus 8 oversize ; 20.4 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomat, lawyer, and newspaper publisher. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, financial records, scrapbooks, appointment books, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Bingham's service as ambassador to Great Britain.
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Joseph Sanford Wade papers, 1898-1955
14,000 items ; 32 containers ; 10 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Zoologist and entomologist. Correspondence, notes, journals, and scientific and literary writings relating primarily to Wade’s career as a scientist.
Barnett Allen Howard papers, 1885-1949
13 items ; 2 containers ; 0.8 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Farmer, preacher, and trader. Memoirs documenting Howard's life as well as genealogical material, legal documents, and printed matter.
William Edgar Borah papers, 1905-1940
260,000 items ; 880 containers plus 2 oversize ; 352.4 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Lawyer and United States senator from Idaho. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, subject and legislative files, speeches and articles, patronage and constituent files, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and other material relating primarily to Borah's political interests and career in the Senate.
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Charles Albert Browne papers, 1783-1947
20,000 items ; 36 containers plus 2 oversize ; 14.5 linear feet -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Chemist, food technologist, and historian of science. Correspondence, writings, accounts of foreign travel, autographs of past luminaries, and research material relating primarily Browne's work in the history of chemistry and agriculture.