MARC Record from Library of Congress

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040 $aDLC$cDLC$edacs$dDLC
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100 1 $aWirt, William,$d1772-1834.
245 00 $aWilliam Wirt papers,$f1802-1858$g(bulk 1802-1834).
300 $a1,800$fitems.
300 $a9$fcontainers plus$a1$foversize.
300 $a4$fmicrofilm reels.
300 $a2.2$flinear feet.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, writings, reminiscences, clippings, and other papers pertaining primarily to the Wirt (Werth) family, a Southern slaveholding family. Topics include social life in Baltimore, Md., Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., Christian piety, and sickness and death in the Wirt family. Also includes material concerning the trial of Aaron Burr, legal work conducted by Wirt as U.S. district attorney, Richmond, Va., 1816, and as U.S. attorney general, 1817-1829, Wirt's 1832 presidential campaign on the Anti-Masonic ticket, the efforts of Wirt and his son-in-law, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, to settle German farmers near Monticello, Fla., Wirt's book titled, The Letters of the British Spy (1803), and reactions to Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry.
520 8 $aIn addition to family members, correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Nicholas Biddle, William H. Cabell, John C. Calhoun, Dabney Carr, Robert Gamble, Peachy R. Gilmer, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Abner Phelps, Richard Rush, James Wallace, James Webster, and Lewis Williams.
530 $aMicrofilm edition available,$dno. 18,751.
533 $aMicrofilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division.$bWashington, D.C. :$cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,$d1983.
541 $cGift and purchase,$aJames F. Meegan, Alexander Randall, and others,$d1909-1957.
545 0 $aU.S. attorney general, lawyer, politician, and biographer.
546 $aCollection material in English.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003
600 10 $aAdams, John Quincy,$d1767-1848$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBiddle, Nicholas,$d1786-1844$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBurr, Aaron,$d1756-1836$xTrials, litigation, etc.
600 10 $aCabell, William H.,$d1772-1853$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCalhoun, John C.$q(John Caldwell),$d1782-1850$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCarr, Dabney,$d1773-1837$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGamble, Robert,$d1754-1810$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGilmer, Peachy R.$q(Peachy Ridgway),$d1779-1836$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGoldsborough, Louis Malesherbes,$d1805-1877.
600 10 $aHenry, Patrick,$d1736-1799.
600 10 $aJefferson, Thomas,$d1743-1826$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMadison, James,$d1751-1836$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMonroe, James,$d1758-1831$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPhelps, Abner,$d1779-1873$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRush, Richard,$d1780-1859$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWallace, James$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWebster, James$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWilliams, Lewis,$d1786-1842$vCorrespondence.
600 30 $aWerth family.
600 30 $aWerth family$vCorrespondence.
610 20 $aAntimasonic Party.
650 0 $aAttorneys general$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDeath.
650 0 $aDiseases.
650 0 $aElections$zUnited States$y1832.
650 0 $aGermans$zFlorida.
650 0 $aLaw$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLaw$zVirginia$zRichmond.
650 0 $aPiety.
650 0 $aPublic prosecutors$zVirginia$zRichmond.
650 0 $aSlaveholders.
650 0 $aSlavery.
651 0 $aBaltimore (Md.)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aGermany$xEmigration and immigration.
651 0 $aMaryland$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aMonticello (Fla.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aRichmond (Va.)$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aVirginia$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aWashington (D.C.)$xSocial life and customs.
656 7 $aBiographers.$2itoamc
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
856 4 $3Finding aid$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003
856 4 $3Finding aid (PDF)$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007003.3