MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aPlumb, Edward Lee,$d1827-1912.
245 00 $aEdward Lee Plumb papers,$f1825-1903$g(bulk 1857-1875).
300 $a3,600$fitems.
300 $a20$fcontainers.
300 $a5.6$flinear feet.
506 0 $aOpen to research.
520 8 $aCorrespondence, journals, board minutes, reports, dispatches, financial records, printed matter, maps, and other papers relating primarily to Plumb's diplomatic service in Mexico and to negotiations with the Mexican government on behalf of the United States and American investors in the Mexican railway system. Includes reports and dispatches to U.S. secretary of state William Henry Seward regarding diplomatic and political affairs in Mexico. Other subjects include steam communications, railroads, and cotton manufacturing in the American West and Mexico; the Mexican International Railroad and a proposed Tehuantepec canal and railway; Mexican insurrectionists including Porfirio Díaz; the Mexican War; and conditions in the southern states in the years following the Civil War. Also includes an account of an 1849 voyage from New York to Rio de Janeiro and then San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Correspondents include Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Lewis D. Campbell, Robert S. Chew, R.S. Chilton, Henry Clay, Edgar Conkling,Thomas C. Cox, Caleb Cushing, Charles A. Dana, William Pitt Fessenden, Hamilton Fish, Baron von Geralt, Robert Grant, David Hoadley, William Hunter, Benito Juárez, Matías Romero, Charles Sumner, J. Edgar Thomson, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Manuel Murillo Toro, and C. Lennox Wyke.
541 $cGift,$aIda H. Harper,$d1914-1926.
544 $3Two maps of the Southern Pacific Railroad$etransferred to$aLibrary of Congress Geography and Map Division.
545 0 $aDiplomat and secretary of the U.S. legation in Mexico.
546 $aCollection material in English and Spanish.
555 8 $aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063
600 10 $aBanks, Nathaniel Prentiss,$d1816-1894$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCampbell, Lewis D.$q(Lewis Davis),$d1811-1882$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChew, Robert S.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aChilton, R. S.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aClay, Henry,$d1777-1852$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aConkling, Edgar,$d1812-1881$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCox, Thomas C.,$cpublic official$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aCushing, Caleb,$d1800-1879$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aDana, Charles A.$q(Charles Anderson),$d1819-1897$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aDíaz, Porfirio,$d1830-1915.
600 10 $aFessenden, William Pitt,$d1806-1869$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFish, Hamilton,$d1808-1893$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGeralt,$cBaron von,$dd. 1879$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aGrant, Robert$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHoadley, David,$d1806-1873$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHunter, William,$d1774-1849$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aJuárez, Benito,$d1806-1872$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aLerdo de Tejada, Sebastián,$d1823-1889$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMurillo Toro, Manuel,$d1816-1880$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRomero, Matías,$d1837-1898$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSeward, William Henry,$d1801-1872.
600 10 $aSumner, Charles,$d1811-1874$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aThomson, J. Edgar$q(John Edgar),$d1808-1874$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aWyke, C. Lennox,$cSir$vCorrespondence.
610 20 $aMexican International Railroad.
650 0 $aCanals$zMexico$zTehuantepec, Isthmus of
650 0 $aCommunication and traffic$zMexico.
650 0 $aCommunication and traffic$zWest (U.S.)
650 0 $aCotton manufacture$zMexico.
650 0 $aCotton manufacture$zWest (U.S.)
650 0 $aDiplomatic and consular service, American$zMexico.
650 0 $aInsurgency$zMexico.
650 0 $aMexican War, 1846-1848.
650 0 $aRailroads$zMexico.
650 0 $aRailroads$zMexico$zTehuantepec, Isthmus of
650 0 $aRailroads$zWest (U.S.)
650 0 $aVoyages and travels.
651 0 $aHorn, Cape (Chile)$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aRio de Janeiro (Brazil)$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aSouth America$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xHistory$y1865-1877.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMexico.
651 0 $aMexico$xForeign relations$y1861-1867.
651 0 $aMexico$xForeign relations$y1867-1910.
651 0 $aMexico$xForeign relations$zUnited States.
651 0 $aMexico$xPolitics and government$y1861-1867.
651 0 $aMexico$xPolitics and government$y1867-1910.
656 7 $aDiplomats.$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.ms012063
856 4 $3Finding aid (PDF)$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012063.3