An edition of J. M. Mason papers

J. M. Mason papers

J. M. Mason papers
J. M. Mason, J. M. Mason
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An edition of J. M. Mason papers

J. M. Mason papers

Chiefly diplomatic communications sent while Mason was Confederate commissioner. Includes correspondence; dispatches; lists of supplies for the Confederate States from London; statements and depositions regarding piracy, claims, the blockade, and other naval and marine matters; cotton bonds and warrants; circulars; and printed matter. Includes instructions to Mason from Confederate officials Judah P. Benjamin, William M. Browne, and R.M.T. Hunter as well as from the British Foreign Office and a 1862 log of the HMS Rinaldo (Sloop). Subjects include the Trent Affair, 1861; British merchant vessels; the actions of the CSS Virginia (Ironclad) at the Battle of Hampton Roads, Va., 1862; and Confederate ships in European waters.

Correspondents include William M. Browne; James Dunwody Bulloch; Alexander Collie; Henry Hotze; Caleb Huse; L.Q.C. Lamar; W.S. Lindsay; A. Dudley Mann; C.G. Memminger; James H. North; Charles O'Conor; John Russell, Earl Russell; George T. Sinclair; John Slidell; James Spence; James Williams; Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. (Liverpool, England); Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America (London, England); and Southern Independence Association, Manchester, Eng.

Language
English
Pages
3600

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Edition Notes

Open to research.

In part typewritten transcripts of papers located elsewhere made for Virginia Mason. [S.l.].

Purchase, 1912.

U.S. senator and representative from Virginia and Confederate diplomatic agent in Great Britain.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229

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Pagination
3,600 9 1.8
Number of pages
3600

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Open Library
OL25215613M
LCCN
79031591

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