Burton Norvell Harrison family papers
Contributors: Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920; Harrison, Fairfax, 1869-1938; Harrison, Francis Burton, 1873-1957; Harrison, J. B. (Jesse Burton), 1805-1841; Harrison, Samuel Jordan, 1771-1846
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18600
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Southern Railway (U.S.); Description and travel; Prisoners and prisons; Railroads; Poplar Forest (Va.); Land tenure; Social life and customs; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, reports, memoranda, manuscripts of articles, speeches, and books, and other papers.  Papers of J.B. Harrison include his correspondence with William W. Norvell relating to national and Virginia politics during the administration of Andrew Jackson, Harrison's travels in Europe (1829-1831), and his notes on conversations with James Madison.  Papers of Burton Norvell Harrison include letters written as private secretary to Jefferson Davis during the Civil War, afterward as a prisoner at Fort Delaware, and later as a lawyer in New York, N.Y.  Papers of Mrs. Burton Harrison (formerly Constance Cary) document her literary career and the family's social prominence in New York City.   Papers of Fairfax Harrison reflect his role as an executive with Southern Railway and include correspondence with his brother, Francis Burton Harrison, while the latter was governor general of the Philippines.  Francis Burton Harrison's papers document his advocacy for Philippine independence and diplomatic affairs during the presidential administration of Woodrow Wilson.  The collection also includes letters to Samuel Jordan Harrison from Thomas Jefferson relating to Harrison's purchase of a tract of land in Bedford County, Va., part of Jefferson's Poplar Forest estate.

Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Matthew Arnold, G.T. Beauregard, James Gillespie Blaine, Andrew Carnegie, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Clay, Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Austin Craig, Charles A. Dana, Varina Davis, Chauncey M. Depew, Lord Byron and Lady Mary Falkland, Stephen Johnson Field, Lindley M. Garrison, Ralph Randolph Gurley, Joel Chandler Harris, Benjamin Harrison, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, Robert E. Lee, Camilo Osias, Sergio Osmeña, Gifford Pinchot, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Manuel Luis Quezon, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jeb Stuart, Walt Whitman, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Francis B. Harrison, 1909-1931.

Family members represented include Burton Norvell Harrison, lawyer and private secretary to Jefferson Davis; Samuel Jordan Harrison, merchant; J. B. Harrison, lawyer and newspaper editor; Mrs. Burton Harrison, author; Fairfax Harrison, lawyer and president of the Southern Railway; and Francis B. Harrison, lawyer, U.S. representative from New York, and governor general of the Philippines.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003060