James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston papers
Contributors: Johnston, Harriet Lane, 1830-1903
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1600
Subjects: Politics and government; Oregon question; American Party; Democratic National Convention (1852 : Baltimore, Md.); International cooperation; New York herald; Messages; Slavery; Nullification (States' rights); United States; Monopolies; Missouri compromise; Abolitionists; Democratic Party (Pa.); United States. Dept. of State; Crimean War, 1853-1856; Political conventions; History; Correspondence; Social life and customs; Postal service; Fashion; American Diplomatic and consular service; Democratic Party (U.S.); Presidents; Whig Party (U.S.); Railroads; African Americans; Election; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Canals; Tariff; Causes; Foreign relations; International trade
Description: Correspondence, notes, drafts of remarks, commissions, land patents, and other papers relating chiefly to Buchanan's career in the Senate, as U.S. secretary of state, and as minister to Great Britain prior to his presidency in 1857.  Subjects include Democratic politics in Pennsylvania and the U.S.; presidential politics including the elections of 1852 and 1856; the Democratic convention of 1852 held in Baltimore, Md.; the Know Nothings (American Party); the Whig Party; Afro-Americans in the Republican party; sectional strife between North and South; Missouri compromise; Kansas and Nebraska; nullification; abolitionists; the National Bank; Cumberland Road; Delaware Canal; transcontinental railroad; and notice of Buchanan in the New York Herald. Other subjects include Joel R. Poinsett's negotiations with Mexico; blockade of Mexico; Oregon question; British attempts to obtain a marine postal monopoly; trade treaties; tariffs; Ostend Manifesto; and the Crimean war.  Includes a version of the 1858 State of the Union message.  Correspondents include J. Glancy Jones.  Johnston's correspondence relates primarily to ladies' fashions, social affairs, romantic ventures, and selection of a biographer of James Buchanan.  Includes correspondence with her husband, Henry Elliot Johnston.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 16,939.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.

In part, typewritten transcripts. [S.l.].

Gift, May S. Kennedy, 1918.

Other gift, transfer, and purchase, 1903-2010.

U.S. president, secretary of state, and representative and senator from Pennsylvania.

Collection material in English.

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