Justin S. Morrill papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10600
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; State universities and colleges; United States; United States. Congress. House; Tariff; United States. Congress. Senate; School lands; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Description: Correspondence, Senate and House reports and documents, remarks, speeches, invitations, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and scrapbooks, chiefly 1854-1898, relating principally to Morrill's congressional career, especially the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861 and the original Land Grant College Act, and his positions on many Reconstruction issues.  Correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, Salmon P. Chase, L. E. Chittenden, Schuyler Colfax, Charles Dewey, Hamilton Fish, Horace Greeley, Jedidiah H. Harris, Charles Marsh, George Ward Nichols, Carroll Smalley Page, Henry Stephens Randall, A. N. Swain, Stephen Thomas, Adin B. Underwood, and Joseph Wharton.
Notes: Open to research.

Also available on microfilm, no. 13,713.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967.

Deposit and gift, Morrill family, 1920-1942.

Gift, Elizabeth Sullivan, 1963.

U.S. senator and representative from Vermont and merchant.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009307