John Russell Young papers
Contributors: Young, Mary Dow Davids
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28000
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; United States Military Academy; Voyages around the world; Students; Travel; Journalism; History
Description: Correspondence, diaries, writings including an annotated biography, Dow family papers, scrapbook, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Young's career as a journalist.  Includes correspondence and diaries of Young's wife, Mary Dow Davids Young.  Subjects include national politics; world tour, 1877-1879, made by Ulysses S. Grant accompanied by Young; and a visit of Li Hongzhang to the United States.  Includes letters written by Dwight D. Eisenhower to Dorothy Mills (Young) during his years at the United States Military Academy.

Correspondents include Edward Porter Alexander; Chester Alan Arthur; Henry Ward Beecher; James Bryce, viscount Bryce; Salmon P. Chase; Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Roscoe Conkling; Jay Cooke; Augustin Daly; Charles A. Dana; Charles Dickens; Ralph Waldo Emerson; John W. Forney; James A. Garfield; Henry George; James B. Gordon; Ulysses S. Grant; Horace Greeley; Benjamin Harrison; John Hay; Oliver Wendell Holmes; O.O. Howard; William Dean Howells; Osmun Latrobe; Charles Appleton Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Anson G. McCook; William McKinley; Mrs. Stephen Crosby Mills; Edwin D. Morgan; Wendell Phillips; Whitelaw Reid; Carl Schurz; Philip Henry Sheridan; William T. Sherman; Daniel Edgar Sickles; Hoke Smith; Henry M. Stanley; Charles Sumner; Bayard Taylor; Henry Watterson; Andrew Dickson White, Dorothy Mills Young, and G.R. Young.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of diaries, 1865-1898, available, no. 17,212.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.

Gift, Gordon R. Young, Mary Dow Davids Young, and Dorothy Mills Young, 1924-1967.

Gift, District of Columbia Public Library, 1937.

Journalist, editor, diplomat, and Librarian of Congress.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.

A portion of the Ulysses S. Grant correspondence has been removed from the John Russell Young papers and placed in Series I, Subseries B of the Ulysses S. Grant papers.  It may be identified by the notation "AC.2994" placed in the lower right-hand corner of each page.