James Fowler Simmons papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21000
Subjects: Politics and government; Dorr Rebellion, 1842; Bounties; Elections; Yarn; Slavery; Cotton manufacture; Annexation to the United States; Economic conditions; International trade; Economic policy; Fearing & Hall; History; Correspondence; Whig Party (U.S.); Manufacturing industries; Abbott & Bliss; Presidents; Liverman & Cushing; Bank of the United States (1816-1836); Election; Social conditions; Tiffany, Ward & Company; Tariff; Textile industry
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, business and legal records, account books, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Simmons's cotton and yarn manufacturing enterprises, Rhode Island and national politics, and economic and social conditions in Rhode Island.   Subjects include the Bank of the United States, bounty laws, Thomas Wilson Dorr and the Dorr Rebellion of 1842, exporting and importing, William Henry Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, manufacturing, James K. Polk, the Whig Party, slavery, tariff, and the annexation of Texas.  Includes correspondence with Simmons's son, Walter C. Simmons and other family members.  Other correspondents include Lawrence F. Abbott, Charles Francis Adams, Henry B. Anthony, Hervey Armington, Zenas R. Bliss, Leslie Combs, H.G. Cranston, Robert Bennie Cranston, Asbury Dickins, Edward J. Eno, Edward Everett, William Ferguson, Elbridge Gerry, William C. Gibbs, William Hunter, Charles Jackson, George W. Jackson, Thomas A. Jenckes, Nehemiah Rice Knight, Abraham Lincoln, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Charles Potter, Richard K. Randolph, Nathan S. Ruggles, Nathan Sargent, William Henry Seward, Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge, Joseph L. Tillinghast, John Tyler, Amasa Walker, William A. Watson, and Daniel Webster; and the firms, Abbott & Bliss, Fearing & Hall, Liverman & Cushing, and Tiffiny, Ward & Co.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of selected correspondence available, no. 6,358.

Photocopies produced from correspondence available on Microfilm 6,358 in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1969.

Purchase, 1940-1942.

Gift, Whitman Bailey, 1948.

Manufacturer, political leader, and U.S. senator from Rhode Island.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.