Beale family papers from the Decatur House
Contributors: Beale, Marie Oge, 1880-1956; Beale, Truxton, 1856-1936; Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820; Truxtun, Thomas, 1755-1822
Language: eng
Number of pages: 4000
Subjects: Correspondence; Government relations; Indians of North America; Officers; United States; Decatur House (Washington, D.C.); American Diplomatic and consular service; Roads; History; United States. Navy; Foreign relations; Description and travel
Description: Correspondence, journals, speeches, articles, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers of the Beale (Beal), Chase, Edwards, and Truxton families.  Includes papers of Edward Fitzgerald Beale relating primarily to his role in opening the West; papers of Truxtun Beale as U.S. minister to Greece, Persia, and Romania; diaries of Marie Oge Beale; papers of Stephen Decatur; and papers of Thomas Truxton.  Subjects include Edward Fitzgerald Beale's journey in 1853 to take up his post as superintendent of Indian affairs for California and Nevada and his survey (1858-1859) for a wagon road from Fort Smith, Ark., to the Colorado River; and the Decatur House.  Correspondents include Thomas Hart Benton, James Buchanan, Simon Cameron, Roscoe Conkling, Jessie Benton Frémont, John Charles Frémont, Ulysses S. Grant and his family, John Alexander Logan, John Sherman, and Bayard Taylor.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, National Trust for Historic Preservation and others, 1959-1974.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Members of the Beale (Beal) family.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009320