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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79019174
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of the James Dunlop family were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1936.
The papers of the Dunlop family were arranged and described in 1963. The collection was revised in 2007.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Dunlop family is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Dunlop family are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Dunlop Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of the Dunlop family consist of correspondence, business records, legal files, wills, indentures, estate papers, financial papers, speeches, printed matter, and miscellaneous items and span the years 1713-1930 with the bulk of the material dating from 1776 to 1876. The papers are organized in the following series: General Correspondence, Business Records, Legal File, Financial Records, Miscellany, and Oversize.
The collection contains family letters from 1776 to 1816 and from 1840 to 1860. General correspondence, legal papers, and financial and business records from 1775 to 1825 document the tobacco and grain business of James Dunlop I (1724-1790) and James Dunlop II (1755-1824) in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; New York; Glasgow; and London. Similar material highlights the Washington law practice of Robert P. Dunlop and his brother, James Dunlop III (b. 1793), a lawyer and judge of the Criminal and Circuit Courts of the District of Columbia.
The Miscellany series includes school and collegiate papers and records of Francis Key Dunlop and William Laird Dunlop, sons of James Dunlop III, material concerning the court martial of Samuel W. Downing, Eliza Biddle's diary, land deeds, lot numbers, and surveys in Washington, D.C., and vicinity, and papers relating to the Union Turnpike and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
Principal business correspondents include Andrew Buchanan, David Buchanan, James Buchanan, James Campbell, Thomas Hyde, John Laird, William S. Nicholls, Henry Ritchie, James Ritchie, James Robertson, William Robertson, Michael Wallace, and Hugh Wyllie.
Other family correspondents include Barbara Laird Dunlop, Grace Dunlop, William Dunlop, and William Laird.
This collection is arranged in six series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79019174
Letters received from various correspondents including Dunlop family members.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence, memoranda, legal records, estate papers, accounts and receipts, and miscellaneous items.
Arranged chronologically.
Correspondence, memoranda, indentures, estate papers, certificates, court orders, and miscellaneous legal records.
Arranged chronologically.
Account books, accounts and receipts, and miscellaneous financial records.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically therein.
Correspondence, genealogical papers, diary, school records, land deeds and surveys, photographs, notes, speeches, printed matter, miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.
Judicial appointments, land deeds, and surveys.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.