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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78025320
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 Joseph R. Hawley, editor, army officer, and United States representative and senator from Connecticut, were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Harriet Foote Hawley, in 1921.
The papers of Joseph R. Hawley were arranged and described in preparation for microfilming in 1978. The finding aid was revised in 2009.
Items have been transferred from the Manuscript Division to other custodial divisions of the Library. Photographs have been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division. Maps have been transferred to the Geography and Map Division. All transfers are identified in these divisions as part of the Joseph R. Hawley Papers. Patrons are encouraged to contact these divisions in advance of a research visit.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Joseph R. Hawley is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Joseph R. Hawley 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.
A microfilm edition of these papers is available on twenty-nine reels. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the microfilm edition as available.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Joseph R. Hawley Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Joseph Roswell Hawley (1826-1905) span the years 1638-1906, with the bulk of the material dated after 1841. The papers include a large amount of correspondence, supplemented by diaries, notebooks , a military file , business papers , speeches and statements , and miscellaneous material. The greater part of the correspondence consists of bound volumes of letters to Hawley from his friends, relatives, and political and business associates. Hawley’s correspondence also includes some unbound letters , 1846-1905, as well as a letterbook, 1889-1892, containing copies of letters Hawley sent during some of his years as a United States senator.
In addition to the correspondence, significant items in the papers include the diaries and notebooks; scrapbooks of the 1876 United States Centennial Commission, of which Hawley was chairman; notes and drafts of speeches, lectures, and other public statements; business papers such as stocks and bonds, bills and receipts, accounts and patent applications; and items such as muster rolls, casualty lists, orders, inventories of captured property that Hawley accumulated while serving from 1861 to 1866 in the Union Army in northern Virginia, the sea islands of South Carolina, and Wilmington, N.C.
The Hawley Papers, especially as represented in the correspondence, constitute an important source on student life at Hamilton College in the 1840s, the growth of the antislavery movement in upstate New York and Connecticut, the formation and early years of the Republican Party, and the secession crisis and the Civil War. The papers from the postwar period cover a wide range of topics from the activities of Union Army veterans groups to the problems of Reconstruction and the financial policies of the Republican Party in the last three decades of the nineteenth century.
The papers also include correspondence of Hawley’s wife, Harriet Foote Hawley, for the years 1856-1886. Her correspondence is mostly with friends and family, particularly her sisters, and relates to family matters with occasional comments about current events. Harriet Hawley’s correspondence with her husband, especially during the Civil War years, is part of Hawley’s bound correspondence described above.
Prominent correspondence in the collection include James Gillespie Blaine, Schuyler Colfax, Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882), Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Benjamin Douglas, Richard S. Ely, William Crowninshield Endicott, Joshua R. Giddings, Francis Gillette, Edward Everett Hale, Hinton Rowan Helper, Joshua Leavitt, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Dwight Loomis, Horace Mann, Whitelaw Reid, John Sherman, Gerrit Smith, Leland Stanford, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Charles Sumner, Albion Winegar Tourgée, Amos Tuck, Amasa Walker, Charles Dudley Warner, and Gideon Welles, as well as Hawley’s father, Francis Hawley.
This collection is arranged in seven series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78025320
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 17,595
Bound volumes of letters received.
Arranged chronologically.
Letters sent and received by Hawley and others, a letterbook, and letters received by Hawley’s wife, Harriet Foote Hawley.
Brief diaries kept as a student, journalist, and as commissioner of boundary dispute between Connecticut and New York. Notebooks kept as a student, soldier, politician, and civil servant.
Arranged in part chronologically and sometimes by subject.
Casualty lists, muster rolls, orders, ordnance requests, and courts-martial.
Arranged by subject.
Accounts, bills and receipts, deeds, mortgages, and stocks and bonds.
Arranged by type of material and therein chronologically.
Drafts and notes of speeches and statements.
Arranged chronologically.
Analecta, clippings, and memorabilia.
Analecta arranged alphabetically by subject; clippings arranged chronologically; and memorabilia arranged by type of material.