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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79044651
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 E. B. Washburne, lawyer, United States representative from Illinois, diplomat, lawyer, and historian, were given to the Library of Congress by his son, Hempstead Washburne, in 1904. An addition was received on exchange from the Chicago Public Library in 1946.
A finding aid to the Washburne Papers was created in 1963. After the receipt of the papers, the donor withdrew five original items from the collection in 1915, but furnished the Library with copies in a sealed envelope with the stipulation that they not be used until 1950. These items were processed in 1956.
The Washburne Papers have been described in the
An index to correspondents in part of the Washburne Papers is available in the Manuscript Division Reading Room. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division for further information.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of E. B. Washburne is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of E. B. Washburne 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.
The papers of E. B. Washburne are available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000063.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, E. B. Washburne Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816-1887) span the years 1829-1915, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1852-1882. Bound volumes of letters received constitute the largest part of the collection and feature Washburne’s career as a member of Congress in the Civil War era, 1853-1869, and as minister to France, 1869-1877. Letterbooks with copies of outgoing correspondence relate to his official responsibilities in the Paris legation, the American secretary of state, the French minister of foreign affairs, Germany, and personal matters. An index of correspondents among the letters received is available in the Manuscript Division Reading Room.
Subjects in papers dated before Washburne’s diplomatic appointment include Whig politics nationally and in Illinois, his duties in the House of Representatives, focusing on commerce and appropriations, his support for Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, and Reconstruction. Washburne’s role as minister to France is documented by official letters and communications to secretaries of state Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) and William M. Evarts as well as by correspondence with European statesmen and diplomats. Topics include the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, and politics at the beginning of France’s Third Republic. Since Washburne was the only official representative of a foreign government to stay in Paris during the seige of the city in 1870-1871 and the Commune, his papers constitute a valuable record of that period. Washburne’s diplomatic activities in behalf of German residents of France during the war are also represented in the letters.
Among the correspondents in the Washburne Papers are Cyrus Aldrich, Isaac Newton Arnold, Adam Badeau, George Bancroft, Otto Fürst von Bismarck, James Gillespie Blaine, William Harrison Bradley, Salmon P. Chase, J. C. Bancroft Davis, John A. Dix, William Maxwell Evarts, Jules Favre, Hamilton Fish, Antoine Alfred Agénor duc de Gramont, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, Murat Halstead, John Jay (1817-1894), Joseph Medill, Benjamin Moran, Edwards Pierrepont, Charles H. Ray, Daniel Richard, Robert C. Schenck, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Daniel Edgar Sickles, Charles L. Stephenson, and Washburne’s brother, C. C. Washburn.
This collection is arranged by type of material and thereunder chronologically
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79044651
An index of correspondents in letters received is available in the Manuscript Division Reading Room. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division for futher information.
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