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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78017418
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 J. L. M. Curry, statesman, author, clergyman, diplomat, and educator, were given to the Library of Congress by his sister, Alice T. Connally, in 1911, and by his nieces, Alice Connally Cheeseborough and Curry Connally Posfay, in 1940. Additional material was purchased.
The Curry Papers were processed in 1949. The finding aid was revised in 2012. The finding aid was updated in 2024 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
A brief description of Part I of the collection appears in the
Related collections in the Manuscript Division include microfilm of originals in the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Ala.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of J. L. M. Curry is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of J. L. M. Curry 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, J. L. M. Curry Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Jabez Lamar Munroe Curry (1825-1903) consist of diaries, correspondence, an autograph collection, printed matter, clippings, memorabilia, notes and memoranda, legal papers, accounts, lectures and sermons, essays, scrapbooks, a manuscript of an autobiography, speeches and articles, and miscellaneous material. The collection spans the years 1637-1939, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1866-1903. The papers are organized into two parts. Part I is composed of a Correspondence and General File. Part II consists of four series: Correspondence , Autographs , Diaries , and Miscellany .
Included in the Autographs series are correspondence and letters (many to Curry himself) from United States presidents; Confederate statesmen; Spanish noblemen, royalty, and writers; and American and European artists, clergyman, diplomats, educators, historians, jurists, literary figures, military men, reformers, scientists, and statesmen. Among the signatories are John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Gallatin, Washington Irving, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, James Madison, Luis de Onís, James K. Polk, Richard Rush, Daniel Webster, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, and Roger Williams.
Reports, journals, writings, printed matter, and other material in the Miscellany series are organized mainly in bound volumes designated as Record Books A to G compiled by Curry. Subjects in the collection concern topics such as the Peabody Education Fund, the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen, the Southern Education Board, Curry's studies on Civil War history and the civil government of the Confederacy, and diplomatic matters in Spain.
The Diaries and much of the correspondence relate to Curry's career as an educator, diplomat, and Baptist minister. Correspondents include William Aiken, James Burrill Angel, Thomas F. Bayard, William Ashmead Courtenay, William Maxwell Evarts, Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), Melville Weston Fuller, Moses Coit Gilman, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Samuel A. Green, Henry R Jackson, Theodore Lyman, James D. Porter, Eben S. Stearns, Alexander H. H. Stuart, Moses Waddel, and Robert C. Winthrop.
This collection is arranged in five series in two parts:
Part I:
Part II:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78017418
Bound volumes of letters received by Curry and his second wife, Mary Wortham Thomas Curry. Includes reports, writings, and printed matter.
Arranged chronologically.
Bound volumes of letters received by Curry and by others after his death.
Arranged chronologically.
Letters of prominent Americans and Europeans, many to Curry, but also predating him, compiled as an autograph collection.
Arranged alphabetically.
Pocket diaries.
Arranged chronologically.