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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79015610
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 Salmon P. Chase, abolitionist, lawyer, United States senator, governor of Ohio, United States secretary of the treasury, and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, were purchased by the Library of Congress, 1902-2009.
The papers of Salmon P. Chase were processed and prepared for microfilming in 1979. The finding aid was revised and an item that had previously been cataloged separately was transferred to the collection in 2003. Two additional items were added in 2010.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Salmon P. Chase is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Salmon P. Chase 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 part of these papers is available on thirty-eight reels. Consult reference staff 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.
The papers of Salmon P. Chase are available on the Library of Congress Web site at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000036.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) cover the years 1755-1898, with the bulk of the material spanning 1824-1872. The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, memoranda, financial papers, legal documents, and miscellany.
The early diaries are more intimate and detailed than later ones. The first volume includes marginalia citing names of people, topics, or events discussed in the adjacent text. References to people are generally accompanied by biographical information. The diaries covering the years 1861-1864 document Chase's participation in the formulation of policy and events relating to the Civil War. The diary for 9 December 1861 to 30 September 1863 contains Chase's draft of Lincoln's 6 March 1862 message to Congress on the abolition of slavery, three letters from Chase to his daughter, Janet, written 7, 8, and 11 May 1862 on "The Taking of Norfolk," and a "Narrative of Operations" of the war from 11 May to 24 June 1862. An account of the cabinet meeting at which Lincoln proposed the Emancipation Proclamation is in the diary covering the period 20 July to 12 October 1862 published later by the American Historical Association as volume two of its
All facets of Chase's public career are covered in the General Correspondence series. Early letters relate to Chase's law practice, Ohio and national politics, the Liberty Party, and his opposition to slavery. During his years as secretary of the treasury, the correspondence centers on problems of national finance, the establishment of a national banking system, routine operations of the Treasury Department, and the military operations of the Civil War. This segment of correspondence contains letters from George S. Denison, who served in various capacities as Chase's official and personal representative in New Orleans from June 1862 to March 1865. In the years following his appointment as chief justice of the United States, the letters reflect Chase's continued interest in national matters, politics, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the creation of a national currency, and the progress of Reconstruction as well as Chase's involvement with cases and other business of the Supreme Court and the circuit courts. An incomplete card index to the correspondence is located in the Manuscript Division Reading Room.
The Letterbooks and Letterpress Copybooks series treats the same topics found in the General Correspondence. Some volumes are indexed, and most include a few family letters. A number of letters written after 1870 are represented by notes rather than by copies of the letters themselves. The letterbook for 1833-1837 consists solely of letters of the law firm of Caswell and Chase, and the letterbook for September 1870-June 1871 contains copies of letters written during the months of Chase's recuperation from an attack of paralysis and relates primarily to his health and personal finances.
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Correspondents include Daniel Ammen, Flamen Ball, Dwight Bannister, James Gillespie Birney, George Carlisle, Henry Beebee Carrington, Edward I. Chase, Philander Chase, William F. Chase, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jay Cooke, George S. Denison, Rachel Denison, Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), James A. Garfield, Horace Greeley, Edward Stowe Hamlin, Joshua Hanna, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, George Hoadly, Janet Ralston Chase Hoyt, John Jay, Andrew Johnson, Reverdy Johnson, A. Sankey Lattay, Joshua Leavitt, Simeon Nash, George Opdyke, Richard Chappell Parsons, William S. Rosecrans, J.W. Schuckers, William Henry Seward, James R. Skinner, Ralston Skinner, Geritt Smith, Hamilton Smith, Katherine Chase Sprague, William Sprague, Charles Sumner, and James W. Taylor.
The collection is arranged in eleven series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm79015610
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 17,782
Diaries kept by Chase.
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Letters written between members of the Chase family, including the families of Chase's wives.
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Letters sent and received and copies of letters sent.
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Copies and letterpress copies of letters sent.
Arranged chronologically within bound volumes.
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Speeches, published letters, draft article, and a poem.
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Account books, bills and receipts, promissory notes, canceled checks, income tax returns, insurance policies, guardianship and trustee accounts, accounts of law partnerships, and papers relating to the Reform School of the District of Columbia.
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Abstracts of titles, bonds, deeds, leases, mortgages, powers of attorney, wills, notes on cases, memoranda, and other papers relating to Chase's law practice; also his notes on Supreme Court cases and Supreme Court case assignments.
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Autobiographical, biographical, and genealogical material, awards and certificates, a commonplace book, drawings, miscellaneous manuscripts, notes and memoranda, papers relating to Woodward College, printed matter, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
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Incomplete card index to the correspondence (original available in the Manuscript Division Reading Room)
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A letter, a holograph speech, and a typewritten transcript of the speech.
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An indenture.
Arranged according to the series and folder from which the item was removed after filming.