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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm80045062
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 David Ames Wells, economist, author, and public official, were given to the Library of Congress in 1938 by the Trustees of the City Library Association, Springfield, Massachusetts. An item purchased in 1914 was transfered to the collection in 1998.
The papers of David Ames Wells were revised in 1998 and the finding aid updated in 2010.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of David Ames Wells is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of David Ames Wells 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, excluding the addition, is available on nine 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.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, David Ames Wells Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of David Ames Wells (1828-1898) span the years 1795-1898, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1860-1886.
The correspondents represented in the collection include many of the leading politicians, economists, and journalists of the mid-nineteenth century. Some of the letters are social in nature, but many relate to such topics as economics, taxation, tariffs, and free trade.
Among the correspondents are Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915), Henry Adams, Edward Atkinson, Frederick A. P. Barnard, Thomas F. Bayard, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry W. Bellows, Samuel Bowles, William Cullen Bryant, Roscoe Conkling, Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882), William Maxwell Evarts, Cyrus W. Field, Stephen Johnson Field, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Henry George, Jay Gould, Horace Greeley, Edward Everett Hale, Joseph R. Hawley, John T. Hoffman, William Dean Howells, Francis Lieber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hugh McCulloch, Louis Mallet, Manton Marble, Charles Nordhoff, William Orton, Robert Dale Owen, John Meredith Read, Whitelaw Reid, Mahlon Sands, Carl Schurz, Samuel J. Tilden, Henry Villard, Andrew Dickson White, Horace White, and John Russell Young.
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm80045062
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 15,662. Reel numbers in parentheses represent original numbering of microfilm reels.