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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78041335
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 Alexander Hamilton Stephens, lawyer, journalist, governor of Georgia, member of both houses of Congress, and vice president of the Confederate States of America, were received by the Library of Congress through various gifts and purchases, 1900-1938.
The Stephens Papers were was processed in 1971, and the finding aid was revised in 2009. The collection was described in the
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Alexander Hamilton Stephens is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Alexander Hamilton Stephens 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 fifty-seven 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.
The papers of Alexander Hamilton Stephens are available on the Library of Congress Web site at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000028.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883) span the years 1784-1886, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1850-1883. The collection consists primarily of correspondence, supplemented by an autobiography and journal and miscellaneous memoranda, legal documents, and clippings. The papers are organized in General Correspondence, Letters from Servants, and Autobiography and Journal series.
The correspondence, mainly letters received, touches on virtually all aspects of Stephens’s private and public life, focusing on the divisive issues leading to the Civil War, the operation of the Confederate government, and postwar problems and issues in the South. Specific topics discussed include plantation management, slavery, Texas annexation, territorial expansion, political parties, states’ rights, the compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, secession, formation of the Confederate government, the conduct of the Civil War, Reconstruction in the South, and the disputed election of 1876. Broader subjects include transportation, the tariff, education, and social, economic, and literary matters.
Prominent correspondents include Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876), Joseph E. Brown, Fitzwilliam Byrdsall, Henry Cleveland, Howell Cobb, Martin Crawford, A. H. Garland, John. B. Gordon, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William H. Hidell, Henry R. Jackson, Herschel V. Johnson, Richard Malcolm Johnson, L. Q. C. Lamar, James Ryder Randall, J. Henley Smith, Robert Augustus Toombs, James Iredell Waddell, and Ambrose R. Wright.
This collection is arranged in three series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78041335
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 15,135
Letters received and occasional letters sent supplemented by memoranda, legal documents, and clippings.
Arranged chronologically with undated material arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
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Bound volume of letters.
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Bound volume of an autobiographical writing and journal.
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