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Historical manuscripts

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  • "Historical documents collected by Roosevelt and related to political, social, mercantile, and military life in the United States. Only three items are from the 17th century, two legal documents and a receipt. Other documents include business correspondence, personal letters, bills, receipts, bonds, contracts, notes, wills and testaments, deeds and land grants, apprenticeship papers, licenses, military papers and certificates, customs declarations, and public office appointments. Subjects include the Mayor's Court of New York City, ships and shipping, sale of slaves, Revolutionary War service, privateering, smuggling, defense of the United States, and military conditions in the field during the Civil War. Persons represented include John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Major General Charles Lee, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Governor Horatio Sharpe of Maryland, Ben Stoddert, George Washington, George Bancroft, Aaron Burr, John C. Calhoun, Simon Cameron, Lewis Cass, Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Lord Cornwallis, William H. Crawford, Oliver Cromwell, Jefferson Davis, James Guthrie, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel Houston, General Robert E. Lee, James Russell Lowell, James K. Paulding, William Pitt, Dr. Benjamin Rush, William H. Seward, General William T. Sherman, Daniel Webster, and Emile Zola."

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  • "Naval history"
  • "Military history"
  • "History"

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  • "Historical manuscripts"

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