JAMES MONROE
                     A REGISTER OF ADDITIONS TO HIS PAPERS
                          IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                  Prepared by
                 Michael McElderry, 1979; David Mathisen, 1985

                            Revised and expanded by
                              Nan Thompson Ernst

                              Manuscript Division
                              Library of Congress

                             Washington, D.C. 1996



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                          ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

      Additions to the papers of James Monroe (1758-1831),
soldier, attorney, statesman, and president of the United States,
consist of material received through gift and purchase by the
Library of Congress during the years 1969-1991.


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    Many processed and nearly all unprocessed collections are    
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                    Linear feet of shelf space occupied:  3
                    Approximate number of items:        215



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                               BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


1758, April 28   Born, Westmoreland County, Va.

1774             Moved to King George County under the guardianship of his
                    uncle, Joseph Jones
                 Entered College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.

1775             Commissioned second lieutenant, Third Virginia Regiment 

1775-1779        Fought with George Washington and William Alexander in New
                    York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, rising to the rank of
                    lieutenant colonel

1779             Studied law with Thomas Jefferson in Williamsburg, Va. 

1782             Representative, King George County, Virginia House of
                    Delegates

1783-1786        Delegate from Virginia, Fourth Congress of the Confederation

1786             Married Elizabeth Kortright (died 1830)
                 Practiced law, Fredericksburg, Va.

1788             Delegate to the Virginia state convention to ratify the
                    Federal constitution

1790-1794        Senator from Virginia, First Congress of the United States

1794-1796        Minister Plenipotentiary to France

1799-1803        Governor of Virginia

1803             Minister Plenipotentiary to France; signed Louisiana
                    Purchase

1803-1807        Minister to England

1811             Governor of Virginia

1811-1817        Secretary of state

1813             Secretary of war, _ad interim_

1814             Joined Maryland militia at Bladensburg

1814-1815        Secretary of war and secretary of state, acting in dual
                    appointments

1817-1825        President of the United States

1830             Moved to New York, N.Y., to make his home with daughter
                    Maria and son-in-law Samuel Gouverneur

1831, July 4     Died, New York, N.Y.



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                            SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE


     Additions to the James Monroe Papers are organized as Series 4, Addenda. 
They include correspondence, photocopies and typescripts of correspondence,
property and financial records, and miscellaneous documents dated from 1778 to
1831 and arranged in subseries by the year the addition was processed.   

     The 1979-1985 addition is arranged in four parts.  Part A includes
original letters from Monroe to William Benton, James Bowdoin, Henry Dearborn,
Lord Thomas Erskine, Richard H. Henderson, David Humphreys, Thomas Law, John
Francis Mercer, Edmund Randolph, Spencer Roane, and others.  A letter from
William Wirt is the only letter written to Monroe in this folder.  Part B
contains photocopies of correspondence, a diary, and miscellaneous documents. 
The bulk of the photocopied correspondence consists of negative copies of
manuscripts owned by the United States Military Academy at West Point.  Part
D, Miscellany, includes index cards that, in conjunction with a State
Department pamphlet, form a calendar to the Monroe papers in the collection of
Mary Digges Lee Gouverneur.

     The 1996 addition includes a letter to Andrew Jackson and property and
financial notes arranged by type of material.

     The James Monroe Papers housed in the Library of Congress before 1960
were arranged in three series and microfilmed.  Those series are indexed and
described in _Index to the James Monroe Papers_ published by the Library of
Congress in 1963.  None of the papers in Series 4, Addenda has been
microfilmed or indexed.

     A microfilm edition of James Monroe Papers in the New York Public Library
is available for consultation in the Manuscript Division reading room.



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                                CONTAINER LIST



Container Nos.   Contents

SERIES 4.  ADDENDA, 1778-1831, n.d.

Box 1            1979-1985 additions
                    Part A, Originals
                       Correspondence and miscellany, 1783-1831, n.d.
                          (7 folders)  _See also Oversize_
                    Part B, Photocopies
                       Correspondence, 1796-1828, n.d. (2 folders)
                       Diary, Feb. 1825
                       Documents on loan to exhibit at the National Archives
                          (1958)
                       Miscellany, 1778
                       Monroe Doctrine (partial)
                    Part C, Typescripts
                       Correspondence, 1795-1830, n.d.
                       Miscellany

Box 2               Part D, Miscellany
                       _A Calendar of the Papers of James Monroe, Forming the
                          Collection in the Possession of Mrs. S. M.
                          Gouverneur_, n.d.
                       Card index to the Gouverneur collection
                          Part 1

Box 3                     Part 2

Box 4                  Holograph notes (undated) which list correspondence of
                          James Monroe, 1780-1814

Box 5            1996 addition
                    Correspondence, 1811, 1818-1829
                    Covenant, promissory note and other financial records,
                       and a genealogical note fragment, 1813-1814, 1819,
                       1825, n.d.

OVERSIZE, 1802

Box OV 1               Land deed, 18 Oct. 1802 (Container 1)


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