JAMES A. GARFIELD
                    A REGISTER OF THE ADDENDA TO HIS PAPERS
                          IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                  Prepared by
                            Wilhelmina Curry, 1980

                            Revised and expanded by
                              Nan Thompson Ernst

                              Manuscript Division
                              Library of Congress

                            Washington, D.C.  1997



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                          ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION


      The Addenda to the papers of James Abram Garfield
(1831-1881), college teacher and president, attorney, army
officer, congressman and senator from Ohio, and president of the
United States, consist of previously undescribed parts of the
original collection and material received through gift and
purchase by the Library of Congress from 1970 to 1997.

      The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of James
Abram Garfield is governed by the Copyright Law of the United
States (Title 17, U.S.C.).


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                   Linear feet of shelf space occupied:   3
                   Approximate number of items:         500



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                               BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


1831, Nov. 19    Born, Orange, Ohio

1849             Entered Geauga Seminary, Chester, Ohio
                 Taught in district schools in Ohio

1851-1853        Attended Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, Hiram, Ohio,
                    teaching in district schools between terms

1854-1856        Attended Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., receiving
                    M.A. degree

1857-1861        President, Eclectic Institute of Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio;
                    taught Latin, Greek, mathematics, history, philosophy,
                    English literature, and rhetoric

1858             Married Lucretia Rudolph

1859             Member, Ohio state senate
                 Law student, office of attorney Albert Gallatin Riddle,
                    Cleveland, Ohio

1861             Admitted to the Ohio state bar
                 Commissioned lieutenant colonel, Forty-second Regiment, Ohio
                    Volunteer Infantry 

1862             Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers

1863             Appointed chief of staff under General William S. Rosecrans

1864-1880        Member, United States House of Representatives

1877             Member, Electoral Commission charged to decide disputed
                    presidential election of 1876

1880             President of the United States
                 Elected to the United States Senate from Ohio but declined
                    office upon election to the presidency

1881, July 2     Shot by Charles J. Guiteau, Washington, D.C.

1881, Sept. 19   Died, Elberon, N.J.



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                            SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE



      Additions to the papers of James A. Garfield are organized as Series 21.
The series includes correspondence, printed matter, and family papers which
span the years 1857-1889 and are arranged alphabetically by document type or
topic.  None of the material is included in the Library's microfilm edition of
the Garfield Papers.

      Correspondence includes originals and reproductions of letters dated
1857-1881.  Correspondents include William E. Chandler, John Curtis, William
C. Howells, and Albert M. Pratt.  The Miscellany contains printed matter
concerning Garfield's Civil War service, political career, presidential
election campaign, assassination, and memorial tributes.  The Family papers
include diaries, letters, and a wedding announcement of Garfield's daughter
Mary ("Mollie") Garfield Stanley-Brown.  The diary begins in 1881 and recounts
the death of her father. 



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                                CONTAINER LIST



Container Nos.   Contents

SERIES 21, ADDENDA, 1857-1889, n.d.

Box 1            General Correspondence
                    Originals, 1864-69, 1875-81
                    Reproductions, 1857-81, n.d.
                 Miscellany
                    Letterbook, 1885
                    Printed matter
                       About Garfield
                          "Garfield Campaign Souvenir," 1880
                          Hill, Martha A., "A Tribute to the Memory of
                             President Garfield," 1881
                          Hill, Samuel H., "Assassination of James A.
                             Garfield," 1883
                          Hinsdale, B. A.
                             "Garfield as a Political Teacher," 1886
                             "President James Abram Garfield," 1881
                          "In Memoriam," National University, Washington,
                             D.C., 1881  _See Oversize_
                          "James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur,
                             Republican Nominees for President and Vice
                             President of the United States," 1880  _See
                             Oversize_
                          McCarthy, Henry F., "James A. Garfield: In
                             Memoriam," 1881
                          Miscellaneous, 1881, n.d.
                          "Proceedings of the City Council and Citizens of
                             Charleston, South Carolina, Upon the Death of
                             President Garfield," 1881  _See Oversize_
                       By Garfield
                          Inaugural address, 1881
                          _North American Review_, posthumous articles
                             "My Campaign in East Kentucky," 1886
                             "My Experience as a Lawyer," 1887
                             "My Personal Finances," 1887
                             "My Public Life," 1887

Box 2            Family papers
                    Broadside, "Papers Appertaining to the Silas Deane Claim,
                       1775-77," n.d.  _See Oversize_
                    Garfield, Eliza Ballou (mother), eulogy on her death,
                       1888
                    Stanley-Brown, Mary ("Mollie") Garfield (daughter)
                       Diaries and account book, 1881-89 (3 folders)
                       Letters from 
                          Blaine, Harriet S., 1881
                          Garfield, James A. (father), 1870, 1877
                          Garfield, James R. (brother), ca. 1870
                       Wedding announcement, Joseph Stanley-Brown, 1888


OVERSIZE, 1880-1881, n.d.

Box OV 1         Miscellany
                    Printed matter
                       About Garfield
                          "In Memoriam," National University, Washington,
                             D.C., 1881 (Container 1)

Box OV 2                  "James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur,
                             Republican Nominees for President and Vice
                             President of the United States," 1880 
                             (Container 1)

Box OV 3                  "Proceedings of the City Council and Citizens of
                             Charleston, South Carolina, Upon the Death of
                             President Garfield," 1881  (Container 1)

Box OV 4         Family papers
                    Broadside, "Papers Appertaining to the Silas Deane Claim,
                       1775-77," n.d.  (Container 2)


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