Caleb Cushing: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress (full view)

Title: Papers of Caleb Cushing
Span Dates: ca. 1785-1906
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1820-1878)
ID No.: MSS17509
Creator: Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879
Language: Collection material in English
Extent: 120,000 items; 420 containers plus 4 oversize; 190 linear feet; 9 microfilm reels
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: U.S cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, notes, notebooks, legal file, business papers, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, maps, photographs, and other papers reflecting Cushing's role in national and international affairs of the mid-nineteenth century.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Names:

Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891--Correspondence
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893--Correspondence
Campbell, James, 1812-1893--Correspondence
Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859--Correspondence
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Correspondence
Dobbin, James C. (James Cochran), 1814-1857--Correspondence
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865--Correspondence
Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893--Correspondence
Guthrie, James, 1792-1869--Correspondence
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872--Correspondence
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
McClelland, Robert, 1807-1880--Correspondence
McCulloch, Hugh, 1808-1895--Correspondence
Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857--Correspondence
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869--Correspondence
Pike, Albert, 1809-1891--Correspondence
Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878--Correspondence
Rose, John, Sir, 1820-1888--Correspondence
Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872--Correspondence
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866--Correspondence
Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864--Correspondence
Tyler, John, 1790-1862--Correspondence
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852--Correspondence
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892--Correspondence
Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office
United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of the Attorney General
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Geneva Arbitration Tribunal
United States and Mexican Claims Commission
Whig Party (U.S.)

Subjects:

The North American review
Canals--Panama
Diplomatic and consular service, American
Land speculation
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Political parties--United States
China--Foreign relations--United States
Colombia--Foreign relations--United States
Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States
Mexico--Foreign relations--United States
Massachusetts--Politics and government--1775-1865
Panama Canal (Panama)--History
Spain--Foreign relations--United States
United States--Foreign relations--China
United States--Foreign relations--Colombia
United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain
United States--Foreign relations--Mexico
United States--Foreign relations--Spain
United States--Foreign relations
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims
United States--Politics and government--19th century

Occupations:

Army officers
Cabinet officers
Diplomats
Lawyers
Representatives, U.S.--Massachusetts

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of Caleb Cushing, lawyer, author, United States representative from Massachusetts, envoy to China, Colombia, and Spain, brigadier general in the Mexican War, attorney general of the United States, and senior counsel for the United States at the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration, were given to the Library of Congress by his niece, Margaret W. Cushing, 1935-1942. Several small additions have been acquired through purchase, gift, and transfer, 1906-1995.

Processing History:

The papers of Caleb Cushing were initially arranged and described between 1961 and 1962. Additional material was incorporated into the collection in 1984 and in 1999, and the finding aid was revised in 2006. A description of the Caleb Cushing Papers appeared in the Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1936, p. 33. The provenance of Cushing's papers may be found in Claude M. Fuess, The Life of Caleb Cushing (1923): vol. 1, pp. vii-viii; vol. 2, pp. 399-400.

Copyright Status:

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

Microfilm:

A microfilm edition of correspondence, Dec. 1856-Dec. 1860, is available on eight reels and the treaty of Wang Hiya (Wanghsia), 1844, is available on one reel. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan.

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Caleb Cushing Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1800, Jan. 17	Born, Salisbury, Essex County, Mass.
1817	Graduated, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1820-1821	Tutored mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
1821	Admitted to bar and commenced practice of law, Newburyport, Mass. Edited local newspaper Began contributing to North American Review
1824	Elected representative to Massachusetts general court Married Caroline Elizabeth Wilde (died 1832)
1825	Elected Massachusetts state senator
1829-1830	Traveled to England, France, and Spain
1834-1842	U.S. representative from Massachusetts, Whig party
1843	Nominated three times as secretary of the treasury but rejected by the Senate
1843-1844	Commissioner to China; negotiated Treaty of Wang Hiya
1846	Traveled to Great Lakes region and along St. Croix River Reelected representative to Massachusetts general court
1847-1848	Brigadier general, Mexican War
1850	Reelected representative to Massachusetts general court
1851	Elected first mayor of Newburyport, Mass.
1852	Appointed associate justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
1853-1857	Attorney general of the United States
1857	Reelected representative to Massachusetts general court
1860	Named permanent president of the National Democratic Convention, Charleston, S.C.
1860	Sent as President James Buchanan's personal representative to Charleston, S.C., to delay passing of ordnance of secession
1865-1870	Counsel for the United States before the British and American Joint Commission to settle claims by the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound companies
1868	Special Minister to Colombia to negotiate a treaty regarding a canal across Isthmus of Panama Appointed agent and counsel by the Mexican government to present claims before the Mexican-American Claims Commission
1871	Appointed counsel for the United States, Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration
1873-1877	Minister to Spain
1879, Jan. 2	Died, Newburyport, Mass.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Caleb Cushing (1800-1879) span the period ca. 1785-1906 with the bulk of the material dating from 1820 to 1878. The collection includes diaries; journals; general and special correspondence; subject, legal, and financial files; a speech, article, and book file; and related newspaper clippings and printed matter. There is also an extensive file based on Cushing's land speculation and an additional file with papers that relate to his varied public employments, beginning with the China mission of 1843-1844 and ending with his ministry to Spain, 1873-1877.

The General Correspondence series, constituting approximately one-third of the collection, documents Cushing's life and touches on many of the national and international issues that arose during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The much less voluminous Special Correspondence series includes letters dealing with patronage questions during Cushing's congressional career (1835-1843) and during his service as President Franklin Pierce's attorney general (1853-1857). Social correspondence, autograph requests, bound correspondence, and a small amount of family correspondence complete this series.

Legal and business correspondence is included as part of the extensive Legal File. The Legal File is divided among cases in which Cushing was in some way personally involved and those in which he acted as attorney or consultant. Also in the Legal File, and separately arranged therein, are drafts of Cushing's opinions as attorney general.

Correspondence is also included in the Land Speculation and Related Business Ventures File illustrating Cushing's financial interest in lands located from Maine to Lower California.

The Speech, Article, and Book File has material as disparate as Cushing's fledgling attempts at poetry in 1816 and his philippic against Britain's Sir Alexander Cockburn in The Treaty of Washington (1873). The bulk of this file, however, is made up of drafts and printed copies of Cushing's speeches and addresses and drafts of articles for the North American Review and other publications.

A Subject File incorporates notes, memoranda, and extracts, largely in Cushing's hand and principally dealing with political topics of the day. Personal Miscellany contains biographical material, early notebooks, commissions, and photographs. Numerous lists and inventories reflect Cushing's reading habits and wide-ranging interests. Much of the Financial File is in small, dated bundles as kept by Cushing. The series of newspaper clippings and printed matter complete the collection.

From an early date Cushing was in correspondence with important figures of his day. Names such as George Bancroft, Rufus Choate, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, and Daniel Webster appear in the General Correspondence series as early as the 1820s, and in some instances frequently reappear for decades thereafter. A number of letters and notes from John Tyler and Franklin Pierce are found during their terms as president but are not confined to those years. Every member of Pierce's cabinet, including James Campbell, Jefferson Davis, James C. Dobbins, James Guthrie, Robert McClelland, and William L. Marcy, is represented in the 1853-1857 period. Included among the many other prominent correspondents are Benjamin F. Butler, Hamilton Fish, Francis Lieber, Hugh McCulloch, Albert Pike, Gideon Johnson Pillow, Sir John Rose, William Henry Seward, Roger Brooke Taney, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

The Addition includes two items of correspondence. The first item is a printed circular letter dated 1841 from Frederick Franks hand-addressed to Cushing requesting the establishment of national banks and a uniform fiscal policy for the United States. The second is a letter dated 1853 from Cushing to attorney Philip B. Key asking his views on William W. Williamson's conviction for forging bank notes.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is arranged in thirteen series:

Diaries, Journals, and Notes, 1827-1844
General Correspondence, 1815-1878, n.d.
Special Correspondence, 1817-1899, n.d.
Special Commissions File, 1843-1878, n.d.
Speech, Article, and Book File, 1816-1877, n.d.
Subject File
Legal File, ca. 1785-1886, n.d.
Land Speculation and Related Business Ventures File, ca. 1813-1906
Miscellany, ca. 1814-1879, n.d.
Financial File, 1805-1878, n.d.
Printed Matter, ca. 1820-1878
Addition, 1841-1853
Oversize, 1823-1874, n.d.

Container List

Box	Contents


BOX 1-2	Diaries, Journals, and Notes, 1827-1844
		About sixty small, unbound notebooks and two bound volumes.
		Arranged chronologically by type of material.

BOX 1		1827-1830, diary and notes on travel in Europe and U.S. See also Container 201, Notes, for Cushing's Reminiscences of Spain

BOX 2		1829-1830, diary

		ca. 1829, journal

		1835, Jan., journal

		1844, notes on Mexico

BOX 3-143	General Correspondence, 1815-1878, n.d.
		Letters sent and received.
		Arranged chronologically or alphabetically by name of correspondent. Undated correspondence includes files for Cushing and Franklin Pierce.
		Microfilm edition available of Containers 79-88, Dec. 1856-Dec. 1860. Shelf no. 19,366.

BOX 3		1815-1823
			(13 folders)

BOX 4		1824-1825
			(12 folders)

BOX 5		1826
			(12 folders)

		1827

			Jan.-May
				(4 folders)

BOX 6			June-Dec.
				(5 folders)

		1828
			(10 folders)

		1829

			Jan.-May
				(5 folders)

BOX 7			June-Dec.
				(4 folders)

		1830-1831
			(13 folders)

BOX 8		1832-1833
			(7 folders)

		1834

			Jan.-Feb.
				(3 folders)

BOX 9			Mar.-Oct.
				(12 folders)

BOX 10			Nov.-Dec.
				(4 folders)

		1835

			Jan.-Oct.
				(11 folders)

BOX 11			Nov.-Dec.
				(4 folders)

		1836

			Jan. 1-Mar. 4
				(5 folders)

BOX 12			Mar. 5-Sept. 30
				(12 folders)

BOX 13			Oct. 1-Dec. 31
				(10 folders)

		1837

			Jan. 1-22
				(3 folders)

BOX 14			Jan. 23-Aug. 31
				(13 folders)

BOX 15			Sept. 1-Dec. 23
				(12 folders)

BOX 16			Dec. 24-31

		1838

			Jan. 1-Mar. 20
				(12 folders)

BOX 17			Mar. 21-Aug. 19
				(14 folders)

BOX 18			Aug. 20-Dec. 31
				(10 folders)

BOX 19		1839

			Jan. 1-June 13
				(15 folders)

BOX 20			June 15-Dec. 31
				(12 folders)

BOX 21		1840

			Jan. 1-Apr. 19
				(13 folders)

BOX 22			Apr. 20-Aug. 31
				(13 folders)

BOX 23			Sept. 1-Dec. 10
				(11 folders)

BOX 24			Dec. 11-31
				(3 folders)

		1841

			Jan. 1-Feb. 21
				(7 folders)

BOX 25			Feb. 22-Apr. 27
				(10 folders)

BOX 26			Apr. 28-July 28
				(12 folders)

BOX 27			July 29-Dec. 21
				(13 folders)

BOX 28			Dec. 22-31
				(4 folders)

		1842

			Jan. 1-Feb. 12
				(9 folders)

BOX 29			Feb. 13-Apr. 2
				(11 folders)

BOX 30			Apr. 3-May 23
				(11 folders)

BOX 31			May 24-July 21
				(12 folders)

BOX 32			July 22-Aug. 23
				(11 folders)

BOX 33			Aug. 24-Oct. 8
				(12 folders)

BOX 34			Oct. 9-Nov. 26
				(11 folders)

BOX 35			Nov. 27-Dec. 27
				(11 folders)

BOX 36			Dec. 28-31
				(4 folders)

		1843

			Jan. 1-11
				(5 folders)

BOX 37			Jan. 12-Feb. 16
				(12 folders)

BOX 38			Feb. 17-Apr. 10
				(12 folders)

BOX 39			Apr. 11-June 5
				(9 folders)

BOX 40			June 6-July 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 41			Aug. 1-Dec. 6
				(8 folders)

BOX 42			Dec. 7-31

		1844

			Jan. 1-Mar. 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 43			Apr. 1-May 14
				(9 folders)

BOX 44			May 15-June 30
				(10 folders)

BOX 45			July 1-31
				(5 folders)

BOX 46			Aug. 1-26
				(7 folders)

BOX 47			Aug. 27-Dec. 31
				(6 folders)

BOX 48		1845

			Jan.-Feb.
				(8 folders)

BOX 49			Mar.-Apr.
				(6 folders)

BOX 50			May-Dec.
				(14 folders)

BOX 51		1846
			(14 folders)

		1847

			Jan. 1-31
				(4 folders)

BOX 52			Feb. 1-Apr. 30
				(13 folders)

BOX 53			May 1-Sept. 17
				(10 folders)

BOX 54			Sept. 18-Nov. 30
				(13 folders)

BOX 55			Dec. 1-31
				(3 folders)

		1848

			Jan. 1-June 30
				(7 folders)

BOX 56			July 1-Dec. 31
				(9 folders)

BOX 57		1849
			(10 folders)

BOX 58		1850
			(16 folders)

BOX 59		1851

			Jan. 1-June 30
				(11 folders)

BOX 60			July 1-Dec. 31
				(9 folders)

BOX 61		1852

			Jan. 1-Aug. 31
				(12 folders)

BOX 62			Sept. 1-Dec. 31
				(7 folders)

		1853

			Jan. 1-Feb. 27
				(4 folders)

BOX 63			Mar. 1-Apr. 30
				(9 folders)

BOX 64			May 1-July 31
				(11 folders)

BOX 65			Aug. 1-Oct. 12
				(9 folders)

BOX 66			Oct. 13-Nov. 30
				(8 folders)

BOX 67			Dec. 1-31
				(4 folders)

		1854

			Jan. 1-31
				(4 folders)

BOX 68			Feb. 1-Apr. 30
				(9 folders)

BOX 69			May 1-July 31
				(9 folders)

BOX 70			Aug. 1-Oct. 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 71			Nov. 1-Dec. 31
				(6 folders)

		1855

			Jan. 1-26
				(3 folders)

BOX 72			Jan. 27-Apr. 30
				(10 folders)

BOX 73			May 1-July 31
				(12 folders)

BOX 74			Aug. 1-Oct. 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 75			Nov. 1-Dec. 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 76		1856

			Jan. 1-Mar. 31
				(9 folders)

BOX 77			Apr.1 -July 31
				(11 folders)

BOX 78			Aug. 1-Nov. 30
				(11 folders)

BOX 79*			Dec. 1-31
				(6 folders)
				*Microfilm edition available of selected correspondence, Dec. 1856-Dec. 1860 (Containers 79-88). Shelf no. 19,366

		1857

			Jan. 1-Feb. 28
				(5 folders)

BOX 80			Mar. 1-July 31
				(10 folders)

BOX 81			Aug. 1-Dec. 31
				(12 folders)

BOX 82		1858

			Jan. 1-June 30
				(14 folders)

BOX 83			July 1-Dec. 31
				(11 folders)

BOX 84		1859

			Jan. 1-Aug. 31
				(15 folders)

BOX 85			Sept. 1-Dec. 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 86		1860

			Jan. 1-Apr. 30
				(9 folders)

BOX 87			May 1-Sept. 30
				(13 folders)

BOX 88			Oct. 1-Dec. 31
				(9 folders)

BOX 89		1861

			Jan. 1-Apr. 30
				(10 folders)

BOX 90			May 1-Dec. 31
				(14 folders)

BOX 91		1862

			Jan. 1-July 31
				(17 folders)

BOX 92			Aug. 1-Dec. 31
				(10 folders)

BOX 93		1863
			(15 folders)

BOX 94		1864
			(15 folders)

BOX 95		1865
			(16 folders)

BOX 96		1866

			Jan. 1-Aug. 31
				(10 folders)

BOX 97			Sept. 1-Dec. 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 98		1867
			(20 folders)

BOX 99		1868
			(18 folders)

BOX 100		1869

			Jan. 1-May 31
				(11 folders)

BOX 101			June 1-Oct. 15
				(9 folders)

BOX 102			Oct. 16-Dec. 31
				(10 folders)

BOX 103		1870

			Jan. 1-Mar. 31
				(12 folders)

BOX 104			Apr. 1-June 30
				(7 folders)

BOX 105			July 1-Dec. 31
				(11 folders)

BOX 106		1871

			Jan. 1-June 30
				(12 folders)

BOX 107			July 1-Dec. 31
				(13 folders)

BOX 108		1872

			Jan. 1-June 30
				(13 folders)

BOX 109			July 1-Dec. 31
				(12 folders)

BOX 110		1873

			Jan. 1-May 31
				(14 folders)

BOX 111			June 1-Oct. 31
				(13 folders)

BOX 112			Nov. 1-Dec. 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 113		1874

			Jan. 1-Mar. 31
				(10 folders)

BOX 114			Apr. 1-June 24
				(7 folders)

BOX 115			June 25-July 31
				(6 folders)

BOX 116			Aug. 1-31
				(7 folders)

BOX 117			Sept. 1-30
				(7 folders)

BOX 118			Oct. 1-31
				(7 folders)

BOX 119			Nov. 1-30
				(11 folders)

BOX 120			Dec. 1-31
				(7 folders)

BOX 121		1875

			Jan. 1-23
				(5 folders)

BOX 122			Jan. 24-Feb. 15
				(7 folders)

BOX 123			Feb. 16-Mar. 19
				(9 folders)

BOX 124			Mar. 20-Apr. 21
				(7 folders)

BOX 125			Apr. 22-June 10
				(7 folders)

BOX 126			June 11-July 31
				(7 folders)

BOX 127			Aug. 1-31
				(6 folders)

BOX 128			Sept. 1-21
				(5 folders)

BOX 129			Sept. 22-Oct. 7
				(5 folders)

BOX 130			Oct. 8-31
				(8 folders)

BOX 131			Nov. 1-26
				(8 folders)

BOX 132			Nov. 27-Dec. 31
				(11 folders)

BOX 133		1876

			Jan. 1-Feb. 8
				(9 folders)

BOX 134			Feb. 9-Apr. 9
				(10 folders)

BOX 135			Apr. 10-May 31
				(8 folders)

BOX 136			June 1-July 14
				(7 folders)

BOX 137			July 15-Nov. 18
				(13 folders)

BOX 138			Nov. 19-Dec. 31
				(6 folders)

BOX 139		1877

			Jan. 1-Feb. 28
				(9 folders)

BOX 140			Mar. 1-Apr. 30
				(9 folders)

BOX 141			May 1-Dec. 31
				(16 folders)

BOX 142		1878
			(16 folders)

BOX 143		Undated

			"A-X" miscellaneous
				(5 folders)

			Cushing drafts

			Pierce, Franklin, notes

			Unsigned or illegible

BOX 144-162	Special Correspondence, 1817-1899, n.d.
		Bound copies of selected letters to Cushing, bound correspondence of I. Lowell, and correspondence and related papers of J. N. Cushing, L. B. Cushing, S. Stevens, and others.
		Patronage letters are followed by files for invitations, announcements, and requests for autographs. Each file is arranged chronologically.
		Microfilm edition available of the treaty of Wang Hiya (Wanghsia), 1844. Shelf no. 21,859.

BOX 144		Miscellany

			1817-1829, transcripts of selected letters and other documents

			1823-1824, I. Lowell on life of John Lowell

			1843-1844, letters found in possession of Stewart and traced to Marsh

			1879-1899, J. N. Cushing and others

			1888-1889, L. B. Cushing, J. N. Cushing, and S. Stevens

BOX 145		Patronage

			1838-1840
				(16 folders)

			1841

				Jan.-Feb.

BOX 146				Mar.-Apr., and papers relating to Nathaniel Niles, Mar.-June
					(12 folders)

BOX 147				May-June
					(8 folders)

BOX 148				July-Dec.
					(15 folders)

BOX 149			1842

				Jan.-May
					(14 folders)

BOX 150				June-Oct.
					(12 folders)

BOX 151				Nov.-Dec.
					(13 folders)

			1843

				Jan.-Mar.
					(13 folders)

BOX 152			1851-1852
				(15 folders)

			1853

				Jan.-Mar.

BOX 153			1853

				Mar.-Apr.
					(11 folders)

BOX 154				Apr.-May
					(9 folders)

BOX 155				June-Sept.
					(11 folders)

BOX 156				Oct.-Dec.

			1854

				Jan.-Aug.
					(14 folders)

BOX 157				Sept.-Dec.

			1855-1859
				(38 folders)

			1860, Oct.-Nov., relating to James P. L. Westcott

BOX 158		Invitations, announcements

			1819-1843
				(17 folders)

BOX 159			1844-1869
				(26 folders)

BOX 160			1870-1878, n.d.
				(6 folders)

BOX 161			Undated, chiefly calling cards
				(6 folders)

BOX 162		Autograph requests

			1853-1878, n.d.
				(17 folders)

BOX 163-197	Special Commissions File, 1843-1878, n.d.
		Memoranda, drafts, extracts, official documents, and other material connected with Cushing's many public offices.
		Arranged chronologically by title of office or subject and thereunder by type of material or by subject. Correspondence removed unless noted in container list.
		Microfilm edition available of the treaty of Wang Hiya (Wanghsia), 1844.

BOX 163		1843-1845, China mission

			Discourse on China

			Financial
				(6 folders)

			Lists of cutlery, silverware, furniture

BOX 164			Notes, memoranda, extracts, lists
				(4 folders)

			Treaty of Wang Hiya, Chinese copy on silk See Oversize
				Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 21859

			Treaty of Wang Hiya, translated by Bridgeman and Parker

			Calling cards

			Watercolor and ink sketches by George R. West See Oversize

BOX 165			Newspaper clippings
				(3 folders)

			Printed matter
				(2 folders)

			Vocabularies, Chinese calling cards

			Manchu vocabularies and lessons

				Miscellany
					(1 folder)
BOX 166					(10 folders)

				A-B

BOX 167				C-Y
					(7 folders)

BOX 168		1846-1848, Mexican War, military records

			Rough draft orders and letterbook, 1847

			Brigade and special orders, 1847-1848

			General orders, printed, 1846-1848
				(3 folders)

			Guard orders, 1847, July-Aug.
				(2 folders)

BOX 169			Guard reports

				29 July 1847-14 Jan. 1848
					(15 folders)

BOX 170				15 Jan.-15 Feb. 1848
					(5 folders)

			Regimental return, Sept. 1847

			Clothing receipts and accounts, 1847

			Circulars, 1847

			Election of officers

			Pillow, Gideon J., defense

			Miscellany
				(3 folders)

BOX 171		1861-1865, Costa Rican Claims Commission

			Adolphus and Co.

			Lippe case

			Medina and Sons
				(1 folder)
BOX 172				(5 folders)

BOX 173			Newspaper clippings and printed matter

BOX 174		1865-1870, British and American Joint Commission, Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies' Claims

			Interrogations
				(5 folders)

			Reports and memorials
				(4 folders)

			Accounts and vouchers
				(7 folders)

BOX 175			Notes and miscellany

			Catholic missions, Roman Catholic Church, claims against Hudson's Bay Co.

			Maps See also Oversize

			Newspaper clippings
				(2 folders)

			Printed matter

BOX 176		1868-1870, ship canal negotiations with Colombia

			Dispatches and reference data
				(5 folders)

			Memoranda and notes

			Expense accounts

			Newspaper clippings
				(2 folders)

BOX 177		1868-1874, Mexican Claims Commission

			Rules and orders

			Claims, briefs

			Petitions, 1869-1872
				(16 folders)

BOX 178			Amount and character of claims, 1870
				(3 folders)

			Lists of cases, 1871
				(3 folders)

			Miscellany
				(4 folders)

BOX 179			Expense accounts, 1868-1874

			Newspaper clippings

			Printed matter

BOX 180		1871-1872, Geneva, Switzerland, arbitration

			Dispatches, background, 1866-1870
				(2 folders)

			Drafts and reference data, 1871-1872
				(6 folders)
BOX 181				(4 folders)

			Memoranda of proceedings, 1872
				(4 folders)

BOX 182			Protocols

				English
					(2 folders)

				French
					(2 folders)

BOX 183			Ship specifications and plans

			Catalog of books

			Facsimiles

			Invitations, calling cards
				(3 folders)

			Expense accounts
				(5 folders)

BOX 184			Printed matter

BOX 185			Printed matter

BOX 186			Printed matter

BOX 187		1871-1878, Spanish-American Claims Commission

			Official papers

			Casanova v. Spain

			Angarica v. Spain
				(2 folders)

			Mora v. Spain

BOX 188			Miscellaneous claims
				(4 folders)

			Circulars, agreements

			Newspaper clippings

BOX 189		1873-1877, Madrid, Spain, Legation

			Letterbooks

				Dispatches

					Nos. 14-246, 16 May 1874-4 Feb. 1875
						(3 vols.)

BOX 190					Nos. 247-521, 4 Feb.-15 Sept. 1875
						(3 vols.)

BOX 191					Nos. 522-809, 15 Sept. 1875-7 Feb. 1876
						(3 vols.)

BOX 192					Nos. 810-1195, 8 Feb. 1876-3 Mar. 1877
						(3 vols.)

BOX 193			Credentials

			Drafts of instructions

			Extradition treaty
				(3 folders)

			Perez, Garci

			Personnel of embassies

			Schooner Lottie

			"Virginius" affair
				(2 folders)

BOX 194		1873-1877, Madrid, Spain, legation

			Social file

				Invitations, notices, 1874-1877, n.d.
					(6 folders)

				Notes, memoranda, extracts
					(2 folders)

				Printed forms, models

BOX 195				Miscellany
					(4 folders)

BOX 196				Financial file

					Drafts, 1874-1877
						(3 folders)

					Accounts, bills, vouchers

						1873-1875
							(6 folders)

BOX 197						1875-1877, n.d.
							(11 folders)

					Printed matter

BOX 198-213	Speech, Article, and Book File, 1816-1877, n.d.
		Handwritten drafts, printed copies, and newspaper accounts of Cushing's speeches, articles, and books.
		Arranged chronologically by year; poetry separately grouped.

BOX 198		1816-1845, n.d., poetry
			(3 folders)

		1817, May 8, speech, on the conquest of nature for Herevitch(?) Society

		1818

			"Historical Outline of the Laws and Constitution of Massachusetts Previous to the Revolution," drafts

			"Scattered Thoughts From Old Diary"

		1819, journal of trip through White Mountains

		1820

			"The Critic Criticized"

			"Extracts From Essays on the Constitution of Massachusetts," Columbian Centinel

		1821-1824, notes for speeches at "Debating Club"

		1821

			Jan. [?], on Haiti

			July 4, speech, forty-fifth anniversary of American independence, Newburyport, Mass.

			July 13, speech, "Senior Class, Cambridge [Mass.]"

			July-Aug., "Letters on the Present State of Europe," Newburyport Herald

			"Botany of the United States"

BOX 199			Translation of Joseph Pothier's A Treatise on Maritime Contracts..., (1821), 1834 copyright

		1822, July 24, speech, twenty-second anniversary of the Washington Light Infantry Co., Newburyport, Mass.

		1823

			Aug.

				"The Massachusetts Judiciary," letters to the editor, Salem Gazette

				"The Review of Wheaton's Report," letters to the editor, [Salem Gazette?]

BOX 200		1824

			Apr., "Law Report," for "U.S.N.A. Rev."

			July, speech prepared for Washington Light Infantry Co., undelivered

			Nov., notes, speech on politics, Topsfield, Mass.

			"Memoirs of John Lowell," with notes and newspaper clippings, 1823

		1825

			Jan. 7, speech, Leonidas Fire Society

			June, notes, Northampton "Quo Warrants"

			"Remarks on the Projected Revision of the Laws of New York, First Published in the Atlantic Magazine for April 1825"

		1826

			Jan. 28, notes, speech on lotteries

			Feb. 22, notes and newspaper clippings, speech on lotteries

			June 24, speech, Festival of St. John, Masonic Lodges, Lynn, Mass.

			July 15, eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Newburyport, Mass.

			Sept., "History and Present State of the Town of Newburyport"

			"Claims of Citizens of the United States on Denmark"

			"Reminiscence of Whitfield"

			Review, Compagnoni's Storia dell'America,North American Review

BOX 201			"Summary of the Principles of Political Economy," Literary Gazette, with Cushing's letter to the editor, New York Evening Post

		1827

			Jan., "Merchants and Factors," speech, Massachusetts state senate

			Feb., "Libel," speech, Massachusetts state senate

			Mar., "Charlestown Bridge," speech, Massachusetts state senate

			"Review of McCulloch's Outlines of Political Economy"

			"The Right of Universalists to Testify in a Court of Justice Vindicated by a Member of the Bar [Cushing]"

			"Turkish Tales"

		1829

			Jan., notes, miscellaneous

			Sept. 10, review, Washington Irving's Conquest of Grenada, letter-to-the-editor in French, Messager des Chambres, Paris, France

			"Raymond ... a Tale of First and Second Love"

		1829-1830

			"Netherlands," [by Cushing?] Annual Register

			Notes, for Cushing's Reminiscences of Spain (1833) See also Container 1, Diary and notes for European trip, 1827-1830

		1830, Sept. 24 and Oct. 1, notes, speech on French Revolution, Newburyport, Mass.

		1832-1834, miscellaneous political notes and newspaper clippings

		1832

			Mar. 13, notes, speech on Indian question, Newburyport, Mass.; July 24, New Rowley, Mass.

			Apr. 4, speech on congressional candidacy, caucus, Newburyport, Mass.

			July 4, speech, fifty-sixth anniversary of American Independence, Newburyport, Mass.

			Dec., remarks, nullification meeting

BOX 202		1833

			Jan.

				Notes for debate on tariff resolution

				Notes on representative question

			Feb. 7, speech, annual meeting, Massachusetts Colonization Society, Boston, Mass.

			Mar. 18, "Report of the [Massachusetts House and Senate] Special Joint Committee on the Subject of the Resolutions of Georgia, Proposing a Convention of the People to Revise the Constitution of the United States"

			July 4, speech, anniversary of American Independence, delivered before the Massachusetts Colonization Society

			Sept. 30, "The Three Days" and related material on publication of Review, Historical & Political of the Causes, Progress & Sequel of the French Revolution of the Three Days

			Nov. 8, speech notes for caucus, Newburyport, Mass.

			July 4, remarks, New Rowley, Mass.

			Aug., speech, American Institute of Instruction, Boston, Mass.

			Sept. 6, eulogy to the Marquis de Lafayette

			Sept. 29, opinion on banking

			Sept., "A Reply to the Letter of J. Fenimore Cooper by One of His Countrymen"

			Oct.-Dec., "Lectures on the Civilization and Social States of Modern Christendom," Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Boston, Mass.
				(2 folders)

			Nov. [6?], "Man as the Agent of Civilization," lecture, Boston, Mass., and, in part, Lowell, Mass., May 1834

			"Speeches Delivered in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts on the Subject of the Currency and Public Deposits"

		1834-1835, notes, lectures, Boston, Mass.

		1834-1842, notes, congressional debates

BOX 203		1835

			Oct. 29, "Address to Constituents," Lowell, Mass.

			Oct., dinner remarks, Salem, Mass.

			Dec. 2, remarks

			Undated miscellaneous drafts

		1835-1836, list, published Cushing debates

		1836

			Jan. 25, speech on abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, U.S. House of Representatives

			Feb. 11, speech, navy appropriation bill, U.S. House of Representatives

			Mar. 10, speech, Ohio Bank paper circulation issue, U.S. House of Representatives

			Apr. 18, statement, vessel licensing in mackerel fishery, U.S. House of Representatives

			May 23, speech, distribution of proceeds from public lands, U.S. House of Representatives

			June 9-10, "Speeches ... on the Bills for the Admission of Arkansas Into the Union," U.S. House of Representatives

			June 10, letter to J. N. Reynolds of New York on appropriation for South Seas expedition

			Aug. 23, speech, Literary Societies of Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.

			Oct. 20, speech, American Institute, New York, N.Y.

			"The Anthracite Coal Trade of Pennsylvania as Published in the N.A. Review"

			Review, Edward Everett's Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

BOX 204		1837-1840, notes, congressional debates

		1837

			Jan. 6, letter to "Sidney" from "Poplicola"

			Feb. 1, speech, Indian Department appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives

			Feb. 6,

				Remarks on petition of three Lowell women concerning abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, U.S. House of Representatives

				Remarks on slavery, U.S. House of Representatives

			Feb. 7, speech on proposed censure of John Quincy Adams, U.S. House of Representatives

			Mar., "Biographical Sketch of Mohammed Ali, Pacha of Egypt, Syria, and Arabia," [Cushing?] Washington, D.C.

			July 14, "Letters to ... Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts, on the Question of the North Eastern Boundary ... First Published in the Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot"

			Aug. 22, speech, constituents' public meeting, Lowell, Mass.

			Sept. 25, speech on president's message to twenty-fifth Congress, U.S. House of Representatives

			Oct. 6, speech, treasury note bill, U.S. House of Representatives

			Dec. 12, "The Canada Question," letter to the editor from "Nov-Anglus," New York Daily Express

			Dec. 19, speech, executive powers, U.S. House of Representatives

			Undated, notes, northeast boundary question

		1837-1838, articles on political issues written by "Poplicola" for New York Commercial Advertiser

		1838

			Jan., miscellaneous resolutions, U.S. House of Representatives

			Mar. 6 and 9, remarks, neutrality bill, U.S. House of Representatives

			Mar. 31, statement, citizens' claims against France, U.S. House of Representatives

			Apr. 19, speech, continuation of the Cumberland Road, U.S. House of Representatives

			May 17 and 22, speech, Oregon Territory

			June 13, speech, bill granting preemption rights to settlers on public lands, U.S. House of Representatives

			Sept.

				Speech, social influence of Christianity, Brown University, Providence, R.I.

				Speech notes, Daniel Webster dinner

			Oct. 31, "Mr. Cushing's Letter to the Anti-Slavery Convention"

		1839

			Jan. 3, letter on slavery to the editor, The Lowell Courier, Lowell, Mass.

			Jan. 4, report, Oregon Territory, U.S. House of Representatives

			Feb. 16, supplemental report, Oregon Territory, U.S. House of Representatives

			[Feb. 25], speeches, Maine boundary question, U.S. House of Representatives

			Feb.-Mar., "The Delusions of Science," article, parts 1-2, The National Magazine and Republican Review

			Apr. 29, "To the Whig Electors of the County of Essex," Essex (Mass.) Gazette

			May-June, Aug., "Notes on the Netherlands," article, parts 1-3, The Knickerbocker See also Container 205, 1840, Feb., same title, part 4

			July 4, speech, material growth and territorial progress of the U.S., Springfield, Mass.

			Sept. 5, speech notes, two-hundredth anniversary of settlement in Rowley, Mass.

			Dec. 21, remarks, rules for U.S. House of Representatives

			Dec. 26, "Mr. Wheeler's Notes on Viva voce"

BOX 205		1840

			Feb. 10, speech, life and public service of William Henry Harrison

			Feb., "Notes on the Netherlands," article, part 4, The Knickerbocker See also Container 204, 1839, May-June and Aug., same title, parts 1-3

			Mar. 12 and 17, notes by Stansbury and Wheeler on treasury notes

			Mar.-Apr., "Letters ... Concerning the Resolution for Presenting a Medal and Thanks of Congress to General William Henry Harrison," The National Intelligencer

			[Apr.], Notes by Stansbury and Wheeler on Indians

			May 20-21, speech, subtreasury bill, U.S. House of Representatives

			Notes, speech on Bunker Hill, Newburyport, Mass.

		1841

			May 3, eulogy, William Henry Harrison, Newburyport, Mass.

			June 24-25, speech, Alexander McLeod case, U.S. House of Representatives

			Aug. 25, speech, post office bill, U.S. House of Representatives

			Sept. 27, "To My Constituents"

			Nov. 3, speech notes, Newburyport, Mass.

			Notes, speech by Alexander [?] Duncan

			Notes, "Spy in Washington," speech by Alexander McLeod

		1842

			Mar. 17, notes, speech on loan bill, U.S. House of Representatives

			Apr. 21, notes, debate in U.S. House of Representatives

			May 17, remarks, navy appropriations bills, U.S. House of Representatives

			May 26, remarks, army appropriation bill, U.S. House of Representatives

			June 22, remarks, tariff bill, U.S. House of Representatives

			June-Aug., remarks, messages of President John Tyler, U.S. House of Representatives

			July 21, remarks, reduction of the army and navy, U.S. House of Representatives

			Aug. 26, speech, remedial justice bill and treaty with Great Britain, U.S. House of Representatives

			Sept. 3, "Mr. Cushing in Reply to Mr. Adams," Bunker-Hill Aurora and Boston Mirror, with related Boston Daily Times article, Sept. 7

			Sept., article, by Charles W. March [?] on removal of Jonathan Roberts

			Oct. 7, speech, Newburyport, Mass.

			Oct., speech notes, Lowell, Mass.

		1843

			Feb., notes, exchequer speech

			Mar. 15, speech notes, New York, N.Y., with account in New York Herald, Mar. 16

		1844, review, in China repository

		1845

			Feb., "Independence of Texas," Madisonian

			Nov., article on the Oregon question, United States Magazine and Democratic Review 1845-1846 [?], notes on McCullough

		1848

			July 25, speech on Mexican-U.S. relations, Newburyport, Mass., published in Newburyport Advertiser, July 28

			Notes, speech on presidential canvas

		1850

			July 4, "An Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Town Hall in Newburyport," Newburyport, Mass.

			Aug. 2, speech, Female High School celebration, Newburyport, Mass.

			Sept., speech, Essex Agricultural Society, Salem, Mass.

			Oct. 2, "Address of the Democratic State Central Committee to the People of Massachusetts," reported by Cushing

			Nov. 30, speech on women's rights, Exeter, N.H. [?]

BOX 206		1851

			Feb. 4, report, modification of judicial system

			Apr. 1, committee report on repeal of legislation enforcing a sabbath, Massachusetts House of Representatives

			July, "Recent Legislation in Massachusetts," Law Reporter

			Committee report on free ballot law, Massachusetts House of Representatives

		1852 [?], opinion on towns

		1853, Oct. [?] 9, remarks, U.S. Supreme Court

		1854

			Mar. 8, report on modifications in conducting legal business of government

			May 30, opinion on enlistment of aliens

			Article on Franklin Pierce administration, author unidentified

		1855

			Apr. 28, report on right of belligerents to asylum in U.S. ports

			May 17, circular concerning phrase "while in the line of duty"

			June 6, remarks on "North and South"

			July 4, speech, Newburyport, Mass.

			Aug. 9, "Opinion of the Attorney General Concerning British Recruitment in the United States"

			Oct. 1, report on Texas colonization grants

			Dec. 1, opinion, court-martial of William Montgomery

			Notes on Crimean War, unidentified author

		1855-1856, remarks on British enlistment question

		1856, May 27, report on British enlistments

		1857

			Mar. 3, report on rate of ships of war

			Mar. 3, report on telegraphic communication for government

			Apr. 25, speech draft, Newburyport, Mass.

			June 18, "Report of Executive Committee of Democratic State Central Committee"

			Oct. 27, speeches, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass.; Newburyport, Mass, Oct. 31

			Nov. 18, "The Puritan Commonwealth," speech, Boston, Mass.; Salem, Mass., Nov. 23; Lowell, Mass., Nov. 24; Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 25; and New Bedford, Mass., n.d.

BOX 207		1858

			Jan. 18, speech, Smith v. Washington

			Mar. 17, speech, Irish Charitable Society anniversary dinner, Boston, Mass.

			Mar. 26, speech, Dred Scott decision, Massachusetts House of Representatives

			Mar. 26, remarks on personal liberty bill, Massachusetts House of Representatives

			Mar., notes, speech on military light dragoons

			July 5, speech, Tammany Society, Tammany Hall, New York, N.Y.

			Notes, lecture on "Isthmian thoughts"

		1859

			Apr. 4, speech, citizenship for Massachusetts Indians, Massachusetts House of Representatives

			Dec. 8, notes, speech on John Brown, union meeting, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass.

			"Speeches on the Amendment of the Constitution of Massachusetts, Imposing Disabilities on Naturalized Citizens of the United States," printed pamphlet

		1860

			Jan. 9, letter on John Brown and slavery sent to Arrangements Committee, Bangor, Maine, Daily Union

			Mar. 23, speech, Boston Light Dragoons, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.

			Apr. 23-May 3

				"Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention," and speeches, Charleston, S.C.

				"Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention," Charleston, S.C., and Baltimore, Md., June 18-23

			Sept. 12, speech, Massachusetts National Democratic Convention, Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.

BOX 208			Oct. 2, speech, Norombega Hall, Bangor, Maine

			Nov. 26, speech, Newburyport, Mass.

			Dec. 1, "Second" speech, Newburyport, Mass.

			Dec., "Third" speech, Newburyport, Mass.

		1862, Mar. 1, speech, Massachusetts House of Representatives (transcription)

		1863

			Feb. 17 [?], notes for article appearing in Boston Courier

			Mar. 14, speech on suppression of habeas corpus

			Mar. 21, notes on Abraham Lincoln

			July 4, speech

			Nov. 2, "Singular Single Speech" on Abraham Lincoln

			Oct. 17, speech on Roger Brooke Taney

		1864 [?], speech notes, Newburyport, Mass.

		1866, Apr. 11, opinion, Non-Intercourse Acts

		1868

			June 10, commencement address, Columbian Law College, Washington, D.C.

			Aug. 21, speech, reception honoring visiting Chinese embassy officials, St. James Hotel, Boston, Mass.

			Sept. 7, "The Right of the National Life Insurance Co. to Establish Agencies in the State of New York"

BOX 209		1869, Nov. 17, "The Alabama Claims"

		1870

			Jan. 6, "Spain and the United States"

			Feb. 13, "Spanish Monkeys and American Cats"

		1871, May 9, "The Treaty of Washington"

		1873

			June 2, "Causes of Differences Between Great Britain and the United States," Philadelphia Press

			June 12, "The London Times and Mr. Bancroft Davis," Philadelphia Press

			June, "London Times and Mr. Fish," Philadelphia Press

			July 1, "Chambrun on Executive Power in the United States," Philadelphia Press

			July 5, "The Affair of the Alabama From the Recent Documents Published by Order of the Government of the United States," Philadelphia Press

			July 23, "The New York Press," for Philadelphia Press [?]

			Aug. 4, "Bagehot's English Constitution," for Philadelphia Press [?]

			Sept. 17, opinion, validity of sewer certificates in the District of Columbia

			The Treaty of Washington

		1876, speech with notes, Salisbury Beach, Mass.

		1877, Sept. 5, speech, "Ould Newberry" celebration, Newburyport, Mass.

BOX 210		Undated

			Essays

				"The Contract of Partnership"

				"Day in the Deccan"

				"The Election Law," Mississippi

				"English and French Intervention in the Rio de la Plata"

				"Great Britain and the United States"

				"The History of Massachusetts"
					(2 folders)

				"Intervention of Nations"

				"Legal Education"

BOX 211				"Moral Reforms"

				"Simon Bolivar"

				"Sir Edward Coke"

				"Statute of Distribution"

				"Thomas Ewing"

			Notes

				Italian poets and poetry

				Webster's dictionary

			Other writings

				Emerigon, Balthazard-Marie, A Treatise of Insurance (1850), projected translation

BOX 212				Miscellaneous topics
					(5 folders)

				Speech, Young Men's Democratic Association

BOX 213				Untitled and related partial drafts

					Europe and Asia Minor

					France
						(2 folders)

					West Indies, Central and South America, Europe and Asia Minor
						(3 folders)

BOX 214-225	Subject File
		Notes, memoranda, and extracts relating to a variety of topics of interest to Cushing.
		Arranged alphabetically by topic.

BOX 214		Appointments

		Appropriations bills

		Arkansas

		Army and navy matters

		Assemblies and balls, Newburyport, Mass.

		Athenaeum, Newburyport, Mass.

		Banking
			(3 folders)

		Blockade

		Botany

BOX 215		British blunders and criticisms

		British conquests

		British enlistment question
			(2 folders)

		Canadian grievances
			(2 folders)

		Canadian questions
			(2 folders)

BOX 216		China

		Clay, John Randolph, claim

		Colonial trade question

		Congressional elections, 1830s

		Consuls

		Copyright law

		Cuba
			(2 folders)

		Dawes, Henry L.

		Denmark

			Claims against, 1826-1833
				(4 folders)

			Land dues

BOX 217		Diplomatic appropriations

		Exchequer Board of U.S.
			(3 folders)

		Excursions

		Ferry rights

		Fisheries

BOX 218		France

		French spoliations question, 1836-1840

		Harrison, William Henry, medal

		Haiti

		Health, medicine

		Impeachment

		Indians
			(2 folders)

		Intervention

BOX 219		Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 1862

		Marine hospitals

		Massachusetts general court
			(3 folders)

		Mexican War veterans

		Mexico
			(2 folders)

BOX 220		Netherlands

		Neutrality Act

		New Jersey election, 1838

		New York relief bill

		Newburyport, Mass., town affairs,
			(3 folders)

		Northeast boundary of the United States
			(2 folders)

BOX 221		Oregon question

		Party spirit

		Peace societies

		Petitions, memorials
			(2 folders)

		Pilots' law

		Politics
			(2 folders)

		Proper names

		Public lands


				(1 folder)

BOX 222
				(1 folder)

		Quarantine

		Reciprocity

		Resolutions

		Rifled Ordnance, Charles T. James, 1860-1863

		Right of arms

		Saltonstall genealogy

		Slavery

			General
				(3 folders)
BOX 223				(2 folders)

			Great Britain

			Petitions against

		Subtreasury

		Tariff matters
			(2 folders)
BOX 224			(1 folder)

		Texas
			(2 folders)

		Toasts, riddles

		Trial of seamen

		U.S.-Canada-Great Britain

		U.S. Congress, miscellany, 1834-1842
			(2 folders)
BOX 225			(2 folders)

		Webster, Daniel

		Wheelwright, William, eulogy

		Wines and spirits

BOX 226-330	Legal File, ca. 1785-1886, n.d.
		Opinions, briefs, legal documents, drafts, memoranda, notes, printed matter, and correspondence.

BOX 226-232		Personal Cases, 1830-1878, n.d.
			Cases in which Cushing was himself a party to the suit. Arranged chronologically and thereunder alphabetically by case title or subject.

BOX 226			1830-1831, J. M. Titcomb's assignment to Cushing

			1838-1839, Cushing v. Little

			1845-1852, Chippewa Mining Co.
				(10 folders)

BOX 227			1851-1853, George Robert, note

			1853-1857, Barnes and Mitchell, merchants

			1858-1863, Portland, Oregon v. Cushing

			1859-1871, Cushing v. Williams

			1859-1878, Cushing and the Myra Clark Gaines matter

				1859-1867
					(9 folders)

BOX 228				1867-1869
					(10 folders)

BOX 229				1869-1874
					(8 folders)

BOX 230				1874-1878, n.d.
					(6 folders)

BOX 231			1860-1865, Cushing v. Morton

			1864, Heard v. Cushing

			1865, Law partnership of Cushing, Stone, and Sandford

			1868-1869

				Cushing v. Bright

				Gunniston and Crosby

			1869-1873, Kansas Pacific Railway bonds
				(3 folders)

			1871-1872, Cushing v. Greene and Browne

			1871-1873

				Cushing v. Thomas Kelly

				Fontaine v. Cushing

			1872-1877, payment draft held by Daniel H. Chandler

BOX 232			1873-1877, A. A. Sargent

			1876-1877, Cushing v. Bright

			1877-1878, settlement, Cushing and W. W. Boyce

			Undated

				Miscellany
					(2 folders)

				Ward v. Cushing

BOX 233-246		Attorney General's Office, 1853-1857.
			Chiefly drafts of Cushing's opinions with official correspondence and memoranda, notes, and other material. Arranged chronologically by month and year.

BOX 233			Chronological file

				1853

					Mar.-Sept.
						(9 folders)

BOX 234					Oct.-Dec., n.d.
						(5 folders)

				1854

					Jan. -Feb.
						(3 folders)

BOX 235					Mar.-June
						(8 folders)

BOX 236					June-Sept.
						(8 folders)

BOX 237					Oct.-Dec., n.d.
						(4 folders)

				1855

					Jan.-Apr.
						(6 folders)

BOX 238					May-June
						(7 folders)

BOX 239					July-Aug.
						(6 folders)

BOX 240					Aug.
						(6 folders)

BOX 241					Sept.-Dec.
						(9 folders)

					Head notes of opinions, Nov. 1855-July 1856

BOX 242				1856

					Jan.-July
						(11 folders)

BOX 243					Aug.-Oct.
						(8 folders)

BOX 244					Nov.-Dec.
						(7 folders)

					Head notes of opinions, July 1856-Jan. 1857

BOX 245				1857, Jan.-Mar., n.d.
					(7 folders)

			Other material

				Correspondence and papers relating to Kansas lands ceded to Indians of mixed descent, 1853-1857

				Miscellany
					(1 folder)
BOX 246					(3 folders)

				Printed opinions

				Printed matter

BOX 247-330		Private Practice, ca. 1822-1886, n.d.
			Various types of litigation and business ventures in which Cushing acted as attorney or had an interest. Arranged chronologically and thereunder alphabetically by case title or subject. In some instances, grouped by type of case.

BOX 247			ca. 1785-1819
				(2 folders)

			1820-1822
				(5 folders)

			1820, Bradstreet v. Killam

			1822, Fowler v. Howard

BOX 248			1823-1824
				(11 folders)

BOX 249			1824-1825
				(8 folders)

			1825

				Brown v. Edwards

				Whitney v. Thompson

BOX 250			1826

				Bridge v. Story

				Gray v. Sweetser

				Miscellany
					(6 folders)

BOX 251			1827

				Brown, John, will

				Chicerking v. Fowler

				Johnson, Nicholas, estate

				Miscellany
					(7 folders)

			1828
				(4 folders)

BOX 252			1829-1830
				(5 folders)

			1830, Newburyport v. Willard

			1831

				George v. Cushing

				Miscellany
					(4 folders)

			1832

				Little v. Little

				Miscellany
					(2 folders)

				Rogers v. Herbert

BOX 253			1833

				Herrick v. Pierce

				Miscellany
					(7 folders)

				Moody v. Rowell

				Saint Domingo cases

			1834
				(5 folders)

			1834-1851, Aaron Leggett, claim against Mexican government
				(2 folders)

BOX 254			1835-1836
				(12 folders)

			1836, Haskell v. Haskell

BOX 255			1837

				Miscellany
					(4 folders)

				Salem India Rubber Co. v. Adams

			1838-1841
				(5 folders)

BOX 256			1842, John C. Spencer, notes

			1843

			1845, power of attorney

			1846

				Mining leases, south shore of Lake Superior

				Miscellany

			1847

			1847-1863, Eastman, Daniel, estate
				(3 folders)

			1849

				Miscellany

				Rantoul, Robert, deeds

			1850

			1850-1864, Gray, John B., estate
				(2 folders)

			1851
				(3 folders)

BOX 257			1852

				de Bodisco, Alexander, will

				Fall River Whaling Co. v. Borden

				Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

					Cases
						(2 folders, including 1 vol.)
BOX 258						(1 folder, including 1 vol.)

					Dockets

				Miscellany
					(4 folders)
BOX 259					(9 folders)
BOX 260					(10 folders)


BOX 261						(1 folder)

				Strong v. Strong

			1852-1854, Webster, Daniel, estate, includes genealogy

			1852-1855, Amherst, Mass., railroad case

			1853

				Lund v. Tyngsboro

				Miscellany
					(3 folders)

			1853-1854, Leidesdorff, W. A., estate

			1853-1863, Macedonian (ship) claims
				(5 folders)

BOX 262			1854

			1854-1863, Caldera (ship) claims against Chinese government
				(6 folders)

			1854-1867, Federal Street Church, Boston, Mass.
				(5 folders)

BOX 263			1855, Clark, Ferdinand

			1855-1857, aqueduct, Washington, D.C.
				(2 folders)

			1856

			1856-1859, Lotus (ship)

			1856-1860, Farley, Robert, claim

			1856-1871, Diggs, Judson, estate and work as Cushing's servant
				(4 folders)

BOX 264			1857
				(2 folders)

			1857-1858

				Lownsdale v. Parrish

				Stevens v. Gadding

			1857-1859, Snap Dragon (ship) claims
				(2 folders)

			1857-1861, James, Charles T.

			1857-1863, Guthrie v. Thompson

BOX 265			1857-1867, California land cases
				(4 folders)

			1857-1870

				Cheever, Benjamin H., suits relating to
					(6 folders)

				Claims against New Grenada, Colombia, Venezuela

BOX 266			1858

				Miscellany

				Newburyport Railroad Co., Newburyport, Mass.

				Portland, Oreg., land claim
					(6 folders)

				Wm. Cushing v. John Fraser (ship)

			1858-1859

				Adams v. Norris

				Parker v. Mudge

				Watrous, John Charles, judicial impeachment

			1858-1861, Perkins, Benjamin W., claim against Russia
				(2 folders)

BOX 267			1858-1864

				Merchants Bank of Newburyport v. Stevenson
					(3 folders)

				Suffolk Bank v. Lowell Bank White v. U.S.
					(10 folders)

BOX 268			1858-1868, City of Boston v. Richardson
				(8 folders)

BOX 269			1859

				Lidi, Alexander

				McCulloch v. United States

				Miscellany
					(3 folders)

				Northern Eagle (ship) agreement

			1859-1860

				Brinton v. Binney

				In re Williams

			1859-1861

				Adams v. Johnson
					(3 folders)

BOX 270				Chauncey v. Secretary of Treasury

			1859-1862, Goodyear v. Beverly Rubber Co.
				(4 folders)

			1859-1864, Fossat v. United States
				(6 folders)
BOX 271				(3 folders)

			1859-1865, Emerson v. Slater
				(5 folders)

			1859-1866, Pam Flush, claim against England
				(2 folders)

BOX 272			1859-1867, Chorpenning v. United States
				(3 folders)

			1859-1869

				Durant v. Essex Co.
					(4 folders)

				Hackley, Richard S., claim by heirs against Spain
					(3 folders)

				Sonora, Mexico, lands, contracts, and opinions
					(2 folders)

BOX 273			1859-1877

				James v. Atlantic DeLaine Co.
					(7 folders)
BOX 274					(7 folders)

BOX 275			1860

				Bates v. Illinois Central R.R.

				Bigelow, Erastus B., patent

				Dearborn, Edward, will

				Galveston, Tex., custom house contract

				Miscellany

				Morton v. Howe

				Stanton v. Harris

				Vermont and Canada R.R. v. Vermont Central R.R.
					(2 folders)

			1860-1861

				Bayley v. Morse
					(3 folders)

BOX 276				Wanderer (schooner)
					(3 folders)

			1860-1862

				Taylor v. Norton
					(3 folders)

				U.S. v. Neleigh
					(2 folders)

			1860-1864, "Count" Joannes matters
				(3 folders)

			1860-1865, Davenport, Iowa, debt

			1860-1873, La Valliere heirs, land claim, Arkansas

BOX 277			1861

				Miscellany

				U.S. Navy, contract with Norman Wiard

			1861-1862

				James v. Thurston, Gardner & Co.

				Hall v. Sullivan R.R.

				In re Rhode Island-Massachusetts boundary
					(4 folders)

BOX 278			1861-1864, Dole v. Johnson

			1861-1865, Lists of prize cases

			1861-1866, Suffolk Mfg. Co. v. Hayden
				(2 folders)

			1861-1868, Adams v. United States
				(2 folders)

BOX 279			1861-1871, Peirce, Thomas W.
				(16 folders)

BOX 280			1862

				Bank Commissioners v. Bank of Mutual Redemption
					(2 folders)

				Clements-Lane case and Mrs. C. A. Powers' letters

				Clothing tax case

				Miscellany

				Salisbury, Mass. [?], school district case

				Terry, Jacob, will

			1862-1863

				Gilpin, John, petition

				Judge of Probate v. Stone

				Oriente (schooner)

			1862-1864

				Ireland v. Newburyport, Mass.

				Mott, Winifred, estate, also concerns John Hopper, Garrett H. Striker, and Isaac C. Delaplaine

				Roberts v. United States

				Todd v. inhabitants of Rowley, Mass.

BOX 281			1862-1865

				Confederate operations in Trans-Mississippi Department
					(8 folders)

				Rogers, Nancy, pension claim

			1862-1866, Riley v. United States

			1862-1868, Gilmore v. Goodrich
				(2 folders)

			1862-1869, Hall, Jacob, claim

BOX 282			1862-1873, Providence Rubber Co.
				(14 folders)
BOX 283				(11 folders)

BOX 284			1863

				Churchill v. Saxonville Mills
					(2 folders)

				Miscellany

			1863-1865, Cora (schooner)

			1863-1868, New Mexico Mining Co.

BOX 285			1864

				Chesapeake and James L. Gerity (ships)

				Electric Spark (steamer)

				Lightner axle boxes patent

				Miscellany

				Pitney, Ora L.

				Price v. Dewey

				St. Albans, Vt., bank robbery

				Segur, Henry For additional material see Container 326, Remington gun contracts
					(4 folders)
BOX 286					(2 folders)

			1864-1865

				Green v. Eldredge
					(4 folders)

				Renton, Peter, estate

			1864-1866

				Liquor cases

				Lithgow, Arthur, claim against Spain

				Ochoa, Gaspar Sanchez, agent of the Republic of Mexico, dealings with Samuel Brannan and Richard Cheenery

BOX 287			1864-1868

				G. A. Le More & Co. (cotton)
					(3 folders)

				George, Paul R., will
					(7 folders)
BOX 288					(2 folders)

				Mauran v. Insurance Cos.

BOX 289			1864-1872, recovery of Confederate property
				(15 folders)
BOX 290				(15 folders)
BOX 291				(14 folders)
BOX 292				(10 folders)

BOX 293			1864-1872, recovery of Confederate property


					(10 folders)

BOX 294			1865

				Affidavits concerning Confederate vessels, funds, and cotton
					(2 folders)

				Arabella Riley v. United States

				Bay State Mining Co.

				Dubuque, Iowa, lead mines

				Horton, James, will

				Miscellany

				Meridian, Miss., returns of receipts and disbursements

				Ricardo, Spanish ship

				Schooners

					Elmira

					Herron

				U.S. v. Henderson
					(2 folders)

				Willets v. New London Northern R.R.
					(4 folders)

BOX 295			1865-1866

				McGuire v. Massachusetts
					(6 folders)

				Mills, Robert, cotton case

				Milwaukee and Minnesota R.R. v. Soutter
					(3 folders)

BOX 296				Niagara Falls, ship canal

				Presidential proclamations

				Statements, former Confederates

			1865-1867

				Green, C. K.

				McClane v. Boon

				Reports to U.S. secretary of state

				Tehuantepec Transit Co.
					(3 folders)
BOX 297					(7 folders)

				Eames, Charles (1812-1867), Treasury Dept. special counsel, legal memoranda
					(3 folders)

BOX 298			1865-1868

				Gilbert v. United States

				J. N. Cushing v. Wells, Fargo & Co.

				Liverpool and London Insurance Co.
					(5 folders)

				National Life Insurance Co.
					(3 folders)
BOX 299					(1 folder)

			1865-1869, Bank of New Orleans

			1865-1870

				Coquette (steamer)
					(2 folders)

				Cowdrey v. Galveston, Houston and Henderson R.R. Co.

				Meade v. United States
					(6 folders)

BOX 300			1865-1872, United States v. Arman
				(2 folders)

			1865-1873, Sangre de Cristo grant, Colo.

			1865-1874, Milwaukee and Minnesota Railroad
				(7 folders)
BOX 301				(4 folders)

			1865-1877, Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Co.
				(3 folders)

BOX 302			1866

				Andrews, Israel D., indentures

				Claims of U.S. for postage stamps

				Fuller, Benjamin, estate

				Hacienda de Encinillas

				Louisiana State Bank cotton

				Miscellany

				Prize cases
					(6 folders)

				Stanton v. Maddox

BOX 303				Steamer Grey Jacket and cargo v. United States
					(2 folders)

				Treat, Samuel, judicial opinion in cotton cases

			1866-1867, Sea lion case

			1866-1868

				The Harriet Lane, or Lavinia, and the Pelican (ships)
					(5 folders)

BOX 304				United States v. Boyd
					(4 folders)

			1866-1869

				Folsom, Gustavus Decatur, estate
					(2 folders)

				Supreme Court dockets

				Treasury Dept.
					(2 folders)

BOX 305			1866-1870, Jouan (Youan?), Augusto, claim against Mexico

			1866-1871, Richmond Mfg Co. v. Atlantic DeLaine Co.
				(2 folders)

			1866-1878, Cheever, Benjamin H., railroads and other business
				(5 folders)

BOX 306			1867

				Cotton claims, miscellaneous

				Dennistown v. Draper

				Fitch, George A., Treasury Dept. agent

				Manasses, Rebel ram

				Miscellany
					(2 folders)

				Pardons and amnesty

				South Carolina, tax cases

				Stevenson, John, cotton claims

			1867-1868

				Abel Stearns v. United States See also Oversize

				Hills, William, claim

BOX 307				De Haro v. United States See also Oversize

				Elgee cotton case
					(2 folders)

				Kirtland v. Watt

				Lockwood v. Providence banks
					(2 folders)

				Loring v. Marsh

BOX 308				Petitions before U.S. Court of Claims

				Printed matter, cotton claims and other confiscation matters

				Sayre v. Elmore

				United States v. State Bank of South Carolina

BOX 309			1867-1869

				Lane v. Gibbons
					(2 folders)

				State Department matters
					(2 folders)

				Veazie Bank v. Fenno

			1867-1870

				Draper, Simeon, trespass suits
					(2 folders)

				Mexico
					(5 folders)

BOX 310			1867-1871, confiscation cases
				(4 folders)

			1867-1870, Newcomb, John G., claims concerning Confederate property
				(2 folders)

			1867-1874, Woodruff and Bouchard v. United States
				(4 folders)

BOX 311			1868

				Cotton cases

				Davis, Amos, estate in Georgia
					(2 folders)

				Dyer, Alexander B. (1815-1874)

				French citizen, claims arising from bombardment of Greytown, Nicaragua, in 1854

				Holtzman, Adrian, application for patent

				Lane v. Gibbons

				Larkin v. United States

				Merchants National Bank, Boston, Mass.

				Miscellany

				Peniston, Fergus

				Slocomb, Cora

				Tornado, seizure

				Whitney, Benjamin D., contracts

				Yankton proprietors v. Todd

BOX 312			1868-1869

				Bark Grapeshot v. Wallerstein

				Masset & Co.
					(2 folders)

				Clark v. City of Providence

				Kimberly v. Butler
					(8 folders)
BOX 313					(5 folders)

				Perrin v. United States

				Steamboat cases

			1868-1870

				Caldera claims

				Fasnacht v. Westerfield and Jackson

BOX 314				Mallison v. United States

				Merryman v. Bourne

			1868-1871

				Garnett, Edgar M.

				Purdy v. United States

				Whitney, Benjamin D. [?] (attorney), legal cases transferred to Cushing

			1868-1874, Armendariz family, property, New Mexico
				(7 folders)

BOX 315			1868-1878, Cushing v. Laird
				(9 folders)
BOX 316				(8 folders)

BOX 317			1869

				Black, Charles, steamer cases

				Clark v. Peckham

				Miscellany
					(2 folders)

				Mobile Dock Co. v. United States
					(2 folders)

				Stephenson, Mary

				United States v. Stevenson

				Wiard v. United States

			1869-1870

				Geist, Simpson & Co.

				Gill v. United States

				In re Union Pacific Railroad
					(4 folders)
BOX 318					(1 folder)

				Waples, Rufus, and Edward W. Burbank

			1869-1871, McVeigh and Garnett v. United States
				(5 folders)

			1869-1872, Illinois v. United States

BOX 319			1869-1873

				First National Bank of Washington v. Texas
					(2 folders)

				Morgan v. Thornhill
					(6 folders)

			1869-1874

				Charles M. Conrad v. United States

				Napoleon III v. Ship Sapphire
					(5 folders)

			1869-1876, Welles, Henry S.

			1869-1877, South Hampton v. Fowler

BOX 320			1870

				Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

				Herndon v. Howard

				Miscellany

				New York election frauds

				Paraguay, American claimants against

				Smith, W. Scott, inquiry, Select Committee of U.S. House of Representatives

				U.S. Supreme Court, docket, Dec. term, 1870

				Whitney v. Ames

			1870-1871

				Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad

BOX 321				New York v. Northern R.R.
					(2 folders)

				Rancho Rio de Santa Clara, Santa Barbara County, Calif.

			1870-1878, Washington Market Co.
				(6 folders)

BOX 322			1871

				Abbott, Joseph C., claim to Senate seat

				Burwell, Armistead, claims

				Cochrane v. Mansfield

				Collins, Samuel, English property claimed by heirs

				District of Columbia indebtedness
					(2 folders)

				Lunt, Micajah, and J. Rodney Croskey (London)

				Miscellany

				Motor Machine Mfg. Co.
					(2 folders)

				New York Central Railroad appeal

				Swasey v. North Carolina R.R.

			1871-1873

				Boston, Mass., banks, taxes

				Caldwell, Alexander
					(2 folders)

BOX 323			1871-1878, Tichborne, Roger
				(2 folders)

			1871-1879, Angorica, Joaquim Garcia, claims

			1871-1886, Cushing, John, et al., war premium claims (Geneva awards)
				(9 folders)

BOX 324			1872, New York Central Railroad

			1872-1873, American-British commission claims
				(2 folders)

			1872-1874, Robertson v. Carson

			1873

				Credit Mobilier

				Kellogg, William P., Louisiana matters

				Miscellany

				New York Ocean National Bank

				Relation of government to District of Columbia

				Woodbury, Joseph P., planing machine patent

				Woolrich v. Pacific Mail Steamship Co.

			1873-1874

				Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad bonds
					(2 folders)

				Sorrel family, French claim against U.S.

BOX 325			1873-1875, Pomeroy, Samuel C.
				(2 folders)

			1873-1878, Texas and Pacific Railroad and Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad
				(6 folders)

BOX 326			1874

				Miscellany

				Remington gun contracts, Cuba, El Salvador, Spain

				Sonora (ship), claims by John N. Cushing, William Cushing, Halbert E. Paine, B. F. Grafton, Bradford A. Swap

			1874-1880
				(6 folders)

BOX 327			1875

				John N. Cushing v. United States

				Merrimac Silver Mining Co.

				Miscellany

			1876-1878, Spain, various claims against
				(3 folders)

			1877

				Blagborne, Matilda

				Townley, Richard [?], estate

			1877-1878

				Hopewell Granite Co., Maine
					(2 folders)

				Rondero v. Atocha

			1878

				Ellen Cushing v. Holbrook

				Miscellany

BOX 328			Unarranged, miscellaneous arguments

BOX 329			Undated

				Miscellany
					(8 folders)
BOX 330					(6 folders)

			Printed briefs and arguments

BOX 331-375	Land Speculation and Related Business Ventures File, ca. 1813-1906
		Correspondence, legal and business papers, financial data, memoranda, notes, maps, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
		Arranged alphabetically by state and thereunder in approximate chronological order or by type of material.

BOX 331		California See also Containers 335-337, Lower California Quicksilver Mining Co.

			1856-1866
				(12 folders)

BOX 332			1866-1879, n.d.
				(4 folders)

			Cushing v. Walker (Quicksilver Mining Co.), 1866-1867

		Colorado

			Printed matter, 1867-1868

			Mineral claims, 1868
				(2 folders)

			Helmick Silver Mining Co., 1870-1878

BOX 333		District of Columbia

			Fox, A. F., correspondence, 1875-1878

			Garnett, H. W., correspondence, 1874-1877
				(3 folders)

			Kelly, J. F., correspondence, 1872-1877

			Kelly, M., correspondence, 1857-1863

			Various lots, 1854-1875
				(5 folders)

			Collar lots, 1854-1859

			Eaton's land (Sq. 133), 1857-1868
				(2 folders)

BOX 334			Hall lots and Hall v. Cushing, 1857-1871
				(3 folders)

			Meridian Hill property, 1867-1868

			St. Andrew's Church (Sq. 244), 1858-1880
				(3 folders)

			Wharf rights, 1868-1876

			Lot diagrams, 1874

			Deeds, indentures

			Tax matters, 1854-1878
				(2 folders)

			Newspaper clippings

BOX 335		Illinois

			Rock Island, Daniel Webster, 1837-1862

			Green, Isaac, 1852-1870
				(2 folders)

		Lower California See also Containers 331-332, California Lower California Co.

			1865-1867
				(7 folders)

BOX 336			1868-1873
				(9 folders)

BOX 337			1878-1899, opinion and other matters

		Maine, Eagle Stream lands, 1835-1860

		Maryland, Maryland Free Stone Mining and Mfg. Co., 1868-1876

		Missouri, Ripley County, Mitchell tract, 1860-1884
			(2 folders)

BOX 338		Texas

			Peters Colony

				Taxes, deeds, 1837-1900
					(6 folders)

				Survey
					(2 vols.)

			Texan Emigration and Land Co., 1856-1885
				(3 folders)

			Texas lands and Kansas bonds, Benjamin H. Cheever correspondence, 1868-1878

BOX 339		Virginia

			Amherst County, Echols tract, 1870-1891
				(2 folders)

			Bedford County, 1874-1879
				(2 folders)

			Carroll-Vermilion lands, 1866-1906
				(6 folders)

			Chain Bridge, 1869-1871

BOX 340			Glebe Farm

				General, 1870-1878
					(6 folders)

				Accounts
					(4 folders)

BOX 341			Great Falls Co.

				Correspondence

					General, 1862-1878
						(10 folders)

					Davis, H. E., 1867-1878

					Davis, H. S., 1866-1878

BOX 342					Rogers, A. J., 1873-1878
						(7 folders)

				Legal file

					Neilson, Thomas H., claim, 1853-1876
						(2 folders)

					Papers and deeds, 1813-1873

BOX 343					Great Falls Co. v. United States

						Reports, documents, 1863
							(2 folders)

						Printed matter

				Financial file

					General
						(2 folders)
BOX 344						(3 folders)

					Memoranda and notes
						(2 folders)

					Printed matter

BOX 345			Polish Emigration Land Co., 1866-1878
				(6 folders)

			Swann land, Alexandria, 1861-1905
				(2 folders)

			Printed matter, newspaper clippings, and advertising
				(3 folders)

		West Virginia, immigration, 1864-1869

BOX 346		Wisconsin

			College and agricultural lands, 1868-1875
				(7 folders)

BOX 347			St. Croix file, 1846-1878

				Correspondence and related papers

					Adlersberg-Barron
						(17 folders)

BOX 348					Barron
						(13 folders)

BOX 349					Barstow-Cheever
						(18 folders)

BOX 350					Cheever-Edes
						(14 folders)

BOX 351					Edes-Gibbs
						(25 folders)

BOX 352					Gray-Lynde
						(21 folders)

BOX 353					McArthur-Reymert
						(26 folders)

BOX 354					Reymert-Young
						(20 folders)

BOX 355				Legal papers

					Contracts

					Deeds and related papers
						(2 folders)

					Land leases, 1849-1854

					Tax deeds
						(2 folders)

					Perkins, H. H.

					Bartlett, Sophia P., mortgage
						(2 folders)

					Chubb, C. St. John, stock
						(2 folders)

					Dexter, Harrington and Co.
						(4 folders)

					Folsom v. Hungerford

					Folsom judgment
						(2 folders)

BOX 356					Hungerford v. Cushing
						(14 folders)
BOX 357						(8 folders)
BOX 358						(10 folders)
BOX 359						(7 folders)

BOX 360					Freeland, Isaac, accounts and claims
						(2 folders)

					Jewell v. Cushing

					Judgments against St. Croix Co. held by Cushing
						(4 folders)

					Kelly, Rose, suit

					Knowlton, James H., contract
						(2 folders)

					McSpedon v. Cushing
						(4 folders)

BOX 361					Mears v. Cushing

					Perkins v. Cushing

					St. Croix corporation and settlement papers
						(3 folders)

					Samuel, Charles S., and Stephen A. Samuel, judgment
						(2 folders)

					Sigerson, John
						(6 folders)
BOX 362						(2 folders)

					Smith v. Cushing
						(7 folders)

					Taylor v. Hungerford

BOX 363				Miscellany

					Agents' quarterly reports, 1875-1878
						(15 folders)

BOX 364					Chisago Mining and Manufacturing Co.
						(14 folders)

					Clark, Spencer J., lots fraud

					Copper vein

BOX 365					Cushing, "Explanatory General Narrative"

					Cushing, property
						(2 folders)

					Deeds, patents
						(7 folders)

BOX 366					Drawings for lots

					Hobb, Thomas J., tract

					Hubbell, Levi

					Indentures

					Insurance policies
						(2 folders)

					Inventories and assets

					Knowlton, James H., and Joseph A. Sleeper, stock

					Land office, St. Croix

					Land patents
						(6 folders)

					Mail routes

					Maps and plans
						(2 folders)

					Memoranda, statements, and resolutions
						(2 folders)

BOX 367					Newspaper clippings
						(5 folders)

					Pairo, Charles W., lands
						(3 folders)

					Photographs

					Printed matter
						(3 folders)

BOX 368					Public lands

					Purinton, James, claim

					Railway matters

					Random lots

					St. Croix bonds and formation of Chisago Co.
						(3 folders)

					Stock certificates

						Miscellaneous

						St. Croix Manufacturing and Improvement Co.

					Yeo, William, property
						(3 folders)

BOX 369				Financial file

					Bills, receipts, and accounts
						(19 folders)
BOX 370						(25 folders)
BOX 371						(17 folders)

BOX 372					B. H. Cheever Co., notes and bills
						(20 folders)
BOX 373						(5 folders)

					St. Croix Manufacturing and Improvement Co.

						General
							(5 folders)

						Tax matters
							(9 folders)

BOX 374			Southeastern lands, John Haight correspondence, 1836-1856
				(5 folders)

			Great European-American Emigration Land Co., 1867-1871

				Correspondence and related papers

					Jan. 1867-Nov. 1869

BOX 375					Dec. 1869-Dec. 1871
						(5 folders)

				Newspaper clippings
					(2 folders)

				Printed matter

BOX 376-385	Miscellany, ca. 1814-1879, n.d.
		Biographical material, notebooks, daybooks, commissions, prints and photographs, literary enterprise, inventories and lists of books, publications, memoranda, notes, and printed extracts.

BOX 376-381		Personal, ca. 1814-1879
			Biographical material including a portion of C. M. Fuess's manuscript, notebooks, daybooks, commissions, prints and photographs, literary enterprise, inventories and lists of books, publications, memoranda, and notes. Arranged alphabetically by subject or type of material.

BOX 376			Account book

			Adams, John Quincy, autographs

			Appointment and award certificates, 1823-1874, n.d. See Oversize

			Biographical

				Partial corrected manuscript by C. M. Fuess

				Clippings and obituary notices
					(3 folders)

BOX 377			Books

				Bills

				Catalog of Chinese library

				Memoranda and lists
					(4 folders)

			Books and papers, inventory
				(2 folders)

BOX 378			Church affairs

			Commissions, citations, licenses, membership certificates See also Container 42, General Correspondence, and Oversize

			Congressional Globe, references to Cushing

			Daybooks, 1821-1839, 1849-1850
				(9 vols. in 2 folders)

			Docket notebook, Court of Common Pleas, 1822-1824

			Early law partnership

			Early legal notes, chiefly from William Blackstone, Blackstone's Commentaries

			Fee book

			Furniture and other effects

BOX 379			Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

				Miscellany

				Notebooks

					Algebra and geometry, 1814-1815

					Everett, Edward [?], "Lectures on the History and Antiquities of the Civil Law," 1820-1821

					General topics

					Languages

					Legal
						(2 folders)

			Inventories

			Itineraries, 1829-1830

BOX 380			Map, District of Columbia and Virginia

			Massachusetts legislature, 1825-1826

			Memoranda books, 1827-1837
				(7 vols.)

			Prints and photographs

			Personal

			Lists and bills

			Property in Newburyport, Mass.
				(3 folders)

BOX 381			Publications, literary enterprise, memoranda, and drafts
				(6 folders)

			Ships owned by Cushing and others, lists

			Miscellany

BOX 382-385		General, ca. 1816-1878, n.d.
			Principally memoranda, notes and extracts in Cushing's hand. Arranged chronologically. An undated memoranda file contains documents concerning Madrid, Spain, and Washington, D.C.

BOX 382			Chronological file, ca. 1816-1878
				(6 folders)

BOX 383			Memoranda, Madrid, Spain, and Washington, D.C., n.d.
				(8 folders)
BOX 384				(10 folders)
BOX 385				(10 folders)

BOX 386-392	Financial File, 1805-1878, n.d.
		Bills, receipts, accounts, bank books, vouchers, memoranda of expenses, and related material including some financial correspondence.
		Arranged in approximate chronological order with the remainder grouped by type of material.

BOX 386		Bills and receipts

			Miscellany

				1805-1836
					(6 folders)

BOX 387				1835-1857
					(8 folders)

BOX 388				1856-1872
					(8 folders)

BOX 389				1865-1878
					(10 folders)

BOX 390			Food and utilities

			Johnson, Nicholas, estate, 1826-1827

			Prescott, Oliver, estate, 1827-1829

			Undated

		Cancelled checks, 1867-1875
			(4 folders)

BOX 391		Account books
			(14 vols. in 2 folders)

		Accounts settled, L. T. Cowie, 1872-1874

		Accounts, statutes, and commissions, 1866-1868

		Small loans, 1823-1844
			(3 folders)

		Bank books and deposit slips, 1826-1835

BOX 392		Receipt book, 1822-1826

		Vouchers, miscellaneous business matters, 1827-1828

		Fee bills due, U.S. Supreme Court, 1857-1863

		Memoranda of expenses and charges, 1861-1865

		Charges against Treasury Department for services, 1867-1868

		Private accounts, notes held by Cushing, 1867-1874

		Insurance policies, 1867-1874

BOX 393-419	Printed Matter, ca. 1820-1878
		Newspaper clippings, pamphlets, magazines, and articles,some of which are annotated by Cushing and others that concern him.
		Arranged in two groups as Newspaper Clippings and as Pamphlets, Magazines, and Articles. Two containers of the newspaper clippings are marked "personal" by Cushing.

BOX 393-417		Newspaper clippings, ca. 1820-1878

BOX 418-419		Pamphlets, magazines, and articles

BOX 420	Addition, 1841-1853
		Two items of correspondence.

BOX 420		Correspondence, 1841-1853

BOX OV 1-OV 4	Oversize, 1823-1874, n.d.
		Treaty, watercolor and ink sketches, maps, legal documents, and certificates of appointment, commission, citation, and membership.
		Arranged according the series, container, and folder from which the documents were removed.
		Microfilm edition available of the treaty of Wang Hiya (Wanghsia), 1844. Shelf no. 21,859.

BOX OV 1		Special Commissions File

			1843-1845, China mission

				Treaty of Wang Hiya, Chinese copy on silk (Container 164)
					Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 21859

BOX OV 2				Watercolor and ink sketches by George R. West (Container 164)

BOX OV 3			1865-1870, British and American Joint Commission, Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies' Claims

				Maps (Container 175)

		Legal File

			Abel Stearns v. United States, exhibits (Container 306)

			De Haro v. United States, exhibits (Container 307)

BOX OV 4		Miscellany

			Personal

				Appointment and award certificates, 1823-1874, n.d. (Container 376)

				Commissions, citations, licenses, and membership certificates, 1823-1874, n.d. (Container 378)

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Caleb Cushing

A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

Prepared by John McDonough, Esther Coles, Woodrow Hamilton, and Bessie Waters Revised and expanded by Nan Ernst

Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

2006

Date

Event

Diaries, Journals, and Notes, 1827-1844

General Correspondence, 1815-1878, n.d.

Special Correspondence, 1817-1899, n.d.

Special Commissions File, 1843-1878, n.d.

Speech, Article, and Book File, 1816-1877, n.d.

Subject File

Legal File, ca. 1785-1886, n.d.

Land Speculation and Related Business Ventures File, ca. 1813-1906

Miscellany, ca. 1814-1879, n.d.

Financial File, 1805-1878, n.d.

Printed Matter, ca. 1820-1878

Addition, 1841-1853

Oversize, 1823-1874, n.d.

Prepared by John McDonough, Esther Coles, Woodrow Hamilton, and Bessie Waters
Revised and expanded by Nan Ernst