James Wilkinson letters and documents

Description data TOP

unitid

{"value"=>"4680", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"b21276478", "type"=>"local_b"}

{"value"=>"MssCol 4680", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1776-1823", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1776/1823"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"James Wilkinson letters and documents"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".1 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 folder", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}

repository

{"id"=>"MSS", "value"=>"Manuscripts and Archives Division"}

abstract

{"value"=>"James Wilkinson (1757-1825) of Maryland was a United States Army officer and first governor of the Louisiana Territory. Wilkinson was implicated in the Burr Conspiracy and resigned from the Army in 1815. He was later appointed U.S. envoy to Mexico and died there in 1825. Suspicions that he had long been an agent of the Spanish government were confirmed after his death. The collection consists chiefly of letters written by Wilkinson to military personnel and politicians, especially at Fort Washington during the Northwest Indian War and later 1790s. Recipients include John Armstrong, 1792; Bartholomew Shaumburg, 1796, David Holmes, 1812, and James Monroe, 1814. Wilkinson’s letter of 1823 April 17, Mexico, to an unidentified correspondent (probably to Thomas Aspinwall, U.S. Consul in London), describes the election of Agustín de Iturbide as emperor of Mexico. Also included is Wilkinson's 1793 bill to the government for expenses of his servants, and an order of payment to James Wilkinson by Joseph Reed, 1781."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>James Wilkinson letters and documents, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Donated by John Stewart Kennedy, 1896 as part of the Emmet Collection; by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford Collection; and various purchases, 1940-1941</p>"}

processinfo

{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Susan P. Waide</span>, <span class=\"date\">2017</span></p>"}

altformavail

{"value"=>"<p>Available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-455</p>"}

bibliography

{"value"=>"<p> Letter about Iturbide printed in \"James Wilkinson on the Mexican Revolution, 1823.\" Bulletin of The New York Public Library 3, no. 9 (September 1899): 361-364.</p>"}

date_start

1776

keydate

1776

date_end

1823

date_inclusive_start

1776

date_inclusive_end

1823

extent_statement

.1 linear feet (1 folder)

Update Collection TOP

Update from EAD XML File

Child components TOP

No child components.