- unitid
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{"value"=>"1187", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1187", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1822/1851", "value"=>"1822-1851"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1822
- date_inclusive_end
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1851
- keydate
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1822
- date_start
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1822
- date_end
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1851
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Samuel L. Gouverneur correspondence"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".2 linear foot (1 box)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur (1799-1867), American politician and capitalist, was postmaster of New York City from 1828 to 1836. His wife, Maria Hester Monroe, was the daughter of U.S. President James Monroe. After 1850, Gouverneur moved to Maryland. Collection consists of letters to Gouverneur from John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, William Henry Harrison, Winfield Scott, and others; drafts or copies of Gouverneur's letters; and his correspondence, 1835, as postmaster of New York, with the Antislavery Society, the postmaster of Charleston, S.C., and the authorities at Washington, D.C., concerning disturbances caused by the transmission of abolitionist matter through the mails."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Samuel L. Gouverneur correspondence, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Gouverneur, Samuel L. (Samuel Lawrence), 1799-1867", "type"=>"persname"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Entire collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
- extent_statement
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.2 linear feet (1 box)