Albert Gallatin letters

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origination

{"value"=>"Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849", "type"=>"persname"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Albert Gallatin letters"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1793-1846", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1793/1846"}

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{"value"=>"MssCol 6406", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}

abstract

{"value"=>"Several letters written by Swiss-born American statesman and educator Albert Gallatin. Letters are both professional and social in nature, and include an 1808 letter to President Thomas Jefferson relating to the Embargo Act of 1807; a biographical sketch written at the request of autograph collector Lewis Cist, and two letters to Joseph Gales and William Winston Seaton, editors of the National Intelligencer relating to the publication of his essays on \"the Oregon Question.\""}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>Some material was originally received as part of the Duyckinck family papers, Ford collection, and Bancroft collection.</p>"}

date_inclusive_start

1793

date_inclusive_end

1846

keydate

1793

prefercite

{"value"=>"Albert Gallatin letters, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

extent_statement

.1 linear feet (1 folder)

date_start

1793

date_end

1846

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