Language

English

Word Count

275,000 words, Guess

Page Count

1,100 pages

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Description

Correspondence, speeches, documents, legal and financial records, clippings, printed matter, and other papers. Includes drafts of reports to the U.S. secretary of state while Sickles was serving as U.S. minister to Spain (1869-1873) relating, in part, to the Cuban Insurrection (1868-1878) and the Virginius affair. Other topics include Sickles's service as U.S. representative in the 53rd Congress and as chairman (1886-1912) of the New York (State) Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. Correspondents include Sickles's son, George Stanton Sickles; his father, George Garrett Sickles; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; and Elihu Root.

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Topics

HistoryMonumentsCorrespondenceNew York (State)Foreign relationsVirginius (Steamer)United States. Congress 1893-1895). House

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