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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James D. Richardson Papers, #3700, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1964.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Editors--United States--History--19th century.
• History--Sources--Publishing--United States.
• Legislators--United States--Correspondence--History--19th century.
• Messages and papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897.
• Presidents--Archives--Publishing--United States.
• Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914.

James Daniel Richardson was a Democratic United States Representative from Tennessee, 1885-1905. Richardson practiced law at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and served in the state legislature. He was prominent in the Democratic Party organization and in Scottish Rite Masonry. About 1893 he began to prepare the compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897.

The collection includes letters received by James D. Richardson from members of Congress, newspaper editors, and other prominent individuals, answering his request, after publication of the first six volumes, for written opinions on the value of the work, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 (1917), which he edited.