Esarey mss. III, 1889-1918
This collection is open for research.
Logan Esarey, a native of rural Indiana, had completed his bachelor's and master's
degrees and begun his doctoral work at Indiana University when he was appointed
Research Fellow in the Department of History in September 1911. With that
appointment he became the driving force in the newly formed Indiana Historical
Survey, which was to gather as many as possible of the resources for writing Indiana
history to support the 1916 centennial of statehood. One of the projects, never
completed, was the biography of Joseph E. McDonald to which these papers relate.
The collection is arranged in the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings;
III. Miscellaneous.
The drafts in the collection appear to have been built around transcriptions of
speeches taken from printed sources and from clippings in McDonald's own scrapbooks,
with limited background context added. Four letters to and one from Esarey document
his attempt to locate all of McDonald's speeches and papers in 1917-1918. Two
letters from McDonald to William Allen Woods and one from McDonald to "Mr. Editor,"
all written in 1889, concern a case of alleged voter fraud and disagreement between
McDonald and Woods over the appropriate judicial charge to the jury.
See Esarey mss., also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
Series:
Writings 1850-1891
Folder 2
Notes on "McDonald's Scrap Books." A.D., 3 pp.
Folder 3
Drafts of chapters based on Joseph E. McDonald's speeches:
"Bounty Lands," T.D., 9 pp.; A.D., 5 pp. June 06, 1850
Folder 4
"Contested Election in Iowa," T.D., 15 pp.; A.D., 7 pp. June 26, 1850
Folder 5
"Land Officers," T.D., 7 pp.; A.D., 2 pp. July 22, 1850
Folder 6
"Cheap Postage," T.D., 6 pp.; A.D., 3 pp. January 14, 1851
Folder 7
"The Board of Accounts Bill," T.D., 7 pp.; A.D., 9 pp. February 08, 1851
Folder 8
"River and Harbor Bill," T.D., 14 pp. February 17, 1851
Folder 9
"Fortification Bill," T.D., 3 pp.; A.D., 3 pp. February 22, 1851
Folder 10
"The Mileage Question," T.D., 5 pp.; A.D., 4 pp. February 24, 1851
Folder 11
""The Campaign of 1858," A.D., 6 pp. December 2, 1858
Folder 12
"The Position of the Democratic Party in 1860," T.D., 17 pp.;
A.D., 9 pp. July 1,
1860
Folder 13
"Speech before the Democratic Union Association," T.D., 14 pp.;
A.D., 1 p. November 25,
1862
Folder 14
"Mcdonald's Speech on His Nomination to Governor," T.D., 7 pp.;
A.D., 1 p. July 13,
1864
Folder 15
"State Affairs and State Policy," T.D., 28 pp.; A.D., 1 p.
July 20, 1864
Folder 16
"Debate with Governor Morton at LaPorte, Indiana," T.D., 32 pp.;
A.D., 5 pp. August 10,
1864
Folder 17
"The Political Issues of the Campaign of 1866," T.D., 22 pp.;
A.D., 1 p. June 22,
1866
Folder 18
"Speech at the Monroe County Democratic Convention," T.D., 12
pp.; A.D., 3 pp. July 25,
1866
Folder 19
Handwritten context notes for various speeches by McDonald,
1861-1870, preparatory to transcription, per penciled note dated April
1, 1918. A.Ds.,11 p.July 25,
1866
"Speech at a Meeting of the Indiana Democracy in 1861"
"Debate with Governor Morton at South Bend, Indiana" August 11, 1864
"Debate with Governor Morton at Goshen, Indiana" August 12, 1864
"Debate with Governor Morton at Brownstown, Indiana" August 16, 1864
"Debate with Governor Morton at Bedford, Indiana" August 17, 1864
"Speech at Washington, Indiana" August 18, 1864
"Debate with Governor Morton at Liberty, Indiana" September 10, 1864
"Speech at St. Paul, Indiana" September 20, 1864
"Speech on the Death of Lincoln" August 15, 1865
"Speech at a Democratic Rally" October 5, 1867
"Speech at Democratic Rally" October 15, 1870
Folder 20
"On the Admission of P. B. S. Pinchback to the U.S. Senate,"
A.D., 6p. March 16, 1875
Folder 21
"Wabash and Erie Canal," A.D., 4 p. February 21, 1876
Folder 22
"Trial of William W. Belknap," T.D., 10 pp.; A.D., 3 p May 15, 1876
Folder 23
"Swamp and Overflowed Lands in ...," A.D., 3 p. June 6, 1876
Folder 24
"Governor Chamberlin's Letter to President Grant on the Hamburgh
Massacre" T.D., 8p.; "President Grant's Reply" July 26, 1876. T.D., 3p.
July 22, 1876
Folder 25
"The Hamburgh Riots," A.D., 12 pp August 1, 1876
Folder 26
"Argument before the Electoral Commission on the Louisiana Case,"
A.D., 11 p. February 13, 1877
Folder 27
Electoral Vote of Pennsylvania in 1876," A.D., 4 p. February 24, 1877
Folder 28
"Eulogy on Michael C. Kerr," A.D., 1 p. February 27, 1877
Folder 29
"On the Findings of the Electoral Commission," A.D., 2 p.
February 28, 1877
Folder 30
"On the Admission of William P. Kellogg of Louisiana to a Seat in
the U.S. Senate," T.D., 7 pp.; A.D., 2 p. and continuation: "The
Saulsbury amendment...," T.D., 17 pp.; A.D., 3 p. November 29, 1877
Folder 31
"On the Death of O. P. Morton," T.D., 9 pp.; A.D., 2 pp.
January 17, 1878
Folder 32
"The Great Conspiracy Case", T.D., 10 pp.; A.D., 1 p. June 22, 1891
