Salmon Portland Chase
Location of Papers

Brown University, John Hay Archives, Providence, Rhode Island.

Correspondence with Chase in the McLellan-Lincoln collection  and the Eli Thayer papers.

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Some correspondence with Chase in the James Franklin Aldrich papers and the David Davis papers collected by Willard Leroy King.

Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Salmon Portland Chase Papers, 1849-1873. 210 items. Finding Aid. Contains political correspondence. Correspondence with Chase also in the Benjamin Parham Aydelott papers, the Jacob Burnett papers, the Oran Follett papers, the Frank Johnston Jones papers, the Timothy Kirby papers, the Alexander Long papers and the Hiram Powers papers.

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Salmon P. Chase Papers, 1825-1873. ca. 50 items. Contains letters Chase wrote concerning religious life while a student at Dartmouth College; Ohio and national politics (1840-1868); the military government of Louisiana (1863-1864); and financial matters.

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware.

Correspondence with Chase in the P. S. du Pont office collection.

Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Massacheutts.

Correspondence with Chase in the Charles Sumner papers and 3 letters (1862) letters written to Chase in the Edward William Hooper papers.

Harvard University School of Business, Baker Library, Boston, Massacheutts.

Correspondence with Chase in the George Simmons Coe business papers.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Salmon P. Chase Papers, 1824-1881. 15,000 items. Contains journals, letterbooks, memoranda, speeches, legal opinions, official documents, correspondence, diaries, biographical notes by J.W. Schuckers, Chase's private secretary, and miscellaneous documents on political trends, economic situations, and social history of the U.S.

Also contains early Chase manuscripts including family correspondence and the Trowbridge letters.  Additional correspondence with Chase in the James Moore Swank papers and the Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer papers. 

Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Correspondence with Chase in the George Washington Julian papers.

Indiana University, Lily Library, Bloomington, Indiana.

Correspondence with Chase in the Hamilton Smith papers.

Library of Congress, Manuscript and Prints & Photographs Divisions, Washington, D.C.

Salmon Portland Chase Papers, 1755-1898. 14.75 linear feet. 114 volumes and 21 boxes. Finding Aid. The bulk of the papers dated 1824-1872 cover all aspects of Chase's public career.

Some correspondence with Chase in the following collections: the John Catron papers, Burton Norvell Harrison Family papers, Hannibal Hamlin papers, Andrew Johnson papers, Alexander Sankey Latty papers,  Abraham Lincoln papers, John McLean papers,  Justin Smith Morrill papers,  Jacob W. Schuckers (Chase's private secretary and biographer) papers, Alexander Robey Shepard papers, John Sherman papers, Edwin McMasters Stanton papers, Thaddeus Stevens papers, Lyman Trumbull papers, John Curtiss Underwood papers, Martin Van Buren papers, Benjamin Franklin Wade papers, Elihu Benjamin Washburne papers, Gideon Welles papers, Elizur Wright papers, and John Russell Young papers. the Carl Brent Swisler papers contains research materials relating to Roger B. Taney, 1836-1962, which contains information on Chase. Also available on 38 microfilm reels.

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland.

Correspondence with Chase in the William Wirt papers.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

Correspondence with Chase in the Lafayette Sabine Foster papers, the Theodore Parker papers and the William Schouler papers.

Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Correspondence with Chase in the Republican Party papers

Mississippi State Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.

Correspondence with Chase in the Robert James Walker papers.

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Correspondence with Chase in the William Greenleaf Elliott papers [AO446] and the George R. Harrington papers [AO653].

New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire.

Correspondence with Chase in the John Parker Hale papers.

New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, New Jersey.

Correspondence with Chase in the Peter Dumont Vroom papers, the Marcus Lawrence Ward papers and the William Nelson papers.

New York Public Library, New York, New York.

Chase correspondence in the James Alexander Hamilton papers, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough papers, and William Cullen Bryant papers.

New York State Library, Manuscripts and Special Collections, Albany, New York.

Some Chase papers in the Autographs of American Authors and Statesmen collection and Edwin Denison Morgan papers.

Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.

Correspondence with Chase in the Daniel Stevens Dickinson papers.

Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

Salmon Portland Chase Papers, 1825-1871 [MSS 304] . Finding Aid. Chiefly correspondence and papers from Chase's governorship of Ohio, including petitions for patronage, correspondence relating to the Peyton Polly slave case and other slavery issues, and 18 personal letters to Thomas Sparhawk. Some damaged letters from Chase's college years and terms as governor.

Some correspondence with Chase in the following collections: Lewis Davis Campbell papers, William Dennison papers, Joshua Reed Giddings papers, Friedrich Hassaurek papers, Thomas D. Jones papers, Edward Deering Mansfield papers, William L. McMillen papers, Pullan Family papers, Steele Family papers, Benjamin Tappan papers, Eli Todd Tappan Family papers, Joseph Vance papers, and Peter Weidner papers.

Ohio State University, University Archives, Columbus, Ohio.

Correspondence with Chase in the Norton Strange Townsend papers.

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Massacheutts.

Correspondence with Chase in the Mary Abigail Dodge papers, the John Greenleaf Whitter papers and the Young Men's Union (Salem, Mass.) papers.

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Correspondence with Chase in the Simon Cameron papers.

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City, New York.

Correspondence with Chase in the Gilder Lehrman Collection.

Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN).

Chase items have been cataloged in collections at the following research institutes: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, New York.; Cornell Univeristy Libraries, Ithaca, New York; Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Massacheutts.; Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; Sanford University Libraries, Stanford, California; Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Correspondence with Chase in the Rebecca Spring papers.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Correspondence with Chase in the William Henry Brisbane papers, the Moses M. Davis papers, the Alexander and John L. Mitchell papers, and the John Fox Potter papers.

Syracuse University, Department of Special Collections, Syracuse, New York.

Correspondence with Chase in the Charles Baldwin Sedgwick papers.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois State Historical Survey, Urbana, Illinois.

Correspondence with Chase in the Flagg Family papers.

University of Maine, Orono, Maine.

Correspondence with Chase in the Hannibal Hamlin/Hamlin family papers and the James Shepherd Pike papers.

University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Correspondence with Chase in the Thomas McIntyre Cooley papers and the Alpheus Felch papers.

University of Michigan, Transportation Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Correspondence with Chase in the Charles Ellet papers.

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.

Correspondence with Chase in the Orestes Augustus Brownson papers.

University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies, Stockton, California.

The George Arthur Bell autograph and manuscript collection contains letters and signatures of American statesmen, soldiers, authors and other notables collected by this 19th century clergyman and reorganized by Herbert Hoover in the 1930s.

University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library, Rochester, New York.

Salmon P. Chase. 76 items. Correspondence, dated 1845-1872, in various collections.

Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.

Correspondence with Chase in the Claiborne Family papers.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.

Correspondence with Chase in the Warner M. Bateman papers, Jesse Baldwin, the Emerson Family papers, the William Pitt Fessenden papers, the Abraham Lincoln, and the Albert G. Riddle papers. The Alfred Thomas Goodman papers contain a biographical sketch of Chase.

Yale University Libraries, Manuscripts and Archives, New Haven, Connecticut.

Correspondence with Chase in the William Smith Mason collection, the S. Griswold Flagg collection, the Southard Hay collection, Carrington Family Papers and Fowler Family Papers. Also have microfilm copies of William Wirt Papers from the Maryland Historical Socity and John McLean Papers from Library of Congress.