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Sources consulted for the biography of:Nicholas Philip Trist (1800–1874)
Primary Sources
- Nicholas Philip Trist Papers, Collection 02104, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (with quotation in Virginia J. Randolph Trist and Nicholas P. Trist to Cornelia J. Randolph, December 31, 1860).
- Nicholas Philip Trist Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Nicholas Philip Trist Papers, 1791–1836, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
- Trist's correspondence in Trist, Burke, and Randolph Families (1832–1886) and in other collections at Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
- Trist correspondence and family history at Jefferson Quotes and Family Letters website of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (including birth date in daughter Martha J. Trist Burke's Notes on Trist Family History, ca. Dec. 31, 1901).
- Marriage reported in Washington, D.C. Daily National Intelligencer, September 21, 1824.
- Death Register, Alexandria City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
Trist's accounts of conflicts while U.S. Consul in Havana:
- Reply of N. P. Trist, Consul at Havana, to the Preamble and Resolutions Adopted by the Meeting of Ship Masters and Ship Owners at the City of New York…Being an extract from a document recently printed by order of the House of Representatives (Washington, D.C., 1840).
- Nicholas P. Trist, Reply of Nicholas P. Trist, Consul at Havana, to the Resolutions at a Meeting in Boston… (Washington, D.C., 1840).
- Nicholas P. Trist, Case of Captain Abraham Wendell, Jr., of the Brig Kremlin of New York, Arising from an Outrage Perpetrated by Him upon William Bell… (Washington, D.C., 1840).
Secondary Sources
- Albert Castel, "The Clerk Who Defied a President: Nicholas Trist's Treaty with Mexico," Virginia Cavalcade 34 (1985): 136–143.
- Robert W. Drexler, Guilty of Making Peace: A Biography of Nicholas P. Trist (1991).
- Wallace Ohrt, Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War (1997).
Obituaries
- Alexandria Gazette, February 11, 1874, February 12, 1874
- New York World, February 12, 1874
- Richmond Daily State Journal, February 12, 1874
- Washington, D.C. National Republican, February 12, 1874
- Richmond Enquirer, February 14, 1874
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