Particularly I'm looking at the Venezuela Crisis of 1895, and have been trying to find things like the text of Secretary Olney's "20 Inch Gun" note to Britain.
I've tried Google, gBooks, and gScholar (although I'm not very skilled at using those sites), and have only really been able to find Willy Scruggs' pamphlets that fired up the crisis. I am really hoping I can get my hands on more than just the one pamphlet.
I'm not in school so I don't have access to university libraries and librarians who might be able to help me here, and without them I'm just stumped. Any help you can give would be beyond great!
Archive.org tends to have a fair bit from this time period, but that usually will turn up in a google search, so there may be nothing there if you're doing judicious keyword searching and nothing is coming up. HathiTrust also has a lot of old stuff, and that doesn't turn up in a standard google search, so you might have a look there.
I'm a university librarian but I know nothing about the Venezuela Crisis, can you give me any citations for stuff you're looking for?