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Summers, Lewis Preston, 1868-1943. Papers of Lewis Preston Summers [manuscript] ca. 1900-1972.

Title: Papers of Lewis Preston Summers [manuscript] ca. 1900-1972.

Correspondence in the collection deals chiefly with genealogy. There are some personal letters and a few political ones. Copies of 18th and 19th century family legal documents are included. Pamphlets and clippings cover S.W. Virginia history, family activities and some political events, a journal, 1921, of the European tour of Gay White Summers Jessup is included, as are a few bills and receipts, miscellaneous invitations, postcards and programs, and family photographs. Among the correspondents are Joseph L. Crupper, Carter Glass, Ambrose L. Henkel, Campbell Bascom Slemp, and Claude Augustus Swanson.

ArchivalResource: 1,000 items.

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Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun), 1867-1943. Papers, 1860-1985

Title: Daniel C. Roper papers 1860-1985

The Daniel C. Roper Papers, 1860-1958 (bulk 1933-1938), consist chiefly of professional and political correspondence, including telegrams and memoranda, but also include speeches, financial papers, clippings, invitations, legal papers, printed material, and pictures. The collection primarily documents Roper's term as Secretary of Commerce during the first administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In general the papers provide an inside look at this Democratic administration during the early depression years, as well as the relationships among business, government, and politics. In particular, Roper had close ties to people in the business community and was sympathetic to their concerns. In addition, the collection tracks the course of the New Deal in the Department of Commerce and the career of Roper not only as a United States government official in Roosevelt's cabinet but also as a progressive Democrat.

ArchivalResource: 56 Linear Feet, circa 33,900 items

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Slemp, C. Bascom (Campbell Bascom), 1870-1943. Letters to Robert Henderson Angell [manuscript], 1930-1933.

Title: Letters to Robert Henderson Angell [manuscript], 1930-1933.

Slemp writes to Angell (a Roanoke legislator) about a temporary appointment for Mr. [Harry Robert?] Elmore; discusses Senator J. Cloyd Byars and the views of Bishop James Cannon on an upcoming election (1930); voting districts. A memo concerning Mr. Slemp's absence from his office is included.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647874416 View

Slemp, C. Bascom (Campbell Bascom), 1870-1943. C. Bascom Slemp scrapbooks [manuscript], undated.

Title: C. Bascom Slemp scrapbooks [manuscript], undated.

Scrapbooks compiled by Slemp.

ArchivalResource: 18 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648004695 View

Slemp, C. Bascom (Campbell Bascom), 1870-1943. Additional papers of Campbell Bascom Slemp [manuscript], 1907-1932.

Title: Additional papers of Campbell Bascom Slemp [manuscript], 1907-1932.

Discovered on property formerly belonging to C. Bascom Slemp, this collection consists mainly of Slemp's personal and political papers covering the years 1907-1932. Combined with papers from MSS 9507, the collections reveals much about Slemp's day-to-day activities and gives a good picture of Southwestern Virginia and statewide Virginia politics in the first quarter of the Twentieth Century. Correspondence topics include postal patronage, military pensions and discharges, and West Point and U.S. Naval Academy appointments. Account sheets from W.L. Lyons & Co. and William Morris Agency, Inc. give some indication of Slemp's stock market dealings. There is also a listing of legal cases on which Slemp worked as counsel, legal briefs, political lists, bills, and resolutions. Prominent correspondents include Joseph P. Brady, A. P. Crockett, R. O. Crockett, Joe L. Crupper, R. A. Fulwiler, George L. Hart, L. P. Summers, Jennings C. Wise, John G. Pollard, L. N. Buford, and R. T. Irvine (likely Slemp's personal attorney in Big Stone Gap, Va.). There is also considerable family correspondence which provides insight into Slemps' role as "titular head" of a far-flung family.

ArchivalResource: ca. 35,500 items.

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Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd, [manuscript],1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Title: Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd, [manuscript],1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Scrapbooks of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., contain newsclippings, programs, correspondence, pamphlets and miscellany relating to his early career. Some material pertinent to his father Richard Evelyn Byrd, and his brothers Richard E. Byrd and Thomas Bolling Byrd is also included. Specific topics include the appointment of Judge William F. Rhea to the State Corporation Commission; the murder trial of Robert O. Garrett; Tom Byrd's World War I service; and Richard E. Byrd's souvenirs from the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Also the Virginia Democratic Paraty; the Federal Fuel Administration; the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; the 1919 Virginia Senate race; the Valley Turnpike Company; the Virginia State Highway Dept.; taxation in Virginia; the 1925 gubernatorial race; Byrd's term as governor of Virginia; and Al Smith the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647906952 View

Calvin Coolidge Papers, 1915-1932

Title: Calvin Coolidge Papers 1915-1932

United States president and businessman. White House office files from Coolidge's presidency consisting of incoming correspondence, draft replies, carbon copies of outgoing letters from Coolidge or one of his secretaries, incoming telegraph messages, appointment books, and names and addresses of White House guests. Includes telegraph messages from the first months of the Herbert Hoover administration.

ArchivalResource: 179,000 items; 294 containers; 43 linear feet; 190 microfilm reels

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Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd,1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Title: Scrapbooks of Harry Flood Byrd,1897-1927 (bulk 1921-1927).

Scrapbooks of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., contain newsclippings, programs, correspondence, pamphlets and miscellany relating to his early career. Some material pertinent to his father Richard Evelyn Byrd, and his brothers Richard E. Byrd and Thomas Bolling Byrd is also included. Specific topics include the appointment of Judge William F. Rhea to the State Corporation Commission; the murder trial of Robert O. Garrett; Tom Byrd's World War I service; and Richard E. Byrd's souvenirs from the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Also the Virginia Democratic Paraty; the Federal Fuel Administration; the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company; the 1919 Virginia Senate race; the Valley Turnpike Company; the Virginia State Highway Dept.; taxation in Virginia; the 1925 gubernatorial race; Byrd's term as governor of Virginia; and Al Smith the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination.

ArchivalResource: 12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52711726 View

Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Title: Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Consists of letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1852-1918, U.S. senator from Indiana and vice president (1905-1909), and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks, 1878-1938, newspaper publisher. The Charles Warren Fairbanks material, which comprises the bulk of the collection, consists of correspondence with prominent political figures, businessmen, bankers, friends, relatives and constituents; manuscript and printed speeches of Fairbanks; law office papers; bills and receipts; miscellaneous papers; newspaper clippings; invitations; calling cards; pictures; slides of Fairbanks's trip around the world, 1909-1910; and miscellaneous printed matter. The Warren Charles Fairbanks papers, 1918-1938, relate to the settlement of the estate of his father, Charles Warren Fairbanks; the Indianapolis News; the Fairbanks Blue ridge farms in Piatt County, Illinois; and the Fairbanks Valley farms in Greene County, Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 150,006 items

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Charles Evans Hughes Papers, 1836-1950, (bulk 1905-1940)

Title: Charles Evans Hughes Papers

Governor of New York, secretary of state, and chief justice of the United States. Family papers, correspondence, speeches and biographical writings, subject files, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed and miscellaneous matter relating principally to Hughes's political and judicial career and his service on various international bodies and commissions.

ArchivalResource: 61,000 items; 233 containers plus 2 oversize; 86 linear feet; 150 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005012 View

Jaffe, Louis I. (Louis Isaac), 1888-1950. Editorial correspondence files, W-Z, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1919-1972 (bulk 1922-1949).

Title: Editorial correspondence files, W-Z, of the Virginian-Pilot [manuscript], 1919-1972 (bulk 1922-1949).

The collection contains files W-Z of Jaffé's editorial correspondence. Topics include Norfolk civic issues, including the establishment of Seashore State Park, improved race relations, Al Smith and the election of 1928, his Pulitzer Prize, Norfolk history, the firing of U.Va. professor Whipple for pacifist views, articles for Virginia Quarterly Review, and Duke University. Many of the letters are from job seekers, and many others concern columns and book reviews. Among the correspondents are Julius John Lankes, John Calvin Metcalf, Campbell Bascom Slemp, Lindsay Carter Warren, Duke professor W.H. Wannamaker, Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Junius Edgar West, Leon R. Whipple, Charles Harris Whitaker, Newman Ivey White, Walter Francis White, William Allen White, James Southall Wilson, Carter W. Wormeley, editor R. Charlton Wright, P. Bernard Young, Stark Young and Thomas W. Young.

ArchivalResource: 467 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647846320 View

Slemp, C. Bascom (Campbell Bascom), 1870-1943. Letters of C. Bascom Slemp [manuscript], 1908-1947.

Title: Letters of C. Bascom Slemp [manuscript], 1908-1947.

The collection contains carbon copies of some 300 letters (1935-1936) typed by Slemp's secretaries, as well as two printed volumes: Memorial addresses (1908), edited by Campbell Slemp, containing eulogies delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives; and a photocopy of Sketch of the life of John C.C. Mayo (1947), by John E. Buckingham.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647912149 View

Slemp, C. Bascom (Campbell Bascom), 1870-1943. Additional papers of Campbell Bascom Slemp, 1907-1932.

Title: Additional papers of Campbell Bascom Slemp, 1907-1932.

Discovered on property formerly belonging to C. Bascom Slemp, this collection consists mainly of Slemp's personal and political papers covering the years 1907-1932. Combined with papers from MSS 9507, the collections reveals much about Slemp's day-to-day activities and gives a good picture of Southwestern Virginia and statewide Virginia politics in the first quarter of the Twentieth Century. Correspondence topics include postal patronage, military pensions and discharges, and West Point and U.S. Naval Academy appointments. Account sheets from W.L. Lyons & Co. and William Morris Agency, Inc. give some indication of Slemp's stock market dealings. There is also a listing of legal cases on which Slemp worked as counsel, legal briefs, political lists, bills, and resolutions. Prominent correspondents include Joseph P. Brady, A.P. Crockett, R.O. Crockett, Joe L. Crupper, R.A. Fulwiler, George L. Hart, L.P. Summers, Jennings C. Wise, John G. Pollard, L.N. Buford, and R.T. Irvine (likely Slemp's personal attorney in Big Stone Gap, Va.). There is also considerable family correspondence which provides insight into Slemps' role as "titular head" of a far-flung family.

ArchivalResource: ca. 35,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56461512 View

Byrd, Harry Flood, 1887-1966. Papers of Harry Flood Byrd [manuscript] 1911-65.

Title: Papers of Harry Flood Byrd [manuscript] 1911-65.

Business papers range from 1914-1965 and consist chiefly of correspondence, bills & receipts regarding Byrd's apple orchards, with some material on Northern Virginia newspapers he published, and Cuban business interests. Virginia political papers, 1911-32, describe the organization of the Byrd machine but do not contain gubernatorial files. U.S. senatorial papers, 1933-65, still deal chiefly with Byrd's interest in Virginia politics though material on national interests is present. Complementing the political correspondence are appointment books, magazine articles, newsclippings, constituent's mail, 1957 & 1960-65, voting records, 1933-65, speeches of Byrd and others, public statements & press releases, scrap-books and political cartoons. Family papers contain correspondence and some business and legal papers of Richard Evelyn Byrds, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Flood Byrd, and Henry Delaware Flood. Topics of interest include the Democratic Party, Natinal Committee and the Democratic Party, Virginia, State Central Committee, Byrd's 1925 gubernatorial campaign, the Democratic National conventions, 1932, 40, & 52, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1934, poll taxes, Virginia election laws & Virginia elections, the 1952, 58 & 64 senatorial campaigns, the 1965 Civil Rights Act, Virginia highways, drought relief, 1931, the Alfalfa Club, appointments & other patronage for constituents, Byrd family genealogy, school desegregation, massive resistance, fiscal conservatism, local Virginia politics, the Bricker amendment & isolationism, and the Republican campaigns of 1952 & 56. Correspondents include Watkins Moorman Abbitt, Edwin Anderson Alderman, James Lindsay Almond, T. Coleman Andrews, Alben Williams Barkley, A.D. Barksdale, John Stewart Battle, William S. Battle, Ezra Taft Benson, Lloyd C. Bird, Armistead Lloyd Boothe, Claude Gernade Bowers, Louis Brownlow, David Tennant Bryan, Robert Young Button, James Cannon, Lenoir Chambers, Albert Benjamin Chander, Everett Randolph Combs, Thomas Terry Connally, Virginius Dabney, Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, Josephus Daniels, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Collins Denny, Everett McKinley Dirkson, E. Griffity Dodson, Clifford Dowdey, James Oliver Eastland, Cyrus Eaton, Dwight David Eisenhower, Pres. U.S., James Aloysius Farley, Junius Rodes Fishburne, Hiran Leong Fong, Douglas Southall Freeman, Carter Glass, Mills Edwin Godwin, Barry Morris Goldwater, Charles Johnston Harkrader, Burr Powell Harrison, Carl Trumbull Hayden, Herbert Clark Hoover, Pres. U.S., John Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, Louis Isaac Jaffé, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Pres. U.S., Robert Francis Kennedy, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Arthur Krock, John Llewellyn Lewis, Walter Lippman, Henry Cabot Lodge, George Walter Mapp, Michael Joseph Mansfield, Thomas Staples Martin, Lucy Randolph Mason, George Meany, Francis Pickens Miller, Edmund Sixtus Muskie, Richard Milhous Nixon, Pres. U.S., John Paul, Drew Pearson, George Campbell Peery, Gifford Pinchot, John Garland Pollard, Sam Rayburn, Absolam Willis Robertson, John Davison Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Brevard Russell, Leverett Saltonstall, Fred Otto Seibel, Campbell Bascom Slemp, Sidney F. Small, George Armistead Smathers, Howard Worth Smith, Margaret Chase Smith, Louis Spilman, John Cornelius Stennis, Claude Augustus Swanson, George Frederick Switzer, William Stuart Swmington, Herman Eugene Talmadge, James Strom Thurmond, Elbert Lee Trinkle, Harry S. Truman, William Munford Tuck, Millard E. Tydings, Arthur Hendrik Vandenburg, Henry Agard Wallace, Burton Kendall Wheeler, Landon Wyatt, William T. Reed, & Fred Weiser.

ArchivalResource: 273 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647934094 View

Slemp, C. Bascom (Campbell Bascom), 1870-1943. Papers of C. Bascom Slemp [manuscript], 1866-1944.

Title: Papers of C. Bascom Slemp [manuscript], 1866-1944.

The collection contains correspondence and other legal, political, financial, and personal papers of C. Bascom Slemp. The majority of the papers deal with Slemp's involvement in coal companies and the economic development of southwest Virginia and Kentucky. There is also considerable material on Virginia politics, patronage, the Republican Party from the mid 1920s to 1940, genealogy, local history, and the founding of the Southwest Museum (Big Stone Gap, Va.). Correspondents--many of them major state and national political figures of the day--include Alben W. Barkley, John W. Bricker, James F. Byrnes, Arthur Capper, Thomas T. Connally, Calvin Coolidge, Frank Crowther, Joseph L. Crupper, Clarence S. Darrow, Simeon D. Fess, Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, Carter Glass, Charles A. Halleck, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Charles E. Hughes, Cordell Hull, Alfred M. Landon, George C. Marshall, Waler H. Newton, John J. Parker, John Paul, George C. Peery, Claude D. Pepper, Thomas W. Phillips, John G. Pollard, Absalom W. Robertson, John M. Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Flemon D. Sampson, Joseph C. Shaffer, Hugh I. Shott, William H. Taft, Elbert L. Trinkle, Joseph P. Tumulty, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Henry A. Wallace, Wallace H. White, and Jennings C. Wise. Corporate correspondents include the Cosmopolitan Shipping Corporation (New York, N.Y.), the Elkhorn Jr. Coal Company (Millstone, Ky.), Gibson Oil Corporation (Amarillo, Texas), and Elkhorn Collieries, Rich Vein Coal Company, and Roberta Coal Company (all of Cincinnati, Ohio). Clarence Darrow letters are in box 66, in the file labeled "Financial & Legal Correspondence - Re: Pensacola Fee matter."

ArchivalResource: ca. 65,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647912090 View

Slemp, C. Bascom (Campbell Bascom), 1870-1943. Additional papers of Campbell Bascom Slemp, h 1920-1931.

Title: Additional papers of Campbell Bascom Slemp, h 1920-1931.

Consists chiefly of carbons of Slemp's political and business correspondence for the years 1920-1931 with information on Virginia and national politics. Also included are scrapbooks (including one on the 1908 Virginia Republican Convention), 1908-1916, account books, 1894-1916, and lists of voters in the Ninth District of Virginia, 1916-1922.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56461570 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Bradford, Gamaliel, 1863-1932. Lee Chapel papers [manuscript] 1923-1924.

Title: Lee Chapel papers [manuscript] 1923-1924.

Correspondence and clippings concerning the crusade of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to defeat plans for remodeling the Robert E. Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Contains letters from many people who took stands in the controversy, including: Gamaliel Bradford, Philip A. Bruce, William Cabell Bruce, John Drinkwater, Joseph J. Early, Carter Glass, Mary Johnston, Frances Parkinson Keyes, H. L. Mencken, Andrew J. Montague, Maurice Moore, Robert L. Owen, George C. Peery, William Gorham Rice, C. Bascom Slemp, Henry Louis Smith, William G. Stanard, Claude Augustus Swanson, E. Lee Trinkle, Rep. Henry St. George Tucker, Henry Van Dyke, Edith Bolling Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647966431 View

Cram & Ferguson. Architectural drawings, blueprints, and maps [manuscript] 1911-1948.

Title: Architectural drawings, blueprints, and maps [manuscript] 1911-1948.

The collection contains maps of Charlottesville, the C&O right-of-way, and of the Valentine and Turner properties; blueprints for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1934, by Peebles and Ferguson, Norfolk; plans of some Virginia homes including Greenway, Charles City Co., Sabine Hall, Richmond, 506 Park Street, Charlottesville, the Crisfield residence, Waynesboro, and Farmington Country Club by the Historical American Buildings Survey, Edmund S. Campbell, Charlottesville, and Baker Heyward and Llorens, Charlottesville; blueprints and plans for public institutions including state teachers colleges at Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg and Farmville, the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, and a school for the deaf and blind at Staunton by Charles M. Robinson, Richmond, J. Binford Walford, and Frye and Stone, Roanoke, plans for restoration in Williamsburg, 1929-1931, particularly at William and Mary by Charles M. Robinson, and Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, Boston; the George Rogers Clark Memorial, Charlottesville by Robert Aitken and H. Van Buren Magonigle; the Virginia War Memorial, Richmond, 1931, by Cram & Ferguson; a VMI statue, 1930 by Carneal, Johnston & Wright, Richmond; specifications, 1929, for renovations of Campbell Bascom Slemp's home, 1924, by Eubank & Caldwell, Roanoke.

ArchivalResource: 157 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647938132 View

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946. Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Title: Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Papers of Glass consist of personal and professional papers including correspondence, speeches, notes and memoranda, documents, printed matter, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous material. Much of the collection centers on banking and currency legislation, in the enactment of which Glass was active while in both Houses of Congress and while serving as Secretary of the Treasury. Subjects include: the Federal Reserve Bank Act and Federal Reserve system; the Federal Farm Loan Act; branch banks; currency [reform] bill of 1913; Emergency Banking Act, 1933; the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) to establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Bank Bill of 1935; opposition to the National Industrial Recovery Act; the National Labor Relations Act; the Bank Holding Company Bill; and the Office of Price Administration; Additional topics include World Wars I and II, particularly their domestic economic aspects; the League of Nations; the World Court; Democratic Party platforms and policies; the presidential elections of 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1940; Senator Huey P. Long; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; the attempted packing of the Supreme Court , 1937; neutrality legislation; disarmament; regulation of the coal industry; child labor; anti-lynching law; immigration restriction (especially Chinese in Hawaii); Muscle Shoals; trade with Russia; diplomatic relations with the Vatican; Four-Power Treaty; soldiers' bonus bill; tariffs and protectionism; and national defense. Virginia topics of concern to Glass or his constituents include poll tax elimination; Negro suffrage; highways; the University of Virginia Board of Visitors; patronage requests from Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Bedford, Campbell, Floyd, Montgomery, and Roanoke Counties, Va.; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; a national Patrick Henry shrine at "Red Hill"; the gubernatorial election of 1924; Bishop James Cannon, prohibition and the Anti-saloon League; the Skyline Drive; Spotsylvania Battlefield Park; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; the Virginia Fight For Freedom Committee; and operation of the Lynchburg News and Advance. Miscellaneous items of interest include a letter describing the early life of Booker T. Washingrton, election tickets for 1848, a 1906 recipe book, and letters concerning Glass' belief in the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship. In addition to speeches by Glass there are speeches by Edwin A. Alderman, Harry Byrd, Sr., George M. Coffin, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Pickens Miller, Al Smith, and Henry St. George Tucker. Among the many correspondents are : Edwin A. Alderman, Newton Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Alben Barkley, Bernard Baruch, William E. Borah, Chester Bowles, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Calvin Coolidge, John W. Daniel, Josephus Daniels, Colgate W. Darden, Westmoreland Davis, F. A. Delano, the Democratic National Committee, Marriner S. Eccles, James A. Farley, Douglas Southall Freeman, James A. Garfield, Samuel Gompers, Cary Grayson, Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G. Harding, Warren G. Harding, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Edwin M. House, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones, Joseph P. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, Huey Long, William G. McAdoo, G. Walter Mapp, Andrew Mellon, Eugene Meyer, Andrew J. Montague, R. Walton Moore, Henry Morgenthau, Robert L. Owen, George C. Peery, John G. Pollard, A. Willis Robertson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dave E. Satterfield, C. Bascom Slemp, Rixey Smith, Billy Sunday, Claude A. Swanson, Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Tumulty, Oscar W. Underwood, Samuel Untermeyer, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Robert F. Wagner, Henry A. Wallace, Paul Moritz Warburg, Richard S. Whaley, William Allen White, John Skelton Williams, H. Parker Willis, Edith Bolling Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Clifton A. Woodrum, and Walter Wyatt.

ArchivalResource: 215,000(ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647902109 View

Summers, Lewis Preston, 1868-1943. Papers of Lewis Preston Summers, 1814-1947.

Title: Papers of Lewis Preston Summers, 1814-1947.

The collection contains correspondence concerning genealogy, the history of Southwest Virginia, and politics, especially local politics in the 9th Congressional District, C. Bascom Slemp, and applicants for political positions. There are also financial and legal records for the newspaper The Virginia Republican; letterbooks and business ledgers of Summers; genealogical and historical research notes; and setting copies, galleys, page proofs, and drafts, of manuscripts for his books "Annals of Southwest Virginia," "History of Southwest Virginia," and the unpublished "Southwest Virginia in the World War." The collection also contains photographs, especially of "Distinguished Men of Washington County & Southwest Virginia"; newsclippings and miscellaneous printed material; World War I History Commission papers including correspondence, World War I military service records of men from Southwest Virginia, together with some letters and photographs; and 18th and 19th century bound volumes, especially pertaining to the Preston family of Walnut Grove, Washington County. The collection also contains a file on the Kl Klux Klan; lists of voters and precinct poll books for Washington County, Va.,1903-1929; a minute book of the Republican Committee of the 9th Congressional District, 1883-1912; speeches by Summers; transcript of the Abingdon, Va., Civil War diary of Hugh Johnson and his 1866-1867 weather journal; land plats; an 1814 letter from Thomas White with the 6th Regiment U.S. Army near Baltimore; papers concerning the Walnut Grove Cemetery Association; and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 20,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49622275 View

Charles Evans Hughes Papers, 1836-1950, (bulk 1905-1940)

Title: Charles Evans Hughes Papers

Governor of New York, secretary of state, and chief justice of the United States. Family papers, correspondence, speeches and biographical writings, subject files, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed and miscellaneous matter relating principally to Hughes's political and judicial career and his service on various international bodies and commissions.

ArchivalResource: 61,000 items; 233 containers plus 2 oversize; 86 linear feet; 150 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005012 View