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1. Archibald Roosevelt Jr. papers, 1838-2002

   4,500 items. 28 containers plus 9 oversize plus 1 classified. 16.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Intelligence officer, diplomat, and consultant. Diaries, correspondence, international reports, photographs, notes, scrapbooks, school notebooks, clippings, and printed matter documenting Roosevelt's service in intelligence and career as a consultant in international relations.

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2. Leon Howard Sullivan papers, 1940-2002

   8,400 items. 24 containers. 9.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Civil rights leader, entrepreneur, and minister. Correspondence, speeches, subject files, clippings, printed material, awards, and other papers relating chiefly to Sullivan’s work with the International Foundation for Education and Self Help.

3. Simons family papers, 1887-1982

   3,850 items. 16 containers. 6.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Members of the Simons (Simmons) family, an African-American family centered in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., especially William H. Simons (1881-1938), Baptist missionary and Young Men's Christian Association official, and members of the allied Garrett and Nicholson families. Correspondence, diaries and diary notes, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to William H. Simons and his career with the YMCA in Burma, East Africa, and India and as a Baptist missionary in Nigeria.