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1. James Gillespie Blaine family papers, 1777-1945

   7,000 items. 48 containers. 20 linear feet. 21 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States secretary of state, United States representative and senator from Maine, and journalist. Family and general correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, memoirs, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Blaine's public career.

2. Hanna-McCormick family papers, 1792-1985

   47,300 items. 145 containers plus 13 oversize. 66.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, diary and notebook fragments, speeches, financial records, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers focusing chiefly on the political activities of Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. Also includes correspondence of Marcus Alonzo Hanna relating to Ohio and national politics and also to his personal and business affairs. Other papers concern the Chicago Tribune and its publishers, Joseph Medill and Robert Rutherford McCormick, grandfather and brother of Medill McCormick.