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1. Melville Weston Fuller papers, 1794-1949

   5,000 items. 16 containers plus 1 oversize. 6.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Lawyer and jurist; chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Chiefly correspondence, 1849-1910, between Fuller and members of his family, friends, and professional associates. Also includes printed matter, notes, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, and memorabilia. The papers relate to personal and family affairs; Fuller's student life at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine; his activities in Chicago, including his law practice, Democratic politics, and his real estate holdings; his term on the Supreme Court; and his work on behalf of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, negotiations for shipping rights of Muscat dhows, 1905, the Venezuelan boundary dispute, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Peabody Education Fund.

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2. Benjamin Franklin Fuller papers, 1856-1971

   35 items. 1 container. 0.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Union army soldier and clerk in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to Fuller's military service and family.

3. Fuller Sisters collection, 1880-1947

   approximately 2,400 items. 16 containers. 8 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Fuller Sisters (Oriska, Rosalind, Cynthia, and Dorothy Fuller) was an English folk singing group from Dorset, England, who performed English, Scottish, and Irish folksongs and was managed by their brother Walter Fuller. They undertook five tours of North America between 1911 and 1917. The collection chiefly documents these tours through correspondence, journals, programs and publicity materials, photographs, music and lyric sheets, and other materials pertaining to the Sisters's and Walter's lives.