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1. Thomas F. Bayard papers, 1780-1899

   60,000 items. 220 containers plus 18 oversize. 49.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Senator, secretary of state, and ambassador. Correspondence, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Bayard's career after the Civil War as a politician and legislator and as a cabinet official and diplomat during the presidential administrations of Grover Cleveland.

2. Jacob Gerhard Koch papers, 1783-1941

   130 items. 6 containers plus 2 oversize. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Merchant and marine insurance broker. Correspondence, letterbooks, diary, account books, ledgers, inventories, indexes, receipts, and miscellaneous documents relating to Koch’s investment business in Philadelphia, Amsterdam, and Alexandria, Va.

3. William Harrison Standley papers, 1895-1963

   2,500 items. 14 containers. 5.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Naval officer and United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. Correspondence, writings, military papers, and miscellaneous material dealing primarily with Standley's career in the navy and as ambassador.

4. Katharine Amend Kellock papers, 1924-1969

   400 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Economist and editor. Correspondence, project reports, writings, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Kellock's work with the Federal Writers' Project, the Department of State, and the Department of Agriculture Resettlement Administration.

5. Andrew Jackson Donelson papers, 1779-1943

   4,000 items. 24 containers plus 1 oversize. 6 linear feet. 14 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Lawyer, editor, army officer, diplomat, and presidential secretary. Correspondence, journals, draft messages of Andrew Jackson, diplomatic papers, newsclippings, scrapbook, sketches, photos, and other papers covering Donelson's career as aide-de-camp and secretary to Andrew Jackson, charge d'affaires to Texas, minister to Prussia, editor of the Washington Union, and candidate for vice president. Includes papers of Donelson's wife, Emily Tennessee Donelson, daughter, Mary Emily Donelson, and other family material. Also original documents relating to the ratification of the Constitution by Virginia.

6. William Edward Dodd papers, 1895-1955

   22,000 items. 64 containers plus 1 oversize. 25.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Historian and diplomat. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, autobiographical notes, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Dodd's work as an author, professor of history at the University of Chicago, and ambassador to Germany.

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7. Chandler P. Anderson papers, 1894-1953

   18,300 items. 63 containers plus 1 oversize. 25.3 linear feet. 3 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Lawyer, advisor to the Department of State, and international arbitrator. Correspondence, diaries, informal records and notes of negotiations, typewritten and printed documents, and notes for articles and editorials relating mainly to Anderson's work as a specialist in international affairs and international negotiator.

8. Bancroft-Bliss families papers, 1788-1928

   5,800 items. 20 containers plus 3 oversize. 8.1 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, diary, legal and financial papers, article and book galleys, invitations, and printed material of members of the Bliss and Bancroft families, including George Bancroft (1800-1891); his wife, Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (1803-1886), her first husband, Alexander Bliss (1792-1827); and their son, Alexander Bliss (1827-1896).

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9. Lloyd Carpenter Griscom papers, 1898-1951

   900 items. 3 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Author, diplomat, lawyer, politician, and soldier. Diaries, family and general correspondence, memoranda, speeches, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous personal and official items relating to Griscom’s career as a diplomat between 1901 and 1909 and military service during World War I.

10. Martha Dodd papers, 1898-1990

    4,900 items. 14 containers plus 2 oversize. 7.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Author and political exile. Correspondence, writings, research materials, memoirs, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Dodd's experiences (1933-1937) in Berlin with her father, William Edward Dodd, American ambassador to Germany; her exile (1957-1990) with her husband, Alfred Kaufman Stern, in Cuba and Czechoslovakia following indictment for participation in Soviet espionage; and her writings on topics including the civil rights movement in the United States, the Cold War, the Cuban revolution, and the conflict in Vietnam.