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1. Great Britain. Board of Trade records, 1682-1786

   13 items. 6 containers plus 1 oversize. 2.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Government agency. Reports, correspondence, orders, instructions, commissions, and other material relating to British overseas trade.

2. Charles McLean Andrews collection concerning colonial history, 1663-1800

   1,200 items. 3 containers. 1 linear foot. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Historian, educator, and author. Chiefly transcripts of manuscripts in various repositories in England. The material relates to admiralty courts and cases as well as trade and political matters.

3. Kermit Roosevelt and Belle Roosevelt papers, 1725-1975

   61,500 items. 202 containers plus 3 oversize. 80.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Author, businessman, explorer, and soldier (Kermit Roosevelt). Businesswoman and social leader (Belle Roosevelt). Correspondence, diaries, family papers, speeches, writings, subject files, military records, business and financial records, photographs, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other material reflecting many aspects of the Roosevelts' social, personal, and business activities.

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4. J. Franklin Jameson papers, 1604-1994

   61,000 items. 201 containers plus 7 oversize. 40.7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Historian and librarian. Correspondence, diaries, writings, lecture notes, biographical material, family papers, reports, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Jameson's work as an historian, his role in the founding and early history of the American Historical Association and the American Historical Review, the movement for the establishment of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the Dictionary of American Biography, and his work as director of the Department of Historical Research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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5. Sir Thomas Phillipps collection, circa 1400-1857

   1,100 items. 63 containers plus 1 oversize. 13.3 linear feet. 10 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Manuscript materials relating chiefly to various aspects of the colonial history of British North America and the West Indies. Formerly a part of Bibliotheca Phillippica, a library of manuscripts and printed books compiled by Sir Thomas Phillipps. Of particular note are papers relating to the Board of Trade and Sir William Blathwayt; letterbooks of George Macartney while governor of the Caribbean Islands; English and Italian genealogical material; papers of Jean Louis Berlandier relating to his surveys of the United States-Mexican border and to his various explorations in Mexico, Lower California, and Texas; English court records and reports; and miscellaneous papers of various colonies in British North America.

6. Charles Pinfold papers, 1641-1767

   11 items. 11 containers. 2.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Governor of Barbados. Bound materials relating to Pinfold's governorship of Barbados, 1756-1766, including minutes of the proceedings of the president and council of Barbados, transcripts of the island's general assembly, letterbooks, royal orders and instructions, and printed acts of the assembly.