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1. American Colony in Jerusalem collection, circa 1786-2007

   16,600 items. 64 containers plus 18 oversize. 37.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Religious community in Jerusalem founded by American emigré Christians, Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) and Anna T. Spafford, and perpetuated by their daughter, Bertha Spafford Vester, and others. Correspondence, diaries, minutes, notes, hymns, financial and legal records, scrapbooks, photographs, photograph albums, printed matter, and other papers relating to the history of the colony and its members.

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2. Jefferson Patterson papers, 1824-1981

   27,800 items. 87 containers plus 2 oversize. 34.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Diplomat. Correspondence, family papers, diaries (1928-1930), speeches, notes and book drafts, other writings, memoranda, subject files, legal and financial papers, biographical material, academic notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Patterson's career as a diplomat and foreign service officer serving at American embassies in China, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Peru, Poland, and Turkey, and as ambassador to Uruguay.

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