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1. Browning family papers, 1824-1917

   900 items. 3 containers. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Browning family members including Robert Lewright Browning (1803-1850), naval officer, his wife Eleanor Hanlon Browning, and their sons, Robert Lewright Browning (1835-1860), marine officer, and Charles Henry Browning (1846-1926), genealogist. Correspondence, journals, biographical file, genealogical and other notes, newspaper clippings, and printed material of the Browning family.

2. Sir George Cockburn papers, 1788-1847

   4,400 items. 18 containers. 7 linear feet. 11 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   British naval officer. Correspondence, logbooks, journals, fleet orders, reports, and other papers relating to Cockburn's career in the British Royal Navy. Subjects include the War of 1812 and British naval activities against France and Spain, especially in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and Indian Ocean.

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3. Marquis de Lafayette papers, 1757-1990

   64 microfilm reels (34.5 linear feet, 25,000 items). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Soldier and statesman. Correspondence, letterbooks, writings, speeches, reports, minutes, notes, military records, financial and legal documents, family papers, broadsides, and other papers relating chiefly to the Marquis de Lafayette's military, political, and private life, as well as to French and American history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Subjects include Lafayette's involvement in the American Revolution and in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830, his imprisonment in Prussian and Austrian jails (1792-1797), and his dealings with French and American political figures and with leaders of revolutionary movements in other countries.

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4. John Davis Batchelder ephemera and special collections, 2200 BCE-1948

   480 items. 14 containers. -- Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Theater programs, playbills, newspapers, incunabula leaves, prints, official documents, bookplates, inaugural souvenirs, and other papers of prominent historical figures in the arts and politics primarily in the US, but also Europe. Persons represented in the collection include Albrecht Durer, Peter Schoeffer, Wynkyn de Worde, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Edwin Booth, and several US Presidents.

5. Autographs of European notables, 1422-1879

   9 boxes. 3.6 Linear feet. -- Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Records of the autograph letters, manuscripts, and documents written or subscribed by the Kings and Queens or other rulers of England, Germany, Spain, and Italy, including the Popes of Rome, and Rulers of France, including the Napoleonic collection. The documents are written in the language of the country under which they appear unless otherwise indicated. There are often portraits of the writers included with the corresponding documents in the collection. The European Autographs of Notables is part of the larger collection of John Boyd Thacher.