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Henry Justin Allen papers, 1896-1942
80,000 items. 214 containers. 85.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Publisher and governor of and United States senator from Kansas. Correspondence, supplemented by speeches, articles, printed matter, clippings, and miscellaneous papers relating to Allen's public career, especially his terms as governor and senator.
T.M. Cleland papers, 1880-1964
6,750 items. 27 containers. 11 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Book designer and illustrator. Correspondence, drawings, and title pages and designs for books and advertisements.
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Elizur Wright papers, 1793-1935
5,300 items. 29 containers. 8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Abolitionist, publisher, and actuary. Correspondence, manuscript and typewritten transcripts of writings, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Wright's involvement in the antislavery movement and to his work as an actuary and as an author and translator.
Joseph Pulitzer papers, 1897-1958
67,500 items. 193 containers. 77.2 linear feet. 163 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Newspaper editor and publisher. Family and general correspondence, subject material, business files, and personal financial papers relating primarily to Pulitzer's editorship of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Marcia Davenport papers, 1929-1970
4,000 items. 35 containers. 13 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author and music critic. Correspondence, drafts, galley proofs, typescripts, notes, and press clippings relating to Davenport's books and novels.
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John Callan O'Laughlin papers, 1895-1949
45,000 items. 107 containers plus 2 oversize. 42.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Politician, statesman, newspaperman, and publisher. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, reports, printed material, scrapbooks, and records of the Army and Navy Journal documenting O'Laughlin's career as a newspaperman and advocate of Republican Party and conservative causes.
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Robert Worth Bingham papers, 1856-1939
12,600 items. 41 containers plus 8 oversize. 20.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Diplomat, lawyer, and newspaper publisher. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, financial records, scrapbooks, appointment books, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Bingham's service as ambassador to Great Britain.
Grant Richards collection of A.E. Housman material, 1898-1947
1,500 items. 8 containers. 3 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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British author and publisher. Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, galley and page proofs, newspaper clippings, printed material, and musical scores pertaining primarily to Richards's biography of A. E. Housman.
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Frank Knox papers, 1898-1954
2,800 items. 12 containers plus 7 oversize. 5.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Newspaper editor and publisher, and U.S. secretary of the navy. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Knox's service in the Spanish-American War and World War I, his work as editor and publisher, 1936 campaign for vice president, and stint as secretary of the navy. Includes papers of his wife, Annie Reid Knox.
Eliakim Littell correspondence, 1819-1869
65 items. 1 container. .2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Editor and publisher. Correspondence largely devoted to Littell's work as publisher of Museum of Foreign Literature and Science and Littell's Living Age. Notable correspondents include James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, DeWitt Clinton, Andrew Jackson, William Hickling Prescott, and Thomas Jefferson.