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1. Ross A. Collins papers, 1906-1967

   11,240 items. 25 containers plus 20 oversize. 18.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Congressman, public official, and lawyer from Mississippi. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, reports, notes, clippings, scrapbooks, printed material, and other papers relating to Collins's service in Congress, especially to his introduction of the bill authorizing the Library of Congress acquisition of the Otto Vollbehr Collection of Incunabula. Also documents Collins's work pertaining to the mechanization of the U.S. Army, the career of Mississippi politician Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, and the claims of John Lick for enrollment in the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

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2. John Sharp Williams papers, 1902-1924

   36,000 items. 120 containers. 91 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States representative and senator, lawyer, and planter from Mississippi. Correspondence, biographical and genealogical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers documenting Williams's Congressional service. Pertains primarily to politics in Mississippi and the nation during the presidential administrations of Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding.