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1. Louis F. Post papers, 1864-1940

   600 items. 11 containers. 4.4 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalist, lawyer, and public official. Correspondence, manuscripts of articles and books, biographical data, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Post’s career as a writer, public official, and advocate of the single tax.

2. Eugene Meyer papers, 1864-1975

   80,000 items. 282 containers plus 4 oversize. 109 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Investment banker, financier, public official, and owner of the Washington Post. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, diaries, oral history interviews, speeches, writings, congressional testimony, press statements, financial papers, family papers, biographical material, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers relating to Meyer's life and career.

3. Albert J. Beveridge papers, 1788-1943

   98,000 items. 390 containers plus 28 oversize. 167.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States senator from Indiana, lawyer, historian, and biographer. Correspondence, diary notes, addresses, drafts of writings, research material, records of interviews, printed matter, photographs, and miscellaneous material documenting Beveridge's career from his early law practice in Indiana to his career in the Senate, espousal of the Progressive Party, experience as a war correspondent in Europe, and his later work as historian and biographer. Includes source material used in writing biographies of Abraham Lincoln and John Marshall.