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1. Harry Payne Whitney collection of letters of William Collins Whitney, 1757-1942

   20,000 items. 148 containers plus 10 oversize. 41.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Secretary of the navy, financier, and sportsman. Correspondence, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, genealogies, and printed matter relating chiefly to William C. Whitney's business and political career in New York, and as secretary of the navy in the first Grover Cleveland presidential administration.

2. Ebenezer Foote family papers, 1751-1871

   60 items. 1 container plus 1 oversize. .2 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Continental Army officer, jurist, merchant, and legislator, of Delaware County, N.Y. Family and general correspondence, orders, petitions, and legal and other papers of Foote and various members of his family. Topics include the Tammany Society of New York, the death of Alexander Hamilton, the War of 1812, the incident aboard the frigate Chesapeake, the first Seminole War, and New York politics.