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1. Huntington Cairns papers, 1780-1984

   58,450 items. 165 containers plus 15 oversize. 73.1 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Author, government official, and lawyer. Correspondence, manuscripts and galley proofs of writings, speeches, subject and research files, family papers, printed material, scrapbooks, and other papers concerning Cairns's career with the U.S. Bureau of Customs as a federal censor of imported books and films, as a lawyer with the Maryland Tax Revision Commission (1938-1941), and as a writer on the arts, law, literature, and philosophy.

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2. David E. Finley papers, 1921-1977

   31,000 items. 92 containers. 36 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Museum director and lawyer. Correspondence, subject files, financial papers, drafts of speeches and writings, family material, printed matter, and scrapbooks relating chiefly to Finley's duties as special assistant to Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew W. Mellon, his role in the founding and his subsequent service as director of the National Gallery of Art, and his activities with numerous other artistic and cultural organizations.

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