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1. Simons family papers, 1887-1982

   3,850 items. 16 containers. 6.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Members of the Simons (Simmons) family, an African-American family centered in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., especially William H. Simons (1881-1938), Baptist missionary and Young Men's Christian Association official, and members of the allied Garrett and Nicholson families. Correspondence, diaries and diary notes, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to William H. Simons and his career with the YMCA in Burma, East Africa, and India and as a Baptist missionary in Nigeria.

2. Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue papers, 1941-1945

   2,000 items. 2 containers. .6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Haitian government official. Correspondence, minutes, agreements, financial reports, and studies concerning the formation and mission of the Société haitiano-américaine de développement agricole, of which Dartigue was a founder and vice president.