Scope and Content Note for Additions to the Collection
Additions to the papers of William McKinley are comprised of material received by the Library after the original portion of the collection was prepared for description and microfilming in 1963. Organized as Series 17 of the collection, the additions are arranged according to the year they were processed. None of the material in Series 17 is microfilmed or included in the published index.
The 1981 Addition includes items dating from 1872 to 1935, most of which is correspondence. The correspondence is organized as family and general correspondence with an additional file concerning the donation of McKinley's papers to the Library of Congress. Although most of the correspondence is from McKinley, communications from his contemporaries are also included. Correspondents in the general file include James G. Blaine, Julius C. Burrows, William E. Chandler, Henry Clark Corbin, William R. Day, William Wade Dudley, Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles Foster, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, James A. Garfield, Charles Henry Grosvenor, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Rutherford B. Hayes, George Hoadly, Robert Todd Lincoln, Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Levi P. Morton, William McKinley Osborne, James A. Saxton, and John Sherman. The printed material relates to McKinley's political career. Also included is a photocopy of McKinley's last will and testament, 1897.
The 1997 Addition contains a presidential pardon dated 1900 and signed by McKinley commuting the prison sentence of William H. White. The 2014 Addition consists of an 1897 letter by McKinley written to Marcus Alonzo Hanna.