Administrative Information
Provenance
The Carnegie Institution of Washington gave the Reproductions Collection to the Library of Congress in 1935. It consisted of transcriptions of documents related to British ministers to the United States from 1791-1806. Transcriptions of documents and notes from other printing projects, including Instructions to the British Ministers to the United States, 1791-1812, by Bernard Mayo (Washington, D.C., 1941) and Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba deposited in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville, by Roscoe R. Hill (Washington, D.C., 1916), were added as a gift in 1941. Some items received with this collection were transferred to other Manuscript Division collections of reproductions from British repositories as part of the division’s Foreign Copying Program.
Processing History
The records of Carnegie Institution of Washington were arranged and described in 1990. The finding aid was revised in 2011.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Carnegie Institution of Washington Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Transfers
Material in the following list was received with this collection, but has been filed with the Manuscript Division's collection of copies from British repositories by archival citation. All are selections.
- British Museum Additional Manuscripts, 37293
- Great Britain Public Record Office
- State Papers, foreign, 225
- Admiralty 1: 492-497, 502
- Colonial Office 23, 37, 42, 137, 188, 217
- Foreign Office 4: 10-11, 14-16
- Foreign Office 5: 1, 4-5, 8-10, 13-14, 18, 22, 25, 29, 32, 35, 38, 41-42, 45, 48-49, 52, 74, and 83
- Foreign Office 353