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Scope and Content Note
The papers of Philip Lee Phillips (1857-1924) span the years 1885-1921 and consist of correspondence, writings, printed matter, and other personal material focused on Phillips’s work and career at the Library of Congress as a cartographer and chief of the Library’s Map Division. Almost entirely letters received, the correspondence is mostly from government officials, libraries and cultural institutions, bookstores, and publishers pertaining to his atlases and bibliographies and to his employment at the Library of Congress. Prominent among the correspondents is Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam.