The Papers of Charles Sumner, 1811-1874.
Collection of about 26,000 letters to and from Sumner, collected from over 200 repositories in the U.S., Great Britain, Canada and France.
Autobiographies and Personal Papers
The Timothy Pickering papers, 1785-1829.
Pickering was a soldier during the Revolutionary War and one of the first Postmasters General. He later served as Secretary of War and Secretary of State.
The Thomas Penn papers, 1729-1832, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Stimson, Henry Lewis, 1867-1950. Papers and diaries.
Two sets of microfilm represent the complete collection in Yale University Library of diaries and correspondence of Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War in 1911 to 1913 and 1940 to 1945.
Papers of John Foster Dulles and of Christian A. Herter, 1953-1961.
Dulles was secretary of state under Eisenhower, Jan. 1953-Apr. 1959. Herter was Dulles' undersecretary of state, Feb. 1957-Apr. 1959, and succeeded him as secretary of state, Apr. 1959-Jan. 1961. The microfilm set includes White House correspondence and memos between Dulles, Eisenhower and his advisors, memos of conversations with the president, statements and speeches, Cabinet briefing materials, classified letters, and diplomatic notes.
The Papers of Albert Gallatin.
This set reproduces the correspondence and other papers of Gallatin as well as documents from the U.S. Treasury Department. Reel 46 contains an index to the papers.
The Felix Frankfurter papers.
This microfilm set includes the papers of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter held at the Harvard Law School Library. The bulk of the papers consists of Frankfurter's case files of opinions and memoranda spanning the years 1939 to 1962. Frankfurter retained his files for all the cases in which he wrote opinions of the Court, concurrences with the majority, dissents, concurrences in dissents, and memoranda.
Sir Frederick Haldimand : unpublished papers and correspondence, 1758-1784.
This is the microfilm set of the papers of General Haldimand, concerning his service in North America; they comprise British Library Add. mss. 21661-21892.
Knox, Henry, 1756-1806. Papers.
Knox was an army officer and Secretary of War. His papers, owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society and deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society, include family and business correspondence, correspondence with Revolutionary War associates, bills, receipts, ledgers, maps, and military records.
Edward Everett papers.
These are the papers of Everett, a Unitarian minister, orator, and educator.