T H E L I B R A R Y O F C O N G R E S S P R E S I D E N T S ' P A P E R S I N D E X S E R I E S

INDEX TO THE

Papers

T H E L I B R A R Y OF C O N G R E S S P R E S I L 3 E N T S ' P A P F R S I Y D E X S E R I E S

INDEX TO THE

Zachary Taylor

Papers

MANUSCKIPT DIVISION REFERENCE DEPARThlENT

L IBRARY OF CONGRESS

Vi'ASHINGTON : 1960

Library of Congress Catalog Card Nurnber 60-6001 3

Preface

T H E INDEX to the Zachary Taylor Papers is a direct rrsult of the wish of the Congrcss anct thr President, as expressed l)y Plil~lic Law 8 5 1 4 7 of August 16, 1957, to arrangr, inicrofilin, and index thr papers of the 23 Presidents whosc manuscripts :ire in thc Lii~rary of Congress in ordrr "to preserve their contents against destruction i)y war or other calamity," to rnake thc 'Taylor and other Presidential Paprrs more "readily avail;~l)lc for study and research." and to inspirc inforrrird patriotism. An appropriation to carry out the provisions of the law was approved on July 31, 1058, and actual operatioxis i ~ e g a i ~ on August 25. Thc rnicrofilrn of thc Taylor Papers Ijecame availaide in the spring of 1959.

'The ~nicrofilrll of the Taylor Paprrs and this indcx are the first film and index to I)r issued in this scries. Positive copies of thc filrri rnay Ile purchased frorn the Chief. Photodriplicatior~ Service, 1,it)rary of Congrcss, Washington 25. D.C. A positivc print is availai~le for interli1)rary loan through Chief, Loari Division, Library o f C:ongrcss.

Contents I'AGP:

Provcnancc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Srlected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How to Use This Index vii ...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keel 1,ist v111 ...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A1)l)revia tions ~ I I I

'l'hc Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Appendices

National Union C:atalog of Manuscript C:ollec~ions Chrd . . . . . . . . . 7

Description of thcs Paprrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Sources of Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Staterncnt of the Librarian of Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Index to the Zachary Taylor Papers

P RESIDENT Zachary Taylor's personal papers were largely destroyed or dispersed in 1862 when "Fashion," the plantation of his son

Richard in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, was con- fiscated by the United States Army. A sensitive Union soldier from Vermont who was thrre described the devastation dealt the property of Richard Taylor. then a major general in the service of the Confeder- ate Army: '

"I t is one of the most splendid plantations that I ever saw. There are on it 700 acres of sugar-cane, which must rot upon the ground if the Government does not harvest it. I wish you could have seen the soldiers plunder this plantation. After the stock was driven off, the boys began by ordering the slaves to bring out everything there was to eat and drink. They brought out hundreds of bottles of wines, eggs, presered figs and peaches, turkeys, chickens, and honey in any quantity. I brought away a large camp-kettle and frying pans that belonged to old General Taylor, and a!.so many of his private I have one letter of his own hand-writing, and many from Secretary Marcy-some from General Scott, and some from the traitor Floyd. . . . The camp-kettle and pans I intend to send home. . . . I think I will send home the private papers by mail, if I do not let any one have them. The camp is loaded down with plunder-all kinds of clothing, rings, watches, guns, pistols, swords, and some of General Taylor's old hats and coats, belt swords-and, in fact, every old relic he had is worn about the camp."

In this fashion the trophies and artifacts as well as the manuscripts representing President Taylor's long and honorable career were destroyed and scattered. Richard Taylor had purchased "Fashion" in 1851. His mother, the President's widow, "came to Fashion Plsntation to live with my Father of course bringing with her her husband's papers, belongings-trophies of the Mexican War etc.," Richard Taylor's daughter wrote many years later.* ". . . the Yankees burned the sugar house-dwelling house and contents-and

I cannot imagine how the few things we have were ever rescued . . ."

The Library of Conqre.;s tyyan to build its collection of Presidential papers frarly in the 20th century. By 1909, when Gaillard I lunr bec:lrne Chief of the Manu- script Division, the George Il'ashington. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew ,Jackson. Martin Van Ruren, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, and -4ndrew Johnson Papers had Seen gar- nered. Mr. Hunt addressed himself to the task of acquiring for the Library the Zachary Taylor Papers. Well he might, for he \$.as born in New Orleans, and his father, Il'illiam H . Hunt, had bem prominent there before his appointments as Secretary of the Navy and Minister to Russia. He was unaware of the soldier's letter which had been printed in De Bow's Review for he wrote to Betty Taylor Bliss Dandridge, the President's daughter. She replied to Mr . Hunt's inquiry saying, "All his papers, both public and pri- vate, were stored at my brother General Richard Taylor's Plantation. near New Orleans, and were destroyed when the house was sacked and burned [in 18621 by the Federal troops during the War." Mr. Hunt's efforts seemed completely frustrated a t this point. He wrote to friends and knowledgeable persons in Louisiana whose antecedents might have received letters from President Taylor. These efforts met no success.

Captain John R . M. Taylor had given some items in 1906 and a few other manuscripts had been pur- chased at intervals, beginning in 1904.4 These manuscripts were so small in number that they could be bound in a single volume in 1919. This was the Taylor collection for many years. T o it, in 1922, Betty Taylor (Mrs. IYalter R.) Stauffer, daughter of Richard Taylor, added two items as a gift and eleven others as a deposit.

In 1944 the Library purchased 64 letters written by Zachary Taylor to Thomas S. Jesup and eight related items which were incorporated in the papers. These items, while dated 1818-1840, relate largely to the Seminole Indian campaign in 1837 and 1838.5

The Stauffer family of New Orleans was approached

! Vermont TVatchman and State Journal, September 26, 1862, vol. 3 January 19, 1909, Manuscript Division files. M r . Hunt's

5 6 , no. 47; also quoted in De Bow's R e v i ~ w , new series, I1 letter is dated January 18.

(November, 1866), 538. .A list of Taylor accessions appears on page 8.

2 Betty Taylor Stauffer to Gaillard Hunt, June 30. 1922, copy 5 "Review of the Quarter," Library of Congress Quarterly

in Manuscript Division files. Journal of Current Acquisttions, 2 (November, 19441, 101.

by the Library of Congress in 1952 about converting the deposit made by Mrs. Stauffer to a gift. I n a

most public-spirited gesture, the family not only agreed but added nearly 500 documents of and relating to the President and to Richard Taylor, their great- grandfather and grandfather, respectively. These documents added significantly to the information available about the President's administration, to the management of his plantations, to the settling of the President's estate, and to Richard Taylor's plan- tation.

Several other small, but welcome, additions have completed the papers as they now exist. The number of items in the Taylor Papers is 631. The whole col- lection is now in two manuscript boxes and a large memorial volume.

The Library began in 1940 to formulate plans which would ensure the safety of its unique and particularly prized materials. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, and the declaration of war on the United States by Germany a few days later, Archibald MacLeish, then Librarian, directed the evacuation of the specially selected materials according to plan.

The Taylor Papers, as then constituted, with other materials, were evacuated from the Library on December 29, 1941, under the supervision of Alvin W. Kremer, Keeper of the Collections, to the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia a t Charlottes- ville. O n August 14, 1944, they were returned to the Library of Congress Annex. No item was lost or damaged in the vast evacuation program. The evacuation proved unnecessary but demonstrated that the Library of Congress in 1941 was prepared for eventualities as it had not been prepared in 1814.6

Since 1944 the Taylor Papers have remained in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, where they may be consulted under the usual conditions which govern the use of manuscripts. Original Taylor materials or copies of them continue to come to the Manuscript Division. Those which are re- ceived without restriction after the completion of this film will eventually be microfilmed and indexed as a supplement to the entire microfilm reproduction of the Library's Presidential collections.

Inasmuch as the bulk of President Taylor's papers were destroyed, searchers may wish to examine the personal papers of his contemporaries in the Library of Congress and elsewhere for information about him

6Most of the information concerning the evacuation oi materials was furnished by Alvin W. Kremer, Keeper of the Collections. A statement concerning the evacuation appears in Annual Report of the Librarian of Conprrss, 1945, p. 59.

and his time. The personal papers and sets of records which follow are in the Library of Conqress and con- tain a varying number of letters written t)y President Taylor, retained copies of letters written to him, and letters or other documents referring to him.

Aztec Club of 1847 C;ollection Clay, Henry Clayton, John M. Conner, David Crittenden, J. J. Ewing, Thomas Fish, Hamilton Holmes, George F.

,Jackson, Andrew ,Je\up, Thomas S. .Johnson. Reverdy Manqurn, Willie P. Marcy. il'illiam L. Saunders, john L. Smith. C:alel) it'elxter. Daniel

Many libraries and autograph collectors possess one or more Taylor documents. 'The Henry E. Hunting- ton Library, San Marino, California, possesses the Bixby collection. These original letters were printed in Letters of Zachary T a y l o r , , f rom thp Bu t t / ? -F i t l d s q/ the M e x i c a n W a r (Rochester, 1008). The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has Taylor items in the William M . Meredith Papers. (Meredith was Secretary of the Treasury in Taylor's Cabinet.) Zachary Taylor materials are known to Ilc in the William L. Clements Lillrary, Ann Artlor, Michigan, the Historical Society of Delaware, \l?ilmington, the Lincoln National Life Foundation, Fort \$'ape, Indiana, the Department of Archives and Manu- scripts of the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, the Minnesota Historical Society, St . Paul, and the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. T h e National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections when completed may reveal the whereabouts of other Taylor papers.

Selected Bibliography

"Annual Reports on Acquisitions," Lillrary of Congress Quarter ly Journal of C ~ ~ r r ~ n t .4cq11isitions, 3 (May, 1946), 38.

Dyer, Brainerd, "Critical Essay on Authorities'' in Zachary T a y l o r (Baton Rouge. 1946). pp. 420-433.

Garrison, Curtis MT., Li s t of Manuscr ip t C o l i ~ r l ~ o n s in the Library o f Congress to Ju (y , 7.937 (jl'ashington, 1932), p. 194.

Hamilton, Holman, "Manuscript Sources" in z a r h a v T a y l o r , Soldier i n the W h i t e House (Indianapolis. 1951 ), pp. 458-460.

"Manuscripts," Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, 4 (May, 1947), 82.

"Manuscripts," ibid., 7 (May, 1950), 27. "Manuscripts," ibid.: 10 (May, 1953), 160. McPherson, Elizabeth G., "Taylor Family Papers,"

Library of Congress Information Bulletin, 11 (July 28, 1952), 1-2.

Powell, C. Percy, List of Manuscript Collections Receioed in the Library of Congress, July, 7937, to July, 7938 (Washington, 1939), p . 10.

"Review of the Quarter," Library of Congress Quar- terly Journal of Current Acquisitions, 2 (November, 1944), 101.

Rowland, Buford, "The Papers of the Presidents," The American Archivist, XI11 (July, 1950), 201.

U.S. Library of Congress, Handbook of Manuscriflts in the Libra~y of Congress (Washington, 1918), pp. 405-406.

How t o Use This I ~ d e x

The index to the Zachary Taylor Papers is designed primarily as a means of ascertaining what documents

exist in this collection and where they may be found on the microfilm reproduction. I t is essentially a name index listing names of writers and recipients of letters, alphabetically first and then chronologically when the same name appears more than once. I t is not a subject index, but materials such as auto- biographical notes, testamentary papers, and portraits of Zachary Taylor found in this collection are cross- indexed under these subject headings as well as under the name of the writer. Some miscellaneous items, for which no name appears, are listed under a subject title.

T o find a document or furnish a reference, note first the series number, secondly the date of the document under the main entry, then turn to the date of the document in the appropriate series. Series 1 and 2 are on reel 1 and series 3, 4, and 5 are on reel 2 of the microfilm reproduction of the Taylor Papers.

This index was produced by the use of key-punched cards which were sorted and printed mechanically. This technique permitted a number of economies but imposed in return a few limitations. Some of the paraphernalia normally found in indexes and calen- dars had to be abandoned. Many of the peculiari- ties-for example, the use of columns-of this index are illustrated in the following sequence of mock entries:

Writer or Recipient Date S. P. Addenda

FILLMORE MILLARD TO ZT KENT G PEALE TO EDWARD H MARSHALL LANDERS MARTHA M TO DELIA TAYLOR MARSHALL EDWARD H TO ZT MARSHALL EDWARD H TO ZT MARSHALL EDWARD H FR KENT & PEALE MARSHALL EDWARD H TO ZT MARSHALL EDWARD H FR T S JESUP MARSHALL EDWARD HESSELTINE MORGAN GEORGE W TO ZT TROY NY C I T I Z E N S COM TO Z T UNKNOWN TO UNKNOWN WHIG NATIONAL COM TO ZT WRIGHT MERCEDES FR ZT

The names of correspondents-that is, writers of letters to President Taylor or persons addressed by him, including organizations and governnlental agencies-are arranged alphabetically as in column one. A letter not written by or to President Taylor is indexed both by writer and recipient as in the second and sixth entries. Any correspondence on behalf of an organization, public or private, is indexed under

1 8 5 0 J L 3 1 6 1 8 5 0 AP 2 9 2 2 1 8 2 6 D E 3 1 6 1 1 8 4 9 J L 1 6 2 4 ADAMS 1 8 4 8 MY 4 1 8 4 9 AG 1 8 4 2 FRAGMENT 1 8 5 0 AP 29 2 2 1 8 5 0 MY 1 9 2 2 1 8 5 6 MR 19 3 2 ACCOUNTS SEE MARSHALL EDWARD H 1 8 1 3 AP 1 1 1 1 8 4 8 D E 3 1 7 1 1 8 1 4 DE 2 4 1 1 M I N N I E TO E L S I E 1 8 4 7 3E 9 2 4 1 8 4 2 OC 4 1 1 1 8 4 4 OC 4

the name of the organization rather than the name of the writer, as in the thirteenth entry; the Whig National Committee is indexed rather than the name of the secretary who would have signed the letter. Such corporate entries, if local in scope, are indexed under their geographical locations, as in the eleventh entry. Except for the largest cities, the name of the town or county is followed by the abbreviated state

name. If the writer of an unsigned letter cannot he identified. the entry is indexed under the \vord UX- KNO\VN in its proper alphal~erical position as in the example. President Taylor's name is not listed in the index column except in cases where he is the author of a document such as his will. The names of other Presidents appear in full as in the first entry.

Since space is limited in the ivriter-recipient column, the second name appearing in this column^ usually following "to" or "from." is frequently qiven in a shortened or abbreviated form. In such cases the second name (except for President Taylor's name) is also entered fully in the normal alphahetical order. For example, in the eighth entry of the sample index. the name given as T S JESUP \vould appear in the ,J section of the complete index as JESLTP T H O M A S SIDNEY. IYhen lack of space does not permit use of the full name for an indexed item, a short form must be used as in sample entries four through eight but the full name is given separately in a cross refer- ence as in the ninth sample entry. All titles-civil, military. ecclesiastical, hereditary, honorary. and others-are omitted.

The date column calls for little comment l~eyond emphasizing what has already been mentioned. i.e.. when there are t ~ v o or more entries for a single name in this-index, they are arranged chronologically re- gardless of the person addressed or the nature of the document. Manuscripts indexed with inclusive dates (accounts, t~ills, items of uncertain date) are a r r an ,~ed by their latest date. Abbreviations for the names of the months have heen reduced to two letters.

The particular attention of the llser is invited to the fact that the number of pages for an item includes every page which has an); \vriting. A page t ~ y this definition includes envelopes or cover sheets, docket entries, endorsements of one or more words. file num- bers and similar ~vriting. Only notations made by the Library of Congress are excluded from the page count.

The final or addenda column of the index has been used as a "catch-all" for data ivhich cannot he fitted into the closely calculated spacing of the main entry. Documents other than letters are, in each instance. identified in this column, occasionally by content but more often by form. \%*hen a date. or a name and date, appear in the addenda the manuscript is for some reason not in its place in the normal chrono- logical order on the microfilm and in the manuscript

furnish the cross reference for findino; the Inanu- script.

For information concernin? thc series arranycinent. see the description which appears on pace 8 and the reel list which follows.

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Abbreviations

Agric: Ayricultural, Agriculture

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Asst: Assistant

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Certif: Certificatq Certification

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Command : Com- manding

En: Enclosed] Enclosure

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1 - s : \.eraus

ZT : Lachar!. Taylor

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covering letter rather than under its own date. In rrhoIiy or in part, or doubtful of name or the fourth and fourteenth sample entries the addenda date.

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S. P. Addenda

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I Writer or Recipient Date S.

WHLTt MAUN5EL G CO TO R I C H A R D TAYLOR 1851 WHITE M A d N S k L t CO 1 0 R I C H A R D TAYLOR 1851 W H I T E MAUNSEL L CO TO R I C H A R U TAYLOR 1851 W H I T E MAUNSEL L CO TO R I C H A R U TAYLOR 1851 W H l T t MAUNbEL L CO l O * R I C H A R U TAYLOR I852 w H I T F MAUNSEL L CO TO R I C H A R D TAYLOR 1852 w H l T t n A U N s t L 6 CO TO'RICHARD TAYLOR 1852 w H 1 T t ~ A l l N 5 t L L CO 10 R I C H A R D TAYLOR 1652 W I L L W I L L I S GEORGE t i F R Z T WILMINGTON U ~ L C I T I L ~ N S ' COM T O L T W I L S O N H J F R * S A M U t L M A C K t N Z I t W I L S O N JOHN T O f W L L L I A M W 5 B L I S S W I L 5 U N L 1 E T A L FR Z T W I S C O N S I N - u S MARSHAL FR*G CRAWFORD dOGENCRAFT 0 M TO Z T 1847

*WOOD ROBERT CROOK F R F GRANGER 1849 WOOL JOHN E FR ZT 1847

*WOOLEY A K TO ZT 1849

P. Addenda

2 ACCOUNTS 2 ACCUUNTS 4 ACCOUNTS 2 ACCOUNTS 2 ACCOUNTS 2 ACCOUNTS 2 ACCUUNTS 2 ACCOUNT5

TAYLOR ZACHARY I T Y P c D T R A N S C R I P T 3 l N v 1 T A T l O N 3 4 1 DRAFT 2 2 2 8 WITH COPY

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Appendices

For the convenience of users of this index, a description of the Taylor Papers and a statement by the Librarian of Congress, both of which appear with the microfilm

copy of the manuscripts, follow. For the same reason, the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections card description of these papers is reprodcced below.

Taylor, Zachary, Pres. U. S., 1784-1850. Papers, 1814-1931.

631 items.

In Library of Congress, Manuscript Di~ision. Correspondence, n~ilitary papers, an autobiographical account

(ca. 1826), documents relating to Taylor's estate and to the manage- ment of the plantation Fashion in Louisiana by Taylor's son Richard, and a small amount of miscellaneous material about Taylor. Includes some fifty letters (181740) from Taylor and others to Thomas S. Jesup. Other correspondents include John N. Clayton, George W. Crawford, Jefferson Davis, Jalnes I<. Polk, Thomas IT. Ringgold, and Winfield Scott.

Index by correspondents prepared for publication, 1939.

(Continued on next card) Jld 59-181

111

Taylor, Zachary, Pres. U . S., 1784-1850. Papers, 1814- 1931. (Card 2)

Gift of Walter J. Stauffer and Mrs. Lewis Hardie on k l ~ a l f of the Stauffer family, 1952. Other items acquired by gift or purchase, 1901-58.

1. U. S. - History, Military -To 1900. 2. Farm management - Louisiana. L Taylor, Richard, 18Zt&1879. n. Jesup, Thomas Sid- ney, 1788-1860.

MS 59-181

Library of Congress 111

DESCRIPTION OF THE PAPERS

The papers of Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) army officer and President of the United States, \\.ere given to his son, Richard Taylor. and were almost corn- plete:y destroyed during the Civil 1Var. The manu- scripts which appear on this rnicrofilln and represcnt a large part of the surviving docurxentation ll-ere given to the Library of Congress in 1952 by 1YaIter J . Stauffer and his sister, Mrs. Lelvis Hardie. on behalf of the Stauffer family. Other Taylor items have been acquired from other sources. .4 complete list of acquisitions since 1904 is appended to this statement.

The Taylor Papers are arrang-ed in five series:

S ~ r i e s I . Autot~iographical account. Ca. 1826 . 15-page account of President Taylor's life. bolo-

graph. ,Series 2. General Correspondeilce. 1814-1 850.

Two manuscript hoses. Letters and copies of letters, hy or to President Taylor. and other documents. Arranged chronologicaliy.

Srries 3. Family Papers. 1837-1 887. Letters, receipts, and other documents reflecting. the settlement of Taylor's estate. the Life of Richard Taylor (1 826-1 8 7 9 ) , President Tay- lor's son. and his management of a plantation in Louisiana.

Series 4. Miscellany. 1820-1 931 . Nelvspaper clippings, a map, parnph!ets, and

other miscellaneous material. Series 5. Memorial Volume. 1 8 i 0 .

One large volume in memory of President Taylor.

The user is cautioned that the pr~l~lication of thr con-

tents of this microfilm may !,e construrd as constituting a violation of literary property rights. 'I'hesc. riyhrs

derive frorn the principle of common la\<- that the lrriter of an unpul~lished letter or other ~lianuscript has the sole right to pul~lich the contcnts thereof. unless he affirmatively parts with the riqht: thc right descends to his leg-al heirs reg-ardless of the o~vnership of the physical manuscript itself. It is thr rcsponsi-

t~ility of an author or his pu1)lishcr to secure the per~nission of the owner of literary property riqhts in unpublished writings.

In the case of the Zachary Taylor Papers. the literary property rights in ~nanuscripts Lvritten 11y President Taylor have 11een dedicated :o thc pul~lic. This dedication. of coarse, does not apply to clocu- rnents other than those lvritterl 1))- Pre\idcnr Taylor.

SOURCES OF ACQUISITION Access1011 number

566 71 8 1015 pt. 68 1039 pt, 21 1043 pts. 10, 41 1173 pt. 5 2663

Source of Acquisrrron Year Access im nurnbpr

Purchase. 1935 5214 Gift of John R. M. Taylor. Purchase. Purchase. 1937 5452 Purchase. 1942 6826 Purchase. Gift of Mrs. \\'alter R .

Stauffer. Deposit by Mrs. \\'alter R.

Stauffer: converted to gift 1952.

Purchase. Gift of Mrs. 11'. .4. Croffut. Gift of Richard 6V. Hale. Purchase.

Purchase.

Photostats of originals in Historical Society of Del- a\vare.

Photostats of originals

o\vned by R . h1. Kaufllnann.

Ne~vspaper clipping.

7168 pt. 9

7371

7483 pt. 2

7955 pt. 2

8138

8247

8310 pt. 2

9091

9265 pt. 2

9352

rourcc of .4cqw rlijotl

Photostats of oriqinals owned 11y IVashinyton C:athedral Lil~rary .

Transferred.

Photostats of oriqinals in Lil~rary of C:ong-ress.

Purchase.

Gift of David Rankin Bar1)cc.

Purchase.

Purchase.

Purchase.

Purchase.

Purchase.

Purchase.

Gift of Harry B. Smith.

Photostats of originals oh~ced 11y Richard Helms.

Gift of tile Stauffer family.

Gift of Thornas Groom.

Purchase.

STATEMENT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS

The following statement on the Presidential Papers Program appears on the microfilm qf cach group of papers:

The personal papers of 23 Presidents of the United States are in the Library of Congress. Under an Act of Congress (Public Law 85-147) approved August 16, 1957, the Librarian of Congress was directed to arrange, microfilm, and index these papers. The purpose of the legislation was to provide greater security through the wide distribution of copies of the microfilm and to facilitate the use of the papers by scholars and others. An appropriation for this work was made in August 1958, and the project was begun the same month. Presidents whose papers are in the Library are:

George Washington James K. Polk Thomas Jefferson Zachary Taylor James Madison Franklin Pierce James Monroe Abraham Lincoln Andrew *Jackson Andrew Johnson Martin Van Buren Ulysses S. Grant William H . Harrison James A. Garfield J ~ h n Tyler

Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William H. Taft Woodrow Wilson Calvin Coolidge

The size and complexity of the groups of Presidential papers vary greatly. One group of Presidential papers contains fewer than 1,000 documents and is arranged in a simple chronological order. Another contains about 500,000 documents and will require division into a number of series with different internal arrangements. A spe- cific statement about each group of Presidential papers follows this general statement.

The user is advised that indexes (largely of correspondents in the papers) will be prepared and published in book form. Announcements concerning the availability of the indexes as well as of microfilms of other groups of Presidential papers will be made from time to time. Inquiry may be made of the Chief of the Manuscript Divi- sion concerning future publication plans.

L. QUINCY MUMFORD, Librarian of Congress.

December 29, 1958

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