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The Correspondence series is split into two subseries: loose correspondence, organized alphabetically, and bound correspondence, organized chronologically. Both subseries include letters to and from William Franklin Sands and other members of the Sands family.

Collection-level Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Richard T. Crane Papers are divided into three series: the State Department Series (1915-1919), the Prague Series (1919-1922), and the Virginia Series (1922-1951), corresponding, respectively, to Richard Crane's years as private secretary to Secretary of State Robert Lansing; as the American ambassador to Czechoslovakia; and finally, as the owner of Westover Plantation in Virginia. There is also a quantity of photographs and other materials, filed separately.An addendum of...

Scope and Contents Topics of note are the Civil War, its impact on Georgetown College, and the availability of Catholic priests to minister to prisoners of war held by the South. Arranged alphabetically by sender.This folder contains letters from: Bishop Joseph S. Alemany, explaining that the wife of Colonel Samuel P. Inge was leaving San Francisco with her two sons and was traveling to the east coast with the intention of enrolling them in Georgetown College (7-20-1859); Joseph Aschwanden, SJ,...