The Theodore Roosevelt Collection The Archives . Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bortman, this collection holds some two thousand printed and manuscript pieces documenting the first two centuries of American life, with emphasis on the early history of New England, church history, military affairs, and the history of Canada and the West Indies.
Manuscripts dealing with the War of Independence are equally rich.
Other military manuscripts record the British government's expenditures on arms between 1688 and 1697, and the supplies issued by the Admiralty to troops in North America between 1715 and 1750. The collection also has very strong holdings of municipal documents such as deeds, marriage certificates and grant papers. The archives of several generations of two remarkable colonial families can be found in the Bortman Collection. Portions of the libraries of the Foxcroft and Mayhew families are in the Bortman Collection, and these books convey the intellectual concerns of the day. Consisting primarily of sermons, theology and religious biographies published in Boston in the eighteenth century, many of the books contain the elaborate holograph notes of their original owners.