El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-26
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in wagons from Monticello to Wash
ington The Jefferson papers We're not
a part of the library. They We're ac-
qUired after Jefferson's death. and
were bought of his descendants for
about SO, 600 These papers contained
a record of the whole career Of JEFF
ferson only about One-fifth of them
nave ever been published, and It IS
out of the question for the government
70 ever publish them all"
Our Madison collection came from
two separate purchases Madison pre-
pared certain Of his papers Tor pupli-
cation before ne died. and congress
bought some Of these shortly after his
death. Later on ne bought the remain
der. Then some of the papers fell into
the hands of his stepsOn; Payne TODD,
who deposited them with James G. Nc
CURE OF Washington. Mcclure was 4
collector of manuscripts de mad
loaned Todd money and Todd had given
him the papers as security. and when
the debt was not paid they fell into
his hands. Later on the Mcguire col
lection was sold to the Chicago Histor-
zeal society, and II was only a year or
so ago that I persuaded that society "a
sell them to US. The heads of the
society We're business men They
thought that the Madison collection
rightly belonged to the National Lii
brary, and they gave 1t to US at Just
pers comprised 10 volumes, and the
items in our Madison documents alto
sether are in theneighbOrhOOd Of So
00O'
Some Monroe Papers.
we have also some papers of Mon
roe, and some which were bought from
the descendants of John Quincy Adams
Many of these have not been bound as
yet. We have a large collection OF
documents relating to Andrew Jack
son was given by Gen. JacksOns
adopted son TO his friend Francis p.
Blair, and Blair's descendants turned
them all over to the government about
five years ago In addition to this col
lection, there were a large number OF
JackSOnS letters and papers in the
hands of his adopted sons widow. /
bought those manuscripts from her
about two years ago. so that altogether
we have now a remarkab Iv complete
collection of the Jackson papers. They
number about 10000 documents or
items They begin with Jackson's early
youth and run on down to his death
How about your collection of Van
Buren,, Tyler and POdlC2'
Van Buren, did not leave a great
many papers, said Air- Hunt. He was
a very cautious man and he destroyed
many of his letters Still we have d
large collection which was presented
to the library about six years ago by
his descendants We have very many
papers of James K. Polk which the
government bought from his descend
ants Polk was careful and methOdicaI.
He saved letters and papers. and we
have altogether thirty or forty thous-
ands of his documents.
We have scattering papers Of VIII
liam Henry Harrison. Zach Taylor and
Willard Fillmore, but we have no col
lections of there presidents. Thee Fill
more papers are in the custody of the
Buffalo Historical society and they will
probably be sent here after a while.
They are not very important, but Fill
more himself was not important. He
was not nearly as strong as Tyler. John
Tyler was a personality. Fillmore was
IN many respects momentity. As 10
the papers Of Zachary Taylor, after his
death they remained in the hands of
his son on the old Taylor plantation in
Louisiana. Then the house was burned
down and all the papers destroyed. The
papers of William Henry Harrison were
lost in the same way at the time his