The Harry Payne Whitney collection of William Collins Whitney correspondence
Contributors: Whitney, Harry Payne, 1872-1930
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20000
Subjects: United States. Navy Dept.; New York (N.Y.).; Politics and government; Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884); Tammany Hall; New York (N.Y.). Law Dept.; Foreign relations; Discovery and exploration; Fraud; Genealogy; Yachting; Political corruption; Horse racing; United States; Tweed Ring; United States. Navy; Social life and customs; Tariff; Presidents; Silver question; Election; Bimetallism
Description: Correspondence; business, legal, and financial records; genealogies; scrapbooks; printed matter; photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to William C. Whitney's service as corporation counsel in the New York (N.Y.) Law Dept. and as U.S. secretary of the navy in the first Grover Cleveland presidential administration.  Documents his work in the modernization of the U.S. Navy and his fight against political corruption and fraud in New York, N.Y., primarily in relation to Tammany Hall and the Tweed Ring.  Subjects include New York city and state politics; the Democratic Party (N.Y); national politics; and foreign relations.  Other subjects include Grover Cleveland's nomination and election as New York state governor and U.S. president; presidential campaigns, 1884-1896; bimetallism; silver question; tariff; social life in New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C.; horse racing: yachting: and Whitney family affairs.  Includes six scrapbooks containing photographs from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884) led by A.W. Greely.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, William C. Whitney's heirs and others, 1942-1979.

U.S. secretary of the navy, financier, and sportsman.

Collection material in English.