A Guide to the Claude A. Swanson Papers
A Collection in the
Special Collections Department
Accession number 907-b
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Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
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Processed by: Special Collections Department Staff
Date Completed: 1997
Encoded by: Elizabeth Slomba
© 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open to research.
Publication Rights
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Acquisition Information
This letter was purchased by the University of Virginia Library on August 9, 1994.
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Scope and Content
In a one page typed letter signed, December 3, 1926, Senator Claude A. Swansonof Virginia(1862-1939) forwards a request he received from the Honorable John Hays Hammond, to Willard Saulsbury(1861-1927), Wilmington, Delaware, as one of the senators serving while Thomas Marshall(1854-1925) was Vice-President. In the letter, Swanson asks for a donation to purchase a brass replica of a bust of Marshall, now at the Capital, to be placed in his mausoleum in Indianaerected in his honor by the Scottish Rite Masons.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Claude A. Swanson
- John Hays Hammond
- Thomas Marshall
- Willard Saulsbury