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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82017491
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of William Edmund Curtis, assistant secretary of the treasury, were given to the Library of Congress by Curtis in 1902. Additional papers were given by his sister, Elizabeth Curtis, in 1929.
The William Edmund Curtis Papers were bound in 1945. A finding aid was created in 2005 by Patrick Kerwin and Lia Apodaca. The finding aid was updated in 2023 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of William Edmund Curtis is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of William Edmund Curtis are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, William Edmund Curtis Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of William Edmund Curtis (1855-1923) span the years 1885-1923, with the bulk of the material dated 1893-1896. The papers include family and general correspondence, financial papers, memoranda, notes, reports, code books, invitations, a biographical sketch, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and printed matter.
The collection relates chiefly to Curtis's service as assistant secretary of the United States Treasury and covers financial topics relating to silver certificates, gold reserves, deficit spending, loans, custom receipts, and inflation. The papers also include letters from Curtis to his mother, Mary Ann Scovill Curtis, chronicling his day-to-day activities.
Correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, John Griffin Carlisle, F. Marion Crawford, Charles S. Fairchild, Hickson W. Field, Richard Watson Gilder, Sir Edward Goschen, Sir Hugh Henry Gough, Sir Alan Johnstone, C. N. Jordan, Joseph S. McCoy, Maurice L. Muhleman, William Alfred Peffer, J. G. Rosengarten, James Speyer, and James Stillman.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material and therein chronologically.