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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

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January 23, 1900

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: [unidentified]

No dress code specified by McKinley for White House meeting. "They will be welcome in whatever apprel is most convenient and agreeable to them.

GLC08032

February 18, 1898

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Typed document signed

Title: to Czar Nicholas II

Telegram thanking Czar Nicholas for condolences he had offered for the sinking of the USS Maine. Typed on Department of State telegram letterhead. Stamped "2d Assistant Secretary, Feb 18 1898."

GLC00782.16

1898/06/02

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Elihu Root re: giving a son's body and arms to his father

Written as President to Root as Secretary of War. The bearer, Nicholas Fish, had lost his son in the Spanish-American War.

GLC02793.052

1895/11/26

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Autograph note signed

Title: to James Boyle re: Thanksgiving pardon

GLC07757

1898/02/17

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Telegram

Title: Telegram to Wilhelm II.

Accepting condolences for loss of Americans aboard U.S.S. Maine.

GLC07952

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