GROVER CLEVELAND
                    A REGISTER OF THE ADDENDA TO HIS PAPERS
                          IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                  Prepared by
               Wilhelmina Curry, 1979, and David Mathisen, 1984

                            Revised and expanded by
                              Nan Thompson Ernst

                              Manuscript Division
                              Library of Congress

                            Washington, D.C.  1997



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                          ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION


      The Addenda to the papers of Grover Cleveland (1837-1908),
attorney, governor of New York, and president of the United
States, consists of material received by the Library of Congress
through gift, purchase, and transfer from 1970 to 1996.


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                   Linear feet of shelf space occupied:   .4
                   Approximate number of items:          300



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                               BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


1837, Mar. 18    Born, Caldwell, N.J.

1841             Moved with family to New York

1853-1854        Teacher, New York Institute for the Blind, New York, N.Y.

1855             Assistant for uncle, Lewis F. Allen, on _American Shorthorn
                    Handbook_ 
                 Assistant in law firm, Rogers, Bowen, and Rogers in Buffalo,
                    N.Y.; began study of law

1859             Admitted to the bar, Buffalo, N.Y.
                 Appointed managing clerk, Rogers, Bowen, and Rogers,
                    Buffalo, N.Y.

1863             Appointed assistant district attorney, Erie Co., N.Y.

1865             Defeated in election for district attorney, Erie Co., N.Y.
                 Formed law firm with Isaac K. Vanderpoel

1869             Established law firm of Lanning, Cleveland, and Folsom,
                    Buffalo, N.Y.

1870-1873        Elected sheriff, Erie Co., N.Y.

1874             Established law firm of Bass, Cleveland, and Bissell,
                    Buffalo, N.Y.

1881-1882        Mayor of Buffalo, N.Y.

1882-1885        Governor of New York

1885-1889        President of the United States

1886             Married Frances Folsom in the White House

1888             Defeated for re-election as president of the United States

1893-1897        President of the United States

1897             Retired to "Westland," Princeton, N.J.

1899             Lecturer in public affairs, Princeton University, Princeton,
                    N.J.

1900-1908        Published numerous articles and lectures

1901             Board of Trustees, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

1906             Reorganized the Equitable Life Assurance Co. of America

1907             President, Association of Life Insurance Presidents

1908, June 24    Died, Princeton, N.J.



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                               SCOPE AND CONTENT


      The Addenda to the Grover Cleveland Papers is designated as Series 11 of
the collection.  It comprises previously undescribed parts of the original
collection and material received by the Library from 1970 to 1996, and is
organized in subseries according to the year each addition was processed.  

      The 1970-1979 Addition is almost entirely correspondence dated
1882-1906, most of it original documents with some transcriptions and
photoreproductions.  Correspondents include Norval B. Bacon, August Belmont,
John T. Carey, Alonzo B. Cornell, L. Clarke Davis, Donald McDonald Dickinson,
Robert Dosia, John H. Finley, James A. Gibson, Thomas Nelson Haskell, Robert
P. Hayes, Robert Underwood Johnson, Edward B. Pond, William H. Rideing,
Francis L. Stetson, John A. Sullivan, and John DeWitt Warner.

      The 1984 Addition contains material from Cleveland's work with the
Association of Life Insurance Presidents.  Cleveland was retained as chairman
and counsel of the association and was elected president by its members in
1907.  The file includes letters from Cleveland and his wife Frances Folsom
Cleveland, promotional material, and financial records.

      The 1997 Addition includes an autograph album signed in 1886 by
Cleveland, members of his cabinet, and other prominent persons. 
Correspondence includes a letter to Fitzhugh Lee and letters to and from
William Lyne Wilson (1843-1900), who served as postmaster general during
Cleveland's second administration.



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                                CONTAINER LIST



Container No.    Contents

SERIES 11, ADDENDA, 1882-1909, n.d.

Box 1            1970-1979 Addition
                    Correspondence
                       Originals and transcripts, 1882-1906, n.d. (6 folders)
                       Photoreproductions, 1885-1895
                    Printed matter, 1884

                 1984 Addition
                    Association of Life Insurance Presidents
                       Correspondence
                          Cleveland, Frances Folsom, 1907-1909
                          Cleveland, Grover, 1907-1908
                       Promotional material, 1907-1911
                       Salary checks, endorsed, 1907-1908

                 1997 Addition
                    Autograph album, 1886
                    Correspondence, 1892-1902
                    Printed matter, 1896


***Last update 12/14/98 (kef)***