William McKinley collection, 1898-[19--] | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Transcripts of telegrams (7 v., 1898 Jan. 24-1902 June 15), kept by Benjamin F. Montgomery, White House telegrapher, some telegrams relating to the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion, while others are from the period after McKinley's death during the Theodore Roosevelt administration; together with an item-level description (artificial collection) of outgoing correspondence, speeches, documents, and miscellaneous items associated with William and Ida (Saxton) McKinley held in fifteen ms. collections owned by the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, chiefly correspondence between Hayes and McKinley, beginning during the Civil War and continuing through the fall of 1892, and letters from McKinley to Arthur L. Conger (1883-1895)