Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Contents | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Huntington Cairns papers, 1780-1984 |
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Span Dates | 1780-1984 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1925-1984) |
ID No. | MSS14746 |
Creator | Cairns, Huntington, 1904-1985 |
Extent | 58,450 items ; 167 containers plus 13 oversize ; 73.1 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | Author, government official, and lawyer. Correspondence, manuscripts and galley proofs of writings, speeches, subject and research files, family papers, printed material, scrapbooks, and other papers concerning Cairns's career with the U.S. Bureau of Customs as a federal censor of imported books and films, as a lawyer with the Maryland Tax Revision Commission (1938-1941), and as a writer on the arts, law, literature, and philosophy. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001024 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm79014746 |