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Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, prints, and printed material relating to Tompkins and his family. The cataloged correspondence includes two letters while he was Governor, one from John Peter Van Ness, New York Congressman, and Tompkin's letter to Rev. Peter I. Van Pelt on the creation of a college on Staten Island. The manuscripts consist of Tompkin's Columbia College valedictory address, biographical and genealogical items. There are 5 portraits of Tompkins and his wife as well as cabinet photographs of the Governor's mansion in Albany

Letters written chiefly to Clement relating to the history of the Indian tribes of upper New York State. The letters are from researchers in this field such as J.S. Clark, George S. Conover, W.L. Stone, William H. Samson, William Kirby, and others and discuss newly found facts, eye witness testimony of past events, and their own conclusions.