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With the exception of trifling additions by purchase, they were acquired by the Library of Congress in 1904 and 1905 through the valued gift of Mrs. Smith Thompson Van Buren and Dr. Stuyvesant Fish Morris, who had inherited them from Smith Thompson Van Buren, the son and literary executor of the President. The preliminary work on the calendar was done by Worthington Chauncey Ford, now of the Massachusetts Historical Society, while Chief of the Division of Manuscripts; and it has been completed by Miss Elizabeth H. West, an assistant in this division.
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