Our Collection

At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Instructions to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00338 Author/Creator: Place Written: Philadelphia Type: Pamphlet Date: 09 April 1798 Pagination: 20 p. 21 x 13 cm Order a Copy

XYZ affair. Evans 34837. Sabin 34865. Disbound with paper wrapper. With date at top in ink: April 9, 1798

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