American novelist, orator, and social reformer, Ignatius Donnelly served as Minnesota lieutenant governor, 1860-1863, U.S. Congressman, 1863-1868, and state senator, 1874-1878. This collection assembled by Donnelly reflects his wide-ranging interests in literature, history, politics, economics and business, public affairs and government service. Includes such topics as General Land Office reports, Lincoln's assassination, slavery, impeachment, education, forests and forestry, Reconstruction, commerce, finance, labor, tariff, railroads, source of the Mississippi River, Farmers Alliance, Donnelly vs. Washburn--Cf. Guide to a microfilm edition of the Ignatius Donnelly papers / Helen McCann White. St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society, 1968.

Consists of correspondence, speeches, press releases, memoranda, scrapbooks, and other personal papers and documents from Kellogg's years of public service as a U.S. senator from Minnesota (1917-1923), U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1923-1925), Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Calvin Coolidge (1925-1929), and judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1930-1935).