Scope and Content Papers concerning attempts to have the United States government ratify a leasing agreement for oil concessions near Brant, New York, made between Seneca Nation of Indians on Allegany and Oil Spring Reservations in the State of New York and Henry A. Walter as the representative of the Alden Aurora Gas Company and later the Shore Gas Company, both of Buffalo (the lease was ratified by the House of Representatives but never by the Senate); with copies of the lease, bills proposed, and...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, ...