Congress, and politics at all levels of government. The libraries’ partnerships with the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership and John C. Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development have further enhanced this center’s ability to promote research and interest in government. Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library In 2012, MSU became one of only five universities in the nation to share the distinction of hosting a presidential library when the Ulysses S. Grant Association board of directors designated the Ulysses S. Grant Collection at MSU’s Mitchell Memorial Library as the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library. The Grant Presidential Library contains copies of every known letter written by Grant and every letter written to him. This is the most complete collection of Grant correspondence in the world (some 15,000 linear feet), including copies of originals at the Library of Congress, National Archives, other public repositories and private collections around the world. The library also features three manuscript boxes of original Grant correspondence, particularly Grant Family material before and after Grant’s death in 1885. Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Collection and Music Museum The Charles H. Templeton Sr. Collection includes more than 200, 19th-and 20th-Century music instruments, 22,000 pieces of sheet music, and 12,000 records. According to world-renowned author and musicologist David A. Jasen, the Templeton Collection contains the most complete collection of Victor Talking Machines from their debut in 1897 to 1930. This collection, valued at more than $495,000 in 1989, serves as one of the libraries’ premier collections. Items from the collection are on display at the Templeton Music Museum, located on the fourth floor of Mitchell Memorial Library.
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