| AdminHistory | Born in Nevis in the British West Indies; New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787; contributor to the Federalist papers; first US Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-1795; championed a strong central government for the new United States; killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in New York City, 1804. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |