The chronology on reel nine is very confused. The first half of the reel covers the years 1900, 1902 and 1904 and contains personal letters to Nixon dealing with state and local politics. The second half covers the years 1894-1895 and 1897-1898 and concerns various issues facing the state legislature, e.g., appropriations and expenditures for state institutions and the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, demands for a sugar beet bounty and tariff, assembly bills and petitions, and educational appropriations., 1900, 1902, 1904, 1894-1895, 1897-1898

File — microfilm reel: 9

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

From the Collection:

Includes correspondence from fellow political figures, constituents, special interest groups, and office-seekers concerning legislation under consideration in Albany; local and state politics, patronage, and other matters. Also, personal business correspondence; scrapbooks (4 volumes, 1895-1958) of clippings, cartoons, and broadsides, dealing chiefly with poitical events and issues during Nixon's public life; memorial resolutions, biographical sketches, and obituaries.