To All: The following is a selected list of some manuscripts and their locations. Maybe - if you're close, these would be of use to you. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, pub by Shoe String Press,Inc, various years for Library of Congress. 62-3428 Papers of Isaac Clark 1787-1868 Includes acounts of his niece Lucy Temple, and correspondence with Benjamin Temple. 62-3473 Papers of William Clark 1795-1879 Includes correspondence with John R. Temple 62-231 Papers of Mary Boyce Temple 1856- DAR Vice President General, papers related to Oliver Perry Temple collection 62-2152 Papers of Oliver Perry Temple 1820-1907 Historian and politician in TN. 62-1015 Temple Family, 1418-1749 In Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Family papers of family from Burton Dasset, Warwickshire, Stowe, Buckinghamshire. 62-1447 Papers of Wyndham Bolling Blanton 1890-1960 Virginia Historical Society. Genealogical notes on numerlous related familes. 62-4208 Temple Family, 1854-1899 Cornell University. Mainly correspondence and miscellaneous accounts of contemporary life in MA and MN 61-2743 Lee family papers, 1761-1882 Virginia Historical Society. Correspondence includes J. Temple. 61-1204 Archibald Hamilton Gillespie 1812-1873 Univ CA at LA. Letters and documents rel to many men, incl John Temple. 61-1330 George Pearson Buell 1833-1883 TN State Library and Archives. Corresp. With Oliver Perry Temple. 61-3135 Charles Tayloe Mason Papers 1854-1906 Confederate officer. Correspondence with C.F. Temple. 61-2613 Elizabeth Hawes Ryland Genealogical notes, 1930-1954 Virginia Historical Society collection, covers materials on TEMPLE family from King William and King and Queen Counties, VA. 64-1242 Picot Family papers 1753-1907 Virginia Historical Society, accoujnts of Benjamin Temple of Ampthill, Robert Temple of same, and Elizabeth Skyren Temple. 64-1222 Armistead Family papers, 1790-1939 Virginia Historical Society, genealogical notes on numerous families, includes the Temples. 64-1229 William Ludwell Harrison papers 1924-1957 Virginia Historical Society, genealogical notes on several families, incl the Temples. 60-536 Herbert Mortimer Temple, 1864-1941 Minnesota Historical Society, public accountant and auditor. Includes correspondence and reports. 69-1963 Anthony Butler, 1787-1849 UT Austin, Texas Archives, correspondence with Benjamin Temple. 80-312 Grace Lincoln Temple, papers 1892-1944 Smithsonian, American History Museum, correspondence and other papers. 81-86 Additional Temple Family papers 1609-1670 Huntington library, San Marino CA, Chiefly letters of Lady Hester Temple of Stowe. 81-924 Temple Family papers, 1675-1901 Virginia Historical Society, Chiefly personal papers of Robert Temple of Ampthill. 81-925 Robert Lee Traylor, 1864-1907 Virginia Historical Society, includes papers and correspondence with Robert Henry Temple concerning the Richmond and Danville Extension Company and Georgia Pacific Railway. 68-476 Thomas Edward Abernathy, 1794-1870 Tennessee St Library and Archives, includes correspondence with M.S. Temple 68-2078 Oliver Perry Temple 1820-1907 Library of Congress, manuscript division, letters received by Temple in his law practice. 76-123 Leonidas Campbell Houk, 1836-1891 Knoxville-Knox Co. Public Library, correspondence with Oliver Perry Temple. 76-128 Charles McClung McGhee, 1828-1907 Knoxville-Knox Co. Public Library, correspondence with Oliver Perry Temple. 76-132 Thomas Amis Rogers Nelson, 1812-1873 Knoxville-Knox Co. Public Library, correspondence with Oliver Perry Temple. 76-133 William Rule 1839-1928 Knoxville-Knox Co. Public Library, correspondence with Oliver Perry Temple. 76-860 William M. Temple papers, 1715-1972 Western Kentucky Univ, Bowling Green, KY, articles relating to the history of the area. 84-2131 James Boswell, 1740-1795 Pierpont Morgan Lbrary, NY, letters to Rev. William Temple (1739-1796) 84-1965 Temple, Nelson, Lloyd, Vassall and Borland Families 1656-present Harvard Univ., Houghton Library, papers of the Temple and Nelson families, chiefly relating to Nova Scotia lands. 84-1966 Temple-Nelson papers Part of 84-1965 above. Park -- L. Parker Temple Researching the branches of the TEMPLE family See my home page at http://www.erols.com/lptemple/house.htm