C. Constituent Mail, 1983-1994
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Constituent Mail subseries is organized into three sub-subseries: Case Mail, 1987-1992 (Closed); Computer Mail, 1985-1994; and Intergovernmental Affairs Mail, 1983-1986, 1993-1994. This subseries contains mail from constituents on a variety of topics including form letter lobbies of Rowland and personal letters written about issues of interest to constituents. Correspondence about specific legislation is typically filed in Series II. Legislative with the staff member who handled the topic in question. In Series III., C. Constituent Mail, however, most constituent letters do not have a personal reply from Rowland or his staff representative, but received a form reply, which is typically not attached to the letter, but filed with other form responses (see 2. Computer Mail, 103rd Congress for form replies, 1991-1994 and Series II. Legislative, A. Legislative Directors' Files, Kathy Bryant Hennemuth's Legislative Mail for early form responses). The only exception to this type of form reply is Intergovernmental Affairs Mail, which did receive personal responses from a staff member and/or Rowland. Some computer mail is not identified by topic, but numbered with a computer-generated number, which does not provide much guidance to the researcher. In these cases, the date range of the letters in the folder has been supplied. Administrative information about the computer systems used, instructions about handling computer mail replies, and early form replies are located in Series II. Legislative, Subseries A. Legislative Directors' Files, in Kathy Bryant Hennemuth's files, under Legislative Mail.
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Access and use restrictions
- Parent restrictions:
- Case mail and other restricted items are closed for 75 years from date of creation.
- Parent terms of access:
- Before material from collections at the Richard B. Russell Library may be quoted in print, or otherwise reproduced, in whole or in part, in any publication, permission must be obtained from (1) the owner of the physical property, and (2) the holder of the copyright. It is the particular responsibility of the researcher to obtain both sets of permissions. Persons wishing to quote from materials in the Russell Library collection should consult the Director. Reproduction of any item must contain a complete citation to the original.