Correspondence, speeches, biographical material, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Bristow's service as U.S. solicitor general and U.S. secretary of the treasury in President Ulysses S. Grant's administrations and to his New York City law firm. Includes a letterpress book of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the U.S. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, concerning the whiskey frauds of 1875. Correspondents include William W. Belknap, James Gillespie Blaine, Henry V. Boynton, George William Childs, David Davis, Anthony J. Drexel, George F. Edmunds, Hamilton Fish, William Cassius Goodloe, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marsgakk Harlan, W.A. Meriwether, Horace Porter, and Noah Haynes Swayne.