This collection was received in two deposits. The manuscripts, art, artifacts, and books from Congressman Foglietta's Washington office were deposited in 1998. The art, artifacts, books, and memorabilia from the Washington Congressional offices arrived in 19 transport containers; the political papers arrived in 25 records storage boxes plus one box with albums and scrapbooks. The art, artifacts, and memorabilia from Ambassador Foglietta's office in Rome were deposited in 2001. These items arrived in seven transport containers.

The bulk of Record Group 1: Political Papers consists primarily of Washington office staff 'subject' files. These files were maintained by staff members who were monitoring specific issues and contain materials such as correspondence, memoranda, testimony, personal notes, background information, draft legislation, and occasionally clippings and press releases. The files appeared to have been arranged chronologically. To reflect their use as well as the strategy and policy formulation for these issues, the files have generally been kept as they were found. Some are quite large due either to the nature of the topic or the fact that an issue area might have been transferred to another individual who would inherit the existing file on the topic.

The folder titles have been derived from the headings designated by the staff members. Within broad issue areas, the folders have been arranged chronologically to give researchers a view of what staffers were working on at a particular time. Within the folders, the documents are generally arranged in chronological order beginning with the oldest date. The span of dates within a folder can range from one month to two or three years. Again this can be attributed to either the nature of the topic or the fact that materials may have been merged as monitoring of issues passed from one staff member to another. Researchers interested in a specific subject area-such as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard-are encouraged to scan through all the folder titles in the appropriate section of the inventory to determine which might contain useful materials. The inventory lists detailed folder titles and describes the types of materials found within the folders.

It should also be noted that the staff reference notebooks have been maintained as found. They contain many useful materials that augment and at times duplicate items found in the subseries on PNSY. Researchers interested in this topic should consult both Series 1.1 and Series 8 in the inventory.

The items in Record Group 2: Art, Artifacts, Memorabilia, and Books, have been rehoused and preliminary inventories have been compiled.