Basic template:
Author [to recipient if a letter], Publication Type if you want to indicate it, Date written/delivered/etc. [in brackets if not on the document but known], Manuscript number or location, Collection Name, Location, URL.
Examples; refer to the Chicago Manual of Style page for more
(Letter) George Creel to Colonel House, 25 September 1918, Edward M. House Papers, Yale University Library.
(Telegram) Burton to Merriam, telegram, 26 January 1923, box 26, folder 17, Charles E. Merriam Papers, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
(Anonymous document) Daily Expenses, July 1787, images 7–8, George Washington Papers, Series 5: Financial Papers, 1750–96, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwseries5.html.
Reference managers and quick citation generators can automatically format citations in the style you need. We recommend ZoteroBib for generating quick citations and Zotero as a reference manager.
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