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Additional authors

1. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

Description

1. 5 ft. (4000 items)

Subject

1. Honduras.
2. United States -- Foreign relations -- Honduras.

Call number

1. *ZH-324

Language

1. English

Note

1. In Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.
2. Archeologist, diplomat, and businessman, Correspondence, business records, MSS. of writings, a bibliography of Squier's writings (1876), and other papers relating to his diplomatic career, particularly in Honduras, and his interest in archeology and ethnology. Includes material concerning the Honduras Legation at Washington, D. C. (chiefly 1860-63); Squier's service as Honduran consul general (1863-73); the Honduras Inter-oceanic Railway, ldt. (1853-70); his diplomatic posts as charge d'affairs to Central America (1849-58); U. S. Commissioner to Peru (1863-65); the American Ethnological Society; and his numerous writings in the anthropological and ethnological field together with MSS. and drafts of articles, chapters from a book on Nicaragua, and his book, Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1948). Correspondents include León Alvarado, Henry Bowen Anthony, John Russell Bartlett, Samuel Birch, Joseph Barnard Davis, George Robins Gliddon, Joseph Henry, José de Marcoleta, Brantz Meyer, Charles Eliot Norton, Josiah Clark Nott, Henry Seymour Sanford, Buckingham Smith, John Cresson Trautwine, William Wadden Turner, and Thomas Wright.
3. Described in The Ephraim George Squier manuscripts in the Library of Congress: a checklist, by J. E. Patterson and W. R. Stanton, in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, v. 53 (1959) p. 309-36.
4. Microfilm (positive). 14 reels.

Author

1. Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888.

Added author

1. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division.