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The papers of Ephraim George Squier

Correspondence, business records, manuscripts, 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 Interoceanic Railway, Ltd. (1853-70); his diplomatic posts as chargé d'affaires to Central America (1849-58) and U.S. Commissioner to Peru (1863-65); the American Ethnological Society; the New York Anthropological Society; and his numerous writings in the anthropological and ethnological field; together with manuscripts and drafts of articles, chapters from a book on Nicaragua, and his book, "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley" (1848). Correspondents include León Alvarado, Henry Bowen Anthony, John Russell Bartlett, Samuel Birch, Joseph Barnard Davis, George Robins Gliddon, Joseph Henry, José de Marcoleta, Brantz Mayer, Charles Eliot Norton, Josiah Clarke Nott, Henry Shelton Sanford, Buckingham Smith, John Cresson Trautwine, William Wadden Turner, and Thomas Wright.

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