William Sydney Thayer papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Subjects: Correspondence; Foreign relations; American Diplomatic and consular service; Genealogy; History
Description: Correspondence, dispatches, journals, essays, addresses, poems, family papers, clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Thayer's service as consul general in Egypt.  Subjects include Henry Lawrence Kinney and his 1855 Nicaraguan expedition, in which Thayer participated; Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; and Thayer family genealogy.  Correspondents include John Bigelow, Francis Dainese, Charles Hale, Henry Lawrence Kinney, and family members including Abijah Wyman Thayer, James Bradley Thayer, and Sarah S. Thayer.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, David Rankin Barbee, 1952.

Newspaper correspondent, editor, and U.S. counsul general in Egypt.

Collection material in English.

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