C. Chaillé-Long papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1800
Subjects: Correspondence; Geography; Discovery and exploration; History
Description: Personal and official correspondence, articles, speeches, news clippings, scrapbook, awards, commissions, maps, and photographs concerning Chaillé-Long's exploration of the headwaters of the Nile, his service as chief of staff to Charles George Gordon in Egypt, his activities as acting U.S. consul general in Alexandria during the bombardment by the British in 1882, and African and Korean geography.  Correspondents include D.F. Ardouin; Oreste Baratieri; Charles William de la Poer Beresford, Baron Beresford; Montgomery Blair; Sue Virginia Field; J.C. Aristide Gavillot; Paul Giraud; Ismail, Khedive of Egypt; Jean Jules Jusserand; Charles Marie Le Myre de Vilers; Paul H. Orillat; Edward Dean Proctor; Paul Taillet; and Henry Vignaud.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 16,352 (16,749).

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1975.

Gift, Mrs. C.A. Swann Sinclair, 1919.

Soldier, explorer, and diplomat.

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