Lee-Palfrey families papers, 1780-1932 (bulk 1800-1860).
Material type:
Mixed materialsLanguage: English, French Description: 1,500 items; 4 containers; 1.6 linear feetSubject(s): - Lee family
- Palfrey family
- United States. Legation (France)
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- France
- Topographical surveying -- Utah
- France -- Commerce -- United States
- France -- Foreign relations -- United States
- France -- Social life and customs
- United States -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Commerce -- France
- United States -- Foreign relations -- France
- Utah -- Description and travel
- Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
- Lee, Susan Palfrey, 1795-1853. Susan Palfrey Lee papers
- Lee, William, 1841-1893. William Lee papers
- Lee, William Barlow, 1805-1895. William Barlow Lee papers
- Maltitz, Mary Elizabeth Lee, Baroness de, 1799-1852. Mary Elizabeth Lee, Baroness de Maltitz, papers
Open to research.
Correspondence, diaries, journals, clippings, maps, photographs, and other papers of William Lee (1772-1840) of Boston, Mass., Washington, D.C., and France and of other Lee family members. Lee's correspondence and diaries detail his experiences as a commercial agent and secretary to the U.S. Legation in France. Also includes papers of Lee's wife Susan Palfrey Lee (1767-1822) relating to family matters and social life in Washington, D.C., and France; papers of his daughters, Susan Palfrey Lee (1795-1853) and Mary Elizabeth Lee, Baroness de Maltitz, and of his son, William Barlow Lee; a journal of William Barlow Lee's son William Lee (1841-1893) relating to a topographical survey mission to Utah in 1857 and 1858; an incomplete translation of a German diary (1823-1827) of Louisa Kalisky; and papers of Palfrey family members.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012107
Collection material in English, with French.
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