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  <titleInfo>
    <title>William Sydney Thayer papers, 1835-1901 (bulk 1835-1895)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Thayer, William Sydney</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1830-1864</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
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  <language>
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    <extent>1.2</extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Newspaper correspondent, editor, and U.S. counsul general in Egypt.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1894</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bigelow, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1911</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dainese, Francis</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hale, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1882</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kinney, Henry Lawrence</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1961 or 1965</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Thayer, Abijah Wyman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1796-1864</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Thayer, James Bradley</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1902</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Thayer, Sarah S</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Thayer family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Thayer family</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>Egypt</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Genealogy</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Egypt</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Nicaragua</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Nicaragua</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Filibuster War, 1855-1860</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Egypt</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Nicaragua</geographic>
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    <occupation>Diplomats</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Editors</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Journalists</occupation>
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