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    <title>Lee-Palfrey families papers, 1780-1932 (bulk 1800-1860)</title>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">fre</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012107">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012107</note>
  <note>Collection material in English, with French.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Palfrey family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Legation (France)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Diplomatic and consular service, American</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Topographical surveying</topic>
    <geographic>Utah</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>France</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Utah</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Susan Palfrey</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1853</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1893</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, William Barlow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1895</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baroness de</namePart>
      <namePart>Maltitz, Mary Elizabeth Lee</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1852</namePart>
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      <title>Louisa Kalisky papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kalisky, Louisa,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1823-1827</namePart>
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      <title>Susan Palfrey Lee papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Susan Palfrey,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1822</namePart>
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      <title>William Lee papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, William,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1772-1840</namePart>
    </name>
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