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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm81056705
Collection material in English, with French
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Henry William Ellsworth were purchased by the Library of Congress in 1976.
The papers of Henry William Ellsworth were arranged and described in 1984 by David Mathisen. The finding aid was revised by Karen Linn Femia in 2012.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Henry William Ellsworth is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Henry William Ellsworth are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Henry William Ellsworth Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Henry William Ellsworth was born in Indiana in 1814. He served as chargé d'affaires for the United States in Stockholm, Sweden, and Norway from 1845 to 1849. He died in 1864.
The papers of Henry William Ellsworth (1814-1864) span the years 1796-1886. The papers are primarily correspondence and duplicates of diplomatic dispatches received and sent while Ellsworth was chargé d'affaires for the United States in Stockholm, Sweden, and Norway, 1845-1849. Correspondents include George Bancroft, Friherre Jöns Jacob Berzelius, James Buchanan, Ellsworth family, Theodore S. Fay, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Gansevoort Melville, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, and Benjamin Silliman.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material and chronologically therein.