Papers, 1769–1901, ca. 60 ft., 50,000 items. Lawyer, businessman, and diplomat. In 1847–48 he served as secretary of the American legation in St. Petersburg. Correspondence, diaries, biographical, and genealogical data, legal documents, speeches, accounts, and writings. Specific Russian-related items could not be ascertained. Researchers might examine his business correspondence for 1841–48 (box 13); general correspondence, 1847–49 (box 94), correspondence—letterbooks, 1845–48 (box 97), letters of introduction, 1844–47 (box 103); and correspondence with special persons (boxes 116, 122, and 133). Correspondents include Neil S. Brown, Cassius M. Clay, W. H. Hunt, and Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, all ministers to Russia, and Colin M. Ingersoll and Edward H. Wright, both secretaries of the Russian legation. The Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville processed and microfilmed these papers, retaining a complete copy of the microfilm for its own collections. Published register (Nashville, 1960). (NUCMC 62–553)
