Papers, 1848–49, 7 items. U.S. minister to Russia. Letters to his wife in the United States, 17 June 1848–14 May 1849. Beginning with his stopover in London on the way to Russia, the letters concern his diplomatic mission and various aspects of Russian life, including accommodations, the nobility and peasants, weather and snow removal, Count K. R. Nesselrode, architecture, Russian political and military aspirations, moral depravity and crime, religion, Moscow, and the underground telegraph "by which the Emperor communicates with his ministers."
