Papers, 1736-1929, 10.5 linear ft. Includes papers of Henry Middleton (1771–1846), minister plenipotentiary to Russia 1820–30, and of his son, Williams Middleton (1809–1883), attache of the American legation in St. Petersburg during his father's service there. Russian-related items, probably in the hand of Williams, include: 6 pp., handwritten, n.d., about the Decembrist revolt, serfs and nobles, Nicholas I's respect for serfs, Nicholas's behavior to the insurgents, Mr. Nerischen's (Naryshkin?) horn band, Nicholas's temper and temperament, and the city of St. Petersburg, built on ice; "Memoirs of a Russian Court II" (skating on the Neva, no aid given to fallen or drowning people), n.d., 2 pp.; Easter customs and marriage rites, n.d., 2 pp.; incomplete, on Russian life, Laplanders, and the midnight sun, n.d., 1 p.; Russian marriages, 22 December 1877, 1 p.; another incomplete, on the same subject, n.d., 1 p.; and (incomplete) "Memoirs of a Russian Court," n.d., 6 pp., typed + 12 pp., handwritten. Finding aid available: http://schistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Middleton-Family-Papers-1168.00.pdf
