1 box. Correspondence, diary, deeds, miscellaneous legal documents, clippings, and other papers, relating to family affairs, travels in France, China, and other countries, activities as a merchant employed by kinsman Samuel Hurd Walley, of Boston, Mass., and commercial affairs of Hurd & Sewall; papers of Hurd's son, John Codman Hurd (1816-1892), including reviews of his book on slavery entitled The Law of Freedom and Bondage (1858); and papers of other family members. Includes letters (1813-1814) to Hurd's niece from Russia pertaining to Napoleon's invasion; notes and clippings relating to international law; and letters to John Codman Hurd from Francis Lieber of Columbia University (1856-1868) and from Hungary (1867-1870) describing travel in that country and containing information on Agostin Haraszthy.
