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Summary:Lawyer, scholar diplomat and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1844-49). Correspondence (mostly incoming), diaries, notebooks relating to service as U.S. Minister to Turkey (1849-54) and Italy (1860-82) as well as scholarly activities in the fields of linguistics, literature, geography and ecology. Notable correspondents include: Spencer Baird, George Bancroft, Frederick Billings, Rufus Choate, Henry Clay, Guiseppe Garibaldi, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Henry, Charles C. Jewett, Justin S. Morrill, Hiram Powers, and Charles C. Rafn