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Scope and Content Note
The papers of Henry William Ellsworth (1814-1864) span the years 1796-1886. The papers are primarily correspondence and duplicates of diplomatic dispatches received and sent while Ellsworth was chargé d'affaires for the United States in Stockholm, Sweden, and Norway, 1845-1849. Correspondents include George Bancroft, Friherre Jöns Jacob Berzelius, James Buchanan, Ellsworth family, Theodore S. Fay, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Gansevoort Melville, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, and Benjamin Silliman.