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Description: 1 page; Everett (1794-1865), politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and mainly professor of Greek literature, studied (1815-19) in Europe, mainly Goettingen. Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831), son of the Orient Explorer Carsten N. (1733-1815), historian and statesman, served from 1816 as Prussian Ambassador to Rome.
Autographs of famous people on documents and letters received by E. R. and his family from 1822 to the 1870s. Includes those of J. Q. Adams, J. Calhoun, R. Conkling, E. Everett, General Lafayette, H. W. Longfellow, W. Seward, H. Schoolcraft, and Gerrit Smith.
K-3 1826, May 13 Letter of introduction for E. R. written on his behalf by Edward Everett to His Excellency, The Baron Niebuhr, Minister of his Prussian Majesty at Rome. Everett describes E. R. as "a gentleman, distinguished among the scholars of America for his philological attainments."