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Language:English
Date:1830-1846
Contributor:Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866
Subject:Antiquities | Mounds | Portraits
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries
Extent:98 pages
Description: Diary excerpts. Original in Harvard College library. Records interview with follower of Braddock who reports that Washington advised taking Indian aid; reads manuscript introduction to McKenney's contemplated volumes of Indian portraits; finds Albert Gallatin "full of zeal" on collecting Indian languages (1830-1831). Meets with Ephraim G. Squier; suggests he look at additional western mounds (1846).
Collection:Selected papers, [ca. 1819-1863], relating to Benjamin Franklin (Mss.B.Sp25)