TC-JAC, 9 Oct. MS: NLS Acc. 7864. Hitherto unpbd.

1. On two pieces of paper, once presumably attached to a letter, TC noted: “An American Squier [sic]! (end ofSeptr 1849)” and “Ephraim G. Squire, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Central America (Grenada &c)—H. and D. Cotheal N. York—Uncle, Merchant, Syracuse, has many Letters from O. Cromwell to ‘a Quartr Msr’ Squire, ancestor of his; Father a Clergyman in Albany. Two Letters now in E. [Elizabeth?] Crl's hand, Mr Roberts has seen” (MS: Bancroft Lib., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley). Ephraim George Squier (1821–88), son of the Rev. Joel Squier, Albany co., N.Y.; journalist in Albany, N.Y., Hartford, Conn., and Chillicothe, Ohio, 1842–48; pbd. studies of Mound Builders, 1848–49; U.S. chargé d'affaires to Cent. Amer. republics, 1849–50; pbd. works on Cent. Amer. antiquities, 1852–77; first pres. of Anthropological Inst. of N.Y., 1868. Henry and David Cotheal, N.Y. countinghouse. Uncle unidentified. E. G. Squier wrote from Nicaragua to the unidentified Roberts, 8 March 1850: “Your mention of the matter of Cromwell's letters to Mr. Carlyle was well enough, and I should be glad to give him all information possible respecting them at once, but I have not yet investigated the matter to my full satisfaction. There is something still behind. Just before leaving the States I got some hints of the documents touching Oliver … , still or lately existing among the descendants of Saml. Squire of Fairfield Ct., who, I take it, was 4th from Sam. the Auditor. … How much of ‘burnt bones’ as Carlyle calls it may be contained in these the Lord only knows, for I have no doubt they are scattered from Maine to California. I shall try to get all the information possible … upon my projected trip home in June, & shall take pleasure in communicating all that turns out of any importance to Mr. Carlyle. Please signify as much to him on my behalf” (MS: Bancroft Lib., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley).