Cyrus Byington Papers, 1819-1868

Over 300 letters, mostly concerned with Cyrus Byington's family matters, contain news of weather, missions, and missionaries. In addition to the originals, there are transcripts made by Grant Foreman. These documents include a manuscript draft of Byington's Choctaw grammar, an 1870 published edition of the grammar and an 1852 edition of the English and Choctaw Definer.

There is a sixty-page transcript of an 1862-63 diary (original at Smithsonian), notes of Peter Hudson (Choctaw) on people and places in letters, a diary (47 pages), and a transcript of an 1846 report of Iyanubbi Female Seminary. The Byington papers have been microfilmed and there is a chronological calendar of the letters.

The notes by Peter Hudson were dictated to Grant Foreman's secretary in the 1930's.