About 150 items.
Folder 1
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About a shipment of flax seed for Christopher Ellery.
About Captain Taggart's cargo.
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Folder 2
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About the collection of payments owed by John South.
About the transfer of money for partial settlement of a claim.
About claims. Mentioned are members of the firms F. & R. Voss and F. & R.
Voss & Co., and the fact that "Mr. Taliaferro went home in
the Rapph on Saturday."
About the collection of an overdue payment. They wrote: "Probably you can arrange with Mr. C. to pay without suit if not please sue. Geo. S.
& R. Norris Jr., comprise our firm."
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Folder 3
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About orders for leeches, imported spirits and other imports.
About a merchandise account.
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Folder 4
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About concerning cotton sales.
About concerning the writer's mistake in leaving Mobile, a shipment of lumber to Texas,
and shipping connected with business matters. He mentioned Corpus Christi, Tex., family
and
personal matters, a cargo of porter, the weather, and business associates.
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Folder 5
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They all are related to the cotton trade. The first three are from S. C. Dunning in
Savannah and are 15 and 21 December 1838 and 17 October 1839. The letter of 4 June
1842 is
from Jonathan Meigs in Augusta, Ga.; of 2 January 1843 from A. Richards Jr.; of 8
March 1843
from Thomas Alexander at Savannah, Ga.; of 17 May 1843 from S. Matison at Savannah,
Ga.; and
1 March 1844 again from Johnathan Meigs.
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Folder 6
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About regarding merchandise sales and purchases.
About the sale of cotton, prices, and weather conditions.
About important banking matters involving New York and New Orleans banks.
About the excellent cotton crop conditions in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama,
estimating a crop of 2.4 million bales, with prices, comments about sugar crops, trade,
and
sterling exchange rates.
About the sugar trade.
About business troubles, and the cotton trade.
About details of cotton trading, mentioning the ships
Republic and
Mobile, and musing that the California
fever was "now over," dimming prospects for cotton
sales.
About an account balance.
About a journal subscription, business matters, and the weather.
About the sterling exchange and matters of account.
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Folder 7
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About cotton sales, invoices, and the dull market. Of the latter, Carswell commented:
"business here is at a standstill."
About Walker's temporary inability to pay an account due.
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Folder 8
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About steel prices and a shipment of steel.
About account balances and a remittance for payment.
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Folder 9
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About cotton sales in Savannah and market purchases.
About a cash receipt and the price of corn and corn meal.
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Folder 10
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About the sale of Grant's merchandise
About sales of merchandise, with a "sketch of sales for
acct."
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Folder 11
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About cotton sales.
About cotton sales; there is mention of news received by telegraph.
About cotton sales.
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Folder 12
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About bagging, coffee, molasses, the cotton trade, prices, and similar matters.
About cotton sales.
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Folder 13
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About a shipment of tobacco.
About the sale of "Twist" tobacco, and including the following observation: "Our Southern and Western customers who during the month of July came
'like Angels' visits,' are now beginning to show
themselves in earnest, and the cry in their mouths is always
bright
Tobacco
."
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Folder 14
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About the partial payment of a debt and mentioning his tobacco crop.
About payments of bills, veiled references to business or legal matters, and an
appointment to meet the president. Also mentioned is "Floyd." (President James Buchanan's cabinet included, since 8 March 1857, Secretary
of War John B. Floyd, former governor of Virginia.) London made the following comment
about
his stay in Washington: "The weather is cold and unpleasant here
and certainly not comfortable."
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Folder 15
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About a telegram sent by Motz & Boehm, and prospects for shipping tobacco.
About a shipment to Philadelphia of "Rose Bud" via the
steamer
Virginia; further shipments and related tobacco
business matters are also mentioned.
About a "Rose Bud" shipment conveyed by the ship
City of Richmond.
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Folder 16
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About a recommendation for Thatcher, "Whittler and Pattern
Maker."
About the advisability of filing a patent application in Canada for his invention
which is
not described.
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Folder 17
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About shipments of goods. Isaacs mentioned captains Bryan and Goodman, Philadelphia,
Pa., a
health relapse, and notice that "Rum is in great Dem'd here ... W.
Ind. .25/ ... Engl. 22/6 pr. gall."
About "drawing 3,000 Continental dollars in favor of Capt.
Constant Churchill and in favor of Capt. Benjamin Bates for $10,000 which bill I beg
you
will countenance ... ." Bule also mentioned recommending Vernon and Brown to New Bern
merchants, the possibility of shipping naval stores to Boston in the spring of 1781,
and also
a Mr. John Cooke.
About papers "which in any manner related to the claims of the
Heirs of Charles Churchill for Spanish spoliating ... ."
About the collection of money in connection with an estate.
About the collection of money on behalf of Stephen North of Philadelphia, Pa., from
Satterwhite & Travis.
About the recipient's disappointment with a shipment of cotton, additional freight
assigned
to the schooner
Argo, and cotton for the vessel
Damon; a bill of charge for shipping cotton to New York on the brig
Arethasa is attached.
About passage from St. Thomas, severe weather, lumber, shingles, response to inquiries
about a person named Grimes working in Bladen County, N.C., and Joel Davidson.
About accepting "with pleasure" the transference of
Maryland notes; Baltimore banks also mentioned.
About a business matter.
About cargo on ships
Saratoga,
Alabama,
Jn. Linton,
Talma, and
Oceana, and voicing dissatisfaction with
the
Oceana's cargo of Holland gin because of its yellowish
color; satisfaction with a "judicious" selection of cheese;
and requesting candles, black pepper, nutmeg, foolscap uncut paper, and almonds.
About an order for carriages and a harness.
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Folder 18
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About the shipment of marrow in casks sealed with tar (plaster of paris as a sealer
is
mentioned) and barrels of tallow.
About the transfer of payments, orders, leather goods, and prices.
About the sale of stock.
About banking arrangements.
About a bank note on "the Leather Manufacturers the Bank of
N.Y." Included is a comment that "myrh is rather too
high."
The first letter is about the favorable market, a sale of cotton and payment in notes
of
the Vicksburg Waterworks & Banking Co.; the second is about details of money
exchange.
About the collection of debts.
About their legal case in the Court of Appeals. Evans mentioned someone named McLane
and a
compromise proposal. (May refer to Louis McLane, 1786-1857, who served as president
of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company from 1837 to 1847).
About the shipment of tobacco.
About the cotton market, etc. (See also Unit 4.)
About settling accounts and ordering bagging for David McCoy.
About a cargo of salt on the brig
Pandora.
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Folder 19
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About prospective changes in the board of directors of the Western Bank, on which
Jones was
serving as president.
About the dire need for Nable to pay him a debt owed, and the hardships caused by
lack of
payment.
About the "Super Royal
Washington
Press
" (machinery) being sold in Baltimore.
About a protested draft.
About supplying ordering information about paper on which to print the
Daily Dime, of which he was a prospective owner; Mr. Halbrook of the
New Orleans
Picayune is mentioned.
About placing creditors' notices in the
Carrollonian and
Democrat.
About a credit: "... we credit your amount of $1365.11 in a
treasury draft on this Bank rec'd with your favor of the 19th instant... ."
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Folder 20
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Mostly about the bright prospects for a new company using Mr. Broadmeadow's patent
for the
manufacture of steel, soliciting capital investment.
About a protested draft.
About the sale of Grant's merchandise.
About payment by draft of $207, and "$71,18 3/4 cts in
Cash."
About a debt owed by Wilson P. Harrison; endorsed by Thomas Biddle, 16 September 1845.
About a financial and legal claim, including the following statement: "the old man ... will be worth from $125,000 to $150,000... ."
About a claim against W. Patton Miller.
About a shipment of rice.
About suggested rent being too expensive.
About transcripts for Messrs. A. J. Dennestown & Co. of New Orleans, La., of
1837-1838 payments drawn against the Branden Bank.
About the price of flour and wheat crops.
About looms and other machinery for mills.
About financial matters, mentioning family matters, and plans to leave for Alabama
later in
the month.
About receipts for merchandise shipped, including shipping and toll costs.
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Folder 21
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About methods to compel J. L. Dobyns to pay off his debt, including the suggested
mortgaging of 40 slaves. Cochran also commented that the Mississippi River was high,
that
nearby riparian Louisiana plantations were flooded, and that the area's prospects
for cotton
were "exceedingly gloomy and disheartening."
About business matters, the weather, and the good outlook for cotton.
About a three month subscription to the New Orleans weekly prices current be directed
to
Hannibal, Mo., and inquiring about bagging and rope information.
About a shipment of wool; fish; flour; and a receipt for turpentine, port wine, glass,
herrings, and shad.
About the need to pay back a loan related to a work enterprise.
About a shipment of metal for Charles Collier.
About mining and other business matters. Humprhey's in the 3-page letter mentioned
his
endeavor to construct "the Largest mill house at the Wycoff gold
mine that is in the state," news of that, the Liberty mines, and other property in the
area, explorations and machinery (Gardeners Crushers), and related matters. There
is also a
brief list of small articles sold for the recipient.
About drawing money from an estate account.
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Folder 22
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A deed for sale of land comprising "163 acres & 19
poles."
A report of rent and apparent sharecropper payments collected during the foregoing
week.
The fact that the price being paid for cotton is low is noted.
About the beneficial qualities of their fountain drink, Koca-Nola, "the only Koca drink on the market that is absolutely free from dope or
injurious ingredients of any kind," and soliciting an order for it.
About arrangements for delivery of wagons and parts and enclosing a two-page price
list for
these items.
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Folder 23
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About 50 letters from 1845 to 1861, including equipment orders and accounts.
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