Box Multi-Collection Box

Scope and Contents

The collection includes business records including correspondence, receipts for payments and insurance policies. The records related primarily to the Hope Valley Manufacturing Co., but also include documents relating to Aldrich’s purchase of the Plainville Mill in 1874.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a single bound volume titled “Letter Book, No. 2, Commenced [illegible] 1796”. The volume contains copies of business correspondence from June 6, 1794 - Dec. 29. 1826 consisting of letters from Thomas Arnold to various business associates. The bulk of the correspondence relates to shipments of agricultural trade along the East Coast and the market for assorted trade goods including wheat, hemp, lime, cheese, barley, flour, indigo, and coffee.Some of...

Scope and Contents

Included is a priced trade catalog of Marshall, Brown and Co. and letter from Brown to G. and C. Merriam dated 3 September 1834. The trade list includes the works offered by Marshall, Brown and Co including children’s books, school books and miscellaneous books. Brown’s letter refers to book exchanges and includes criticism of the practice of “trade sales”.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a letter from Tristam Burges to John DeWolf in Bristol, R.I. concerning the extension of road service from Fall River to Newport and it’s possible impact on the steamship lines.Included with the letter are three pieces of ephemera related to transportation of trade in Rhode Island in the 19th century. These materials include a Bill of lading from Commercial Steamboat Company for F. H. Perry, Feb. 7, 1865, for a chest of tea; Bill of lading for James...

Scope and Contents A commonplace book is a compendium of knowledge, often copied from other sources, collected by an individual based upon their own particular interests. Benjamin H. Cook’s commonplace book includes poems, hymns, Scripture, sermon topics, and a recipe. Regular themes include maritime life, mourning, pride and frugality. Additionally included are transcriptions of gravestone inscriptions, listings of the family members of the Augustus Durfee family of Wakefield, R.I. and the George W. Esten...

Scope and Contents

Collection includes 12 letters. Includes correspondence to daughter Maude from her parents, Albert and Charlotte, and her sister Lottie during a tour of Europe. Also includes several letters from J.H. Coggeshall to Albert Dailey relating business matters.

Scope and Contents

Bulk of letters are from William Francis Darrah to his brother Rufus E. Darrah (1861-1916 ), a physician of Newport, during William’s time aboard the USS Kearsage and describe his travels in ports of interest.

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence to Helen Fitts, resident of Providence, Rhode Island from family and friends serving within the U.S. Army during World War 1 including Arthur Leroy Bolton, Ernest Jamieson, Fred E. Stockwell, and H. Wallace Burton.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes fifteen manuscript documents relating to planning President Andrew Jackson’s visit to Providence on June 21-22, 1833. The records include correspondence between members of the Committee for the Reception of the President and Providence Mayor Samuel W. Bridgham as well as planning and logistical documents related to transport, participating dignitaries, procession and introductions.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes letters from family members to Joseph Ellwood Macomber from 1842-1867. The letters are primarily updates about friends and family matters, but several also contain references to abolitionist and temperance movements.