Stephen Smith Collection

Résumé du livre

Correspondence, business accounts, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers. Includes business correspondence and a few accounts relating to Smith's activities as representative of Minturn & Champlin who traveled, often as a supercargo, to various ports in Europe and the Far East; miscellaneous business and family papers (ca. 1820-1859) including references to shipping salt and china trade porcelain; numerous school reports and essays by children, and family correspondence; and newspaper clippings reflecting family history. Correspondents include father Abraham Smith, brother Obediah (a ship master), and sister Mary O. Smith.