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American Dredging Company Incoming Correspondence

Description: This incoming correspondence deals mostly with the company's work on the Dutch Gap on the James River Improvement Project in Virginia, their work with the U.S. Engineer's Office on the Philadelphia Navy Yard at League Island, and their work with the Coosaw Mining Company in Charleston, South Carolina. The correspondence also deals with several other projects. Most of the correspondence is written to Somers and Colton. Correspondents include: William P. Craighill, William Ludlow, Franklin C. Prindle, Robert Ransom, Andrew Adger, David Lopez, Benjamin Maillefert, and Grantham Israel Taggart, Sr. (list is not exhaustive).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1870-1881
Call number: mssAmericanDredgingcorrespondence
Creator: American Dredging Company

American Dredging Company incoming correspondence

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This incoming correspondence deals mostly with the company's work on the Dutch Gap on the James River Improvement Project in Virginia, their work with the U.S. Engineer's Office on the Philadelphia Navy Yard at League Island, and their work with the Coosaw Mining Company in Charleston, South Carolina. The correspondence also deals with several other projects. Most of the correspondence is written to Somers and Colton. Correspondents include: William P. Craighill, William Ludlow, Franklin C. Prindle, Robert Ransom, Andrew Adger, David Lopez, Benjamin Maillefert, and Grantham Israel Taggart, Sr. (list is not exhaustive). The correspondence had previously been bound together (now separated). There is some water damage to the letters; some letters are stuck together. Fragile condition.

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Incoming personal correspondence of S.A. Shepperd

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The collection consists of a variety of stock certificates, notarized mining documents, meeting minutes and resolutions, a returns ledger, business correspondence relating to the daily business of the company, a certificate of widowhood from the Fraternal Order of Masons, and two pieces of personal correspondence relating to S.A. Shepperd's military service. They give a good picture of the operation of a small-time mining venture and the holdings of a Denver businessman (Shepperd) during the Colorado mining boom years. Shepperd's correspondence with miners and other capitalists, as well as the documents relating to his business deals with mining companies in Nevada and New Mexico, attest to the networks of capital that linked Colorado silver mining to other mining boom districts and other industries. Many of Shepperd's documents are penned on the letterhead of the Denver & Rio Grande/Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe Railroad, much of which includes promotional copy advertising the railroad's tourist routes.

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Incoming business correspondence of S.A. Shepperd

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Incoming correspondence

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60 letters on topics including the disastrous fire in Westminster Abbey (May 12 letter from Geoffrey Houghton-Brown) with a follow-up letter from Lord Esher suggesting a course of action; correspondence with Alderman J. B. Morrell of York (which led to Esdaile's work on Yorkshire monuments); an invitation to write articles on "monumental effigies" of Berkshire in Archaeological Society's Journal; and the destruction of the Temple Church and adjacent buildings.

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Incoming correspondence

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55 letters on topics including tea with the French Ambassador; an article from British Medical Journal about Esdaile's discovery of 2 Roubiliac terra-cottas in the Royal College of Surgeons; "Fan Mail" on the Roubiliac book; a letter (of July 17, 1931) from a couple applying for servants' positions with family; Esdaile's work on 'Old Church Monuments' (comments on draft); more work for the Italian Embassy. Proposal from Societies of Inner Temple & Middle Temple to evaluate "sepulchral monuments and mural tablets" into a "Catalogue Raisonne'"; and articles in The Times.

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Incoming correspondence

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35 letters on topics including the award of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to Esdaile to work on the dictionary of British sculptors (May 10); letter of thanks from the Royal Academy of Arts for assistance with the 1938 exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe; a booklet on Lancing College; work on the Shell Guide to Oxfordshire (September 19 letter of thanks from Poet Laureate John Betjeman); the publication of a booklet on Tong Church; and a piece published in Country Life.

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