Manuscripts

J. M. Seibert letterbook

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Description: The letterbook includes both personal and business correspondence of J. M. Seibert, the Wells, Fargo & Company general agent in Mexico City. Subjects discussed are: William Jennings Bryan, Edward Henry Harriman, John J. Valentine, and real estate, copper, gold, and silver mining, coffee plantations, and business schemes in Mexico. There are also detailed descriptions of Mexico, and more specifically, Mexico City. The majority of the letters deal with Seibert's personal investments and business dealings; although some of the discussion pertains to Wells, Fargo & Company's investments and real estate purchases
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1899-1902.
Call number: mssHM 63953
Creator: Seibert, J. M(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William Reese Company, April 28, 1997.

J. J. Abbott letter to J. P. Carpenter

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Letter, written by J. J. Abbott to his friend and fellow teacher in Alabama, J. P. Carpenter. Abbott describes his journey to Mississippi, the city of Hudsonville, the school at which he is working, some school clubs that he founded, and his intent to attend Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. Abbott also gives opinions about the South, slavery, and abolitionists.

mssHM 84005

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Valetine, J. J. (to M-Parsons, 1869-1883 May 20)

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The collection consists mainly of letters to and from Hosmer B. (Buckingham) Parsons (1846-1908), who joined Wells, Fargo & Company in 1867 and successively held the positions of cashier, assistant secretary, vice-president, and president of the company bank in New York. The papers deal chiefly with the express business: relationships with competing express companies such as American Express, Pacific Express, Northern Pacific Express, Texas Express, etc.; with railroad companies including Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company, Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company, and others; as well as matters of shipments, rates, and routes. There are also papers that relate to the personal business affairs of Hosmer B. Parsons.

mssWF

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J. A. Graves papers

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The collection consists of correspondence (including 23 letter books), 3 photographs, 2 scrapbooks, business documents, and financial ledgers related to the life and business activities of Jackson A. Graves. Subject matter includes banking and finance, and much of the business correspondence in the collection is with Isaias W. Hellman (1842-1920), president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Los Angeles from 1875 to 1920 and president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank in San Francisco from 1890 to 1920. The collection also contains land papers of the Los Angeles area (including materials related to Rancho San Pasqual) and papers of California law firms.

mssGraves

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Charles Lummis letters

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Sixteen of the seventeen letters are addressed to Charles Lummis. The authors include: Anthropologist Adolph Bandelier (written from Bolivia), writer Ella Higginson, historian and author J. Franklin Jameson (asking Lummis to write an article on Mexico), Lummis' second wife Eva, Henrietta Lungren (wife of Southwest artist Fernand Lungren), surgeon, ethnographer, and linguist Washington Matthews (about his book Navajo legends), author Grace Ellery Channing Stetson (and wife of artist Charles Stetson), Wells Fargo & Company president John J. Valentine (regarding U.S. politics), and stage actress Louise Wakelee Elliott. There is one letter by Charles Lummis to his wife Eve. This letter was written in 1896 while he was in Mexico.

mssHM 79080-79096

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Feramorz Little letterbook

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Bound letterbook containing copies of correspondence sent by Feramorz Little from 1863 to 1877. The correspondence focuses on business dealings (including references to the Union Pacific Railroad and Utah Southern Line) and accounts. Recipients include Brigham Young, George Q. Cannon, Joseph W. Young, and Parley P. Pratt. A September 23, 1865, letter sent from Salt Lake City notes "Our City Council has prohibited the sale of all liquor within the City limits."

mssHM 30694

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Letters to J.A. Graves: 1897 (J-Z), 1898 (A-Z)

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J. M. Seibert letterbook

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