Manuscripts
U.S. Custom papers regarding duty on imports from Antwerp
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John Elmsly invoice
Manuscripts
This invoice is for money owed to Graff by John Elmsly. It lists cabinetmaking material and supplies purchased from 1771 to 1773.
mssHM 68470
H1.1 - Heavy Duty Industrial Miscellaneous - Electro Magnet lifting scrap steel from pile for furnace
Visual Materials
H1.1 - Heavy Duty Industrial misc. - Electro Magnet [lifting scrap steel from pile for furnace] - Union Tool Co.
photCL SCE 02 - 11312
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Spanish document on the duties on imports and exports
Manuscripts
This manuscript is a collection of documents and transcriptions of receipts of proceeds from taxes and duties on imports and exports, collected by the Spanish government, in New Spain (Mexico), from 1560 to 1570. Someone named "de Cardenas," who is the "fiscal de Su majestad" (loosely translated as lawyer for the crown) is mentioned on the cover. The cover is loose. The manuscript has paper repairs and insect damage with some loss of text.
mssHM 83977
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Letterpress book of the Secretary of the Treasury
Manuscripts
Letterpress copybook containing telegrams sent and received by the Secretary of the Treasury between June 1, 1863 and Jan. 1, 1864. The correspondents include members of the military command, legislators, collectors of the customs of New York, San Francisco, and Portland (Me), the Treasury employees, lawyers, businessmen, etc. The telegrams concern duties, including those imposed on the sales of arms and supplies for the army, Southern cotton, and whiskey; regulations of the shipment of goods, including in the areas that are "within reach of the rebels" and Lincoln's ban on a sale of Prussian arms to Guatemala and shipment of livestock; revenue steamers; bids on government contracts; design and printing of fifty and hundred dollar denomination greenbacks and arrests of counterfeiters; appointments of collectors and other personnel issues. Also discussed are: the conflict over the Farralon Islands (San Francisco); Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg campaign (including a proposal to "form a company for city defense made up in part of revenue officers" of Philadelphia); draft riots in New York; the question of opening of the Mississippi for commercial shipping in the wake of the victory at Vicksburg; Lincoln's push for restoring legislative and judicial authority in Southern states under the Union control; providing arms for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, etc.
mssHM 71515
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William Young Empey Papers
Manuscripts
The bulk of the papers consist of account books, passenger lists, and receipts documenting William Young Empey's work in England and America as an agent of the Perpetual Emigration Fund (PEF) of the Mormon Church. There are also letters relating to Empey's service as a missionary in England and to his personal affairs in later life. Among these papers, which concentrate primarily upon the years 1853 and 1854, are lists of PEF passengers on emigrant vessels from Liverpool, bills of landing and receipts for the purchase and shipment of many goods to equip the emigrant parties, and receipts and promissory notes from the emigrants themselves for wagons and teams or supplies purchased for them by the PEF's agent. These various documents illuminate many phases of the emigration process and the Church's careful, business-like organization of all the details. Some notable items include William Empey's incomplete diary account of the pioneer expedition to the Salt Lake Valley and the operation of the North Platte ferry (HM 52586), Empey's account book including accounts kept for the PEF (HM 52587), an 1853 list of Danish Mormons who had provided money for the purchase of cattle, wagons and other material (HM 52599), lists of P. E. Fund passengers on board various ships sailing for the United States in 1854 (HM 52603, 52605-07 and 52610-11), and two letters from Samuel W. Richards to Empey discussing Mormon missionary work in Great Britain and emigration of the Saints to the United States (HM 52593 and 52597).
mssHM 52583-52617
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R.L. Douglass correspondence concerning business activities in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Manuscripts
This collection consists of 35 business letters. The bulk of the letters are written from Council Bluffs, Iowa Territory to Alexander Lopez, a businessman, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letters illustrate the difficulties of frontier business dealings, as Lopez is seeking to recover monies owed to him by merchants in Council Bluffs. The exchanges last over a decade from 1861-1872. In the first letter written on February 23, 1861 from Council Bluff, McBride and Bowen propose to trade their debt for stock in Council Bluffs & St. Joseph Railroad. McBride and Bowen clearly state they could not pay Lopez money. R.L. Douglass, the attorney representing the Lopez, writes "I have never felt myself at liberty to secure any thing but money in payment, yet Mess. McB & B seem possessed with the idea that they can pay with wild lands at high prices" (Mar. 5, 1861). Approximately three months later, payment has yet to be made by McBride and Bowen. Douglass writes to Lopez stating that McBride and Bowen have violated the agreement. "I am now well satisfied that they will never pay you one cent in cash" (May 27, 1861). Lopez finds the contents of Douglass' letter written on May 27, 1861 surprising because he was initially "favorably impressed towards him [McBride]" (June 4, 1861). A letter written on July 16, 1861 by S. Clinton to W.A. Drown reveals that the firm of McBride and Bowen paid $10,000 to "settle up their business" and creditors will now repossess the property owned by the firm "or do worse." In the same letter, the offer for railroad stock is on the table, which Lopez declines. Eventually, the matter ends up in court and Lopez settles for the only asset left in McBride's possession: stock. The remaining correspondence concerns Lopez's attempt to sell the stock and his payment of taxes owed on the lots. On the upside, Douglass reports in a letter written on March 4, 1867 that the railroad and lot stocks are improving and Lopez may realize his money out of them.
mssHM 81400-81434