Manuscripts

Correspondence: D-P

Description: A collection of 454 items from 1840 to 1891, which contains personal and professional correspondence of Charles P. S. Wardwell. Correspondents include his wife Marcia P. Wardwell, brothers, parents, and other family members, friends and business associates. The letters discuss family matters, including personal, social, religious, and professional lives of various family members. Subjects also include political news; everyday life, primarily in New England; as well as Wardwell's various inventions and patents. Included are letters describing Page's Oar Factory at Coaticook, Quebec (1859); emigration; working conditions; wages; and social life of miners in California during the Gold Rush; the Civil War; and Freedmen. Also included is a diary of William H. Wardwell covering November 1855 to December 1856 and letters addressed to Marcia P. Wardwell from her sisters.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1840-1891.
Call number: mssWardwell

Family correspondence: Lizzie Farnum - P. W. Wardwell

Manuscripts

A collection of 454 items from 1840 to 1891, which contains personal and professional correspondence of Charles P. S. Wardwell. Correspondents include his wife Marcia P. Wardwell, brothers, parents, and other family members, friends and business associates. The letters discuss family matters, including personal, social, religious, and professional lives of various family members. Subjects also include political news; everyday life, primarily in New England; as well as Wardwell's various inventions and patents. Included are letters describing Page's Oar Factory at Coaticook, Quebec (1859); emigration; working conditions; wages; and social life of miners in California during the Gold Rush; the Civil War; and Freedmen. Also included is a diary of William H. Wardwell covering November 1855 to December 1856 and letters addressed to Marcia P. Wardwell from her sisters.

mssWardwell

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Correspondence: A-C

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mssWardwell

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Correspondence: R-Z; ephemera

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mssWardwell

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Charles P. S. Wardwell papers

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mssWardwell

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Family correspondence: S. H. Wardwell - William H. Wardwell

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D. P. McHarg correspondence

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The majority of the letters are written by D. P. McHarg to his mother. McHarg's first letter was written while he was on his voyage to California aboard the ship Grecian. In his letters from California, he discusses the conditions in the gold camps, the gold miners with whom he does business, the financial crisis of 1855 and the failing of the Adams Express Company, as well as his opinions about slavery and the Civil War. There are five letters written by McHarg to his wife Fannie while he was in New York City in 1873; in these letters he discusses the stock market crash of 1873. There is one letter by New York Senator Elihu Root to McHarg's wife Fannie.

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Correspondence: D-P

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