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Stewart, Daniel K., 1925-,. Papers of the Stewart family of the Virginia & Tennessee tobacco merchants [manuscript] 1829-41.

Title: Papers of the Stewart family of the Virginia & Tennessee tobacco merchants [manuscript] 1829-41.

The collection contains business correspondence of the family firm located in Richmond, Va. and Clarksville, Tenn., with connections in Petersburg, Va., Liverpool, New Orleans, and New York. The letters discuss the building of a tobacco factory in Clarksville, and the buying, processing and shipping of tobacco and the many factors influencing the business including weather, the national economy, the availabililty and health of labor and lengthy law suit. Of particular interest are letters that describe the widespread Panic of 1837 and the resulting failure of many firms. Letters of their travelling agents report on the difficulty of travel in the SW United States and describe life in New Orleans, New York City, and Lebanon, N.Y. where the writer observed the Shaker community. Family news is interspersed, and the collection also contains descriptive letters from a sister who remained in Scotland. Bills of lading, copies of various price letters, invoices and accounts complete the collection. Correspondents include Daniel K. Stewart, Bryce Stewart, John Stewart, David Dunlop, Norman Stewart, Charles Oxley, William Oxley, John Oxley, John Walker and the firms of Robert & Williams, New York, Brander, McKenna & Wright, New Orleans, and Brander, Murray, & Gallagher, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 900 items.

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