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Brewer, Gardner, 1806-1874. Brewer-Penniman family letters, 1804 Feb. 11-1895 June 16.

Title: Brewer-Penniman family letters, 1804 Feb. 11-1895 June 16.

A collection of letters written between three generations of the Brewer family, a merchant family of Salem and Boston. The bulk of the letters are addressed to Gardner Brewer, a wholesale commission merchant; some business correspondence is included. The family was a wealthy one, and letters recount details of trips to Europe and Cuba. Brewer's son, "Gardy," died accidentally in 1857 and there are many obituaries and letters of condolence. Brewer's eldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth, married into the Penniman family of New York in 1853. Letters from the Civil War period are absent. With "Genealogy and reminiscences of the Brewer family" by Gardner Brewer Penniman. Item-level inventory available.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (80 folders) ; 26 cm.

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Brewer, Gardner, 1806-1874. Letters: Boston, [Mass.], to [Lucia Gray] Alexander, 1864-1865.

Title: Letters: Boston, [Mass.], to [Lucia Gray] Alexander, 1864-1865.

Letters discuss the Civil War, presidential election of 1864, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, economic conditions and the price of gold.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27418245 View

Kittredge-Stone family correspondence 1824-1858 Kittredge-Stone family correspondence

Title: Kittredge-Stone family correspondence 1824-1858 Kittredge-Stone family correspondence

The Kittredge-Stone family correspondence is made up of 184 letters to John Theodore Kittredge of Framingham, Massachusetts; to his sister Ellen, also of Framingham; and to Ellen's husband, Dexter Stone of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The letters pertain to bereavement, finances, and family news from Framingham, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-4233.5kit?rgn=main;view=text View