Francis Porteus Corbin papers 1716-1899 1789-1884

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Francis Porteus Corbin papers 1716-1899 1789-1884

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/671

Francis Porteus Corbin (1801-1876) was an American businessman of Philadelphia and Paris. He owned property in Georgia and Louisiana and was interested in political affairs in the U.S. and Europe. Collection consists of Corbin's correspondence, financial and legal papers, and printed matter. Personal and financial correspondence concerns politics, presidential candidates and political parties, ca. 1840-1870; management of Corbin's plantations in Georgia and Louisiana; Civil War matters such as secession, abolitionists, antislavery party, Charleston, S.C., at the outbreak of the war, the Confederacy, and Reconstruction; and references to notable people of the day in Europe and the United States. Also, family correspondence, letters of introduction, commissions to buy household and other goods in Paris for Americans, and papers dating back to 1716, relating to the estate of James Hamilton.

3 linear feet (7 boxes)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6314328

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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