Letterbooks, 1884-1905.

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Letterbooks, 1884-1905.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568256

Consists of copies of personal and official correspondence sent by Maxwell between 1884 and 1905. Volume 1 covers this entire period. It contains remarks on western topography; real estate he owned near Puget Sound; work for the Union Pacific Railway Company; railroads in Peru; an economic depression in the 1890s that put him out of work for at least three years; and applications for positions with a number of different railways. Some letters are addressed to Charles Francis Adams.

2 v. ; 31 cm.

Winterthur Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6768251

Winterthur Library

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