Letter book, 1852-1857.

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B. & W. Hudson. Letter book, 1852-1857.

Letter book, 1852-1857.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568464

This volume contains copies of the business correspondence of B. & W. Hudson company of Hartford, CT between 1852-1857. Contents of the letters reveal that the Hudsons primarily sold bedding, furniture, carpets, and refrigerators. Most letters from B. & W. Hudson are requests for purchases of items from manufacturers or dealers. Some give shipping instructions, payment information, or claims for damaged goods. Most of the dealers and manufacturers doing business with B. & W. Hudson were located in New England or New York. Such Massachusetts furniture makers as A. H. Brick of Gardner and Buckley and Bancroft of Boston are frequently noted, while dealers of other goods like A. Mellen and Co., D.K. Hall, Phelps and Kingman, and William Branch were from New York. The most frequently mentioned items are mattresses (hair, birch, feather, husk, or cotton and palm leaf), feathers (Russian or goose), Grecian chairs, cots, sofa beds, and bedsteads, mirrors, breakfast tables, washstands, refrigerators, carpets, blinds, card tables, and extension tables. Detailed descriptions including size, quantity, price, and color of each item are mentioned in the requests to purchase.

1 v. (approx. 270 p.) ; 34 cm.

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