Edward L. Wells & Company ledger, 1874.

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Edward L. Wells & Company ledger, 1874.

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"Ledger ELW & Co. 1874" contains records of payments and receipts for cotton, real estate, and accounts pertaining to other commercial enterprises of Edward L. Wells & Company. Accounts include Beach Hill No. 1 & 2, brokerage No. 1 (Sav.) and No. 2 (Genl.), charges (including bills paid for drayage, shipping, insurance, putting up samples, and brokerage), cotton accounts (containing a list of the names of companies and individuals to whom checks have been written), and cotton. Additional accounts include an exchange account (listing a payment to Charleston account) and an expense account (including amounts paid for office rent, telegrams, letters, petty cash, R. T[ilghman] S[mith] fees to cotton, wood, "morning news," and stationery; and amounts received from petty cash, the sale of "cotton tops," and L[esesne] & W[ells]). Other accounts include the house account of R.T. Smith (which includes expenses paid for groceries, crockery, coal, petty cash, and Mrs. Lee for room; and income from Beach Hill and L[esesne] & W[ells]) and the account of Lesesne & Wells. The account of Alex McNeil (ship) includes money paid out for U.S. Court, the Custom House, and the British Consul, as well as money received from L & Wells. Additional accounts include petty cash, sterling exchange, and R. Tilghman Smith (checks written for King Street taxes).

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Smith, R.T.

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R.T. Smith is poet-in-residence at Auburn University. From the description of Papers, 1970-1994. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 32452312 Rodney T. Smith was born in Washington, D.C. on April 13, 1947 and grew up in Georgia and North Carolina. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and graduated from UNC Charlotte (B.A., Philosophy, 1970) and Appalachian State University (M.A., English, 1976). Smith served as a professor of English and Alumni W...

Lesesne & Wells (Charleston, S.C.)

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Alex McNeil (Ship)

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Edward L. Wells & Company (Charleston, S.C.)

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Resident of New York. Edward L. Wells was a partner with D.E. Huger Smith in Lesesne & Wells, general commission merchants, 10 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina. From the description of Edward L. Wells & Company ledger, 1874. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 31737572 ...