James Colles correspondence, 1801-1870, 1921.

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James Colles correspondence, 1801-1870, 1921.

Mimeograph copies of the family and business correspondence (940 letters) of James Colles, a New York merchant; edited by Henry Metcalfe, with preface, introduction, and a list of letters, 1921; in some cases letters are not direct copies, but paraphrases; business letters relate to Colles' affiliations with H.K. Toler & Co., New York (as a clerk), Ingersoll and Colles, Rogers and Colles, and to his tenure as a director of a branch of the Bank of the United States in New Orleans, Louisiana.

1 linear foot (2 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7609476

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Metcalfe, Henry, b. 1847

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H.K. Toler & Co.

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Colles, James, 1788-1883

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Bank of the United States

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Ingersoll and Colles

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Rogers and Colles

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