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Box W0098.01

 Container

Contains 3 Collections and/or Records:

Enoch Silsby correspondence, 1821-1824

 File — Box: W0098.01, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains eighteen letters related to business in Mobile, Alabama, written from 1821 to 1838. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence sent to Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, northern merchants with legal and financial interests in Mobile. Six letters addressed to Rhode Island merchant William R. Bowers are dated between December 1833 and February 1838. The letters relay news related to Bowers's shipping business, telling him what to ship to Mobile...
Dates: 1821-1838

William R. Bowers correspondence, 1833-1838

 File — Box: W0098.01, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains eighteen letters related to business in Mobile, Alabama, written from 1821 to 1838. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence sent to Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, northern merchants with legal and financial interests in Mobile. Six letters addressed to Rhode Island merchant William R. Bowers are dated between December 1833 and February 1838. The letters relay news related to Bowers's shipping business, telling him what to ship to Mobile...
Dates: 1821-1838

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1822,1839

 File — Box: W0098.01, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains eighteen letters related to business in Mobile, Alabama, written from 1821 to 1838. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence sent to Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, northern merchants with legal and financial interests in Mobile. Six letters addressed to Rhode Island merchant William R. Bowers are dated between December 1833 and February 1838. The letters relay news related to Bowers's shipping business, telling him what to ship to Mobile...
Dates: 1821-1838