Box 4217.001

Content Description From the Collection: The collection mostly consists of incoming business correspondence written to Henry Major from various business associates in the United Kingdom and America. Some letters are written to other people, most likely various business partners and friends. The correspondence allows a look into the mercantile world of overseas trading of cotton and other goods, prices, and other related issues. Of particular interest is a January 1828 letter from Daniel Crawford of Mobile, Alabama, to Mary [Passage]...