Letter signed G.V. Fox [Gustavus V. Fox], Lowell, Massachusetts, to James B. Eads. Discusses efforts Eads has put toward bridge, including "Captain Erickson vs. Eads" and staff fight. Also discusses finances: contributing money to bronze part of bridge, mortgages, and the gold market's influence on western railroads. Letter is written on letterhead of the Office of the Middlesex Company., 1870 Mar 10

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7

Staff Only

Letter signed G.V. Fox, Office of the Middlesex Company, Lowell, to J.B. Eads, March 10, 1870

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates in the Tunnel Railroad of St. Louis and the St. Louis Bridge Company; invitations to the opening of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge; promissory notes; Eads' scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1881) relating to his plan to build a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; and papers relating to the genealogy of the McHenry family.