Letter signed Jas. B. Eads, office of South Pass Jetty Works, New Orleans, to F.E. Sickles, New York. ". . . . I am anxious to go on with my suit against the New York Bridge Co. . . . We commenced work at the Mouth of the Mississippi a few days ago. The first dwelling house was coupled yesterday. A force of about 150 men are at work, building wharfs &c. &c. We will begin the construction of the jetties within a week" [accession number: 75-0035]., 1875 June 18

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9

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Letter signed Jas. B. Eads [James B. Eads], New Orleans, to F.E. Sickels, June 18, 1875

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.