Invitation of the "Misses Eads" to a party at their home on Compton Hill. Envelope is addressed to Mr. Delany. Accompanying card states, "Thought you would enjoy seeing the enclosed—Think of it, way back in 1867—Your Mother, Wallace, must have been a debutante then, & how lovely she must have been. –M.T.W." Accompanying letter signed W.E. McHenry [Wallace E. McHenry], St. Louis, to Mr. van Ravenswaay, February 2, 1955: "This is an invitation sent to Dr. John Delany who lived at 2900 Lafayette Ave. then, to party given at the Eads Home at 1613 South Compton Ave. in honor of his daughter Eliza Ann Eads afterwards wife of James F. How. My mother was just 11 months younger and of course was at that same party she was Josephine Eads.", 1867 Jan 24
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- 1867 Jan 24
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Extent
From the Collection: 0.9 Cubic Feet ( (2 boxes; 1 oversize folder))
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center Repository