Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Photocopy of letter signed E.A. Hitchcock, St. Louis, to Mother, Mrs. L.C. Hitchcock. I wrote to you from this place a few weeks ago after hearing of Henry’s failure. My further reflections on the subject of the failures in the country have not changed my mind. They will restore the country to its proper state, which has been abominably deranged. Have no uneasiness about the condition of things. Your children are all in the middle – the prime of life, with a fair share of education and are all temperate. I am the most worthless of the three and yet I see a thousand things I could do if my commission were taken away from me. The money difficulties have not yet touched the merchants of this place, but the day of general failure is close at hand. Discussion of practice of merchants here to buy in New York or other Eastern cities – extension of their notes etc. Most of the eastern merchants have failed and notes here must be paid. The Government will be compelled to charge a national bank. I see the public deposits in Mississippi are refused on a Treasury draft. (acc. no. 70-0017), 1837 May 15
Item — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains family and business papers, estate papers, passports, and deeds of the families of Lemon Parker, William Russell, and James Russell (St. Louis, Washington County, and Franklin County, Mo.). Included are a travel journal of Lemon Parker, Sr.; land records from Howard County, Mo.; records relating to the firm of Ward & Parker and to the Galena Mining Company; and reminiscences of Anne Clendennin Russell (wife of Silas Bent Russell, son of Russella Russell Parker’s...
Dates:
1837 May 15