Modern Manuscripts & Archives at the Newberry

Correspondence about business, legal, and real estate matters. Includes also contracts, account statements, tax papers, bills, receipts, and some requests for political endorsement. Interesting letters on land values, transactions with Illinois banks, furnishing lumber and rafting it to Oquawka, stages of the Mississippi River, and political matters can also be found in these papers.

Contains bank and business correspondence, including statements of accounts. Among these are letters from early bankers, business houses, and commission merchants such as Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.; Field, Leiter & Co.; Union National Bank; First National Bank; Continental National Bank; Deering Harvester Company; and Commonwealth Electric Company.

Correspondence about business, legal, and real estate matters. Includes also contracts, account statements, tax papers, bills, receipts, and some requests for political endorsement. Interesting letters on land values, transactions with Illinois banks, furnishing lumber and rafting it to Oquawka, stages of the Mississippi River, and political matters can also be found in these papers.

Contains contracts for corn, beef, pork, and hogs, as well as certificates of inspection and weight, plus letters from the Union Stock Yard National Bank and pioneer commission merchants such as Blair and Blair.

Contains bank and business correspondence, including statements of accounts. Among these are letters from early bankers, business houses, and commission merchants such as Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.; Field, Leiter & Co.; Union National Bank; First National Bank; Continental National Bank; Deering Harvester Company; and Commonwealth Electric Company.

Includes examiners' reports, on printed forms, of purchaser, family, and improvements with recommendations of examiner about continuing delinquent, cancelled contracts, and letters of explanation from delinquents, attorneys, etc . These contracts are foldered individually by contract number with name of purchaser and town or county of land in question.

Includes examiners' reports, on printed forms, of purchaser, family, and improvements with recommendations of examiner about continuing delinquent, cancelled contracts, and letters of explanation from delinquents, attorneys, etc . These contracts are foldered individually by contract number with name of purchaser and town or county of land in question.

Includes examiners' reports, on printed forms, of purchaser, family, and improvements with recommendations of examiner about continuing delinquent, cancelled contracts, and letters of explanation from delinquents, attorneys, etc . These contracts are foldered individually by contract number with name of purchaser and town or county of land in question.

Agreements with companies regarding telegraph and express services, steel and locomotive purchases, and a variety of other arrangements and leases. Also includes contracts and correspondence with the Pullman Company for sleeping and drawing room cars.

Includes examiners' reports, on printed forms, of purchaser, family, and improvements with recommendations of examiner about continuing delinquent, cancelled contracts, and letters of explanation from delinquents, attorneys, etc . These contracts are foldered individually by contract number with name of purchaser and town or county of land in question.

Includes examiners' reports, on printed forms, of purchaser, family, and improvements with recommendations of examiner about continuing delinquent, cancelled contracts, and letters of explanation from delinquents, attorneys, etc . These contracts are foldered individually by contract number with name of purchaser and town or county of land in question.

Includes examiners' reports, on printed forms, of purchaser, family, and improvements with recommendations of examiner about continuing delinquent, cancelled contracts, and letters of explanation from delinquents, attorneys, etc . These contracts are foldered individually by contract number with name of purchaser and town or county of land in question.

About 300 letters and papers concerning claims against Mr. Beiyon as Land Agent, in alleged instances of fraud and concerning attempts to locate and arrest him to stand trial in Ishpeming, Michigan, for alleged defrauding of land purchasers. Included are a few pieces of advertising matter issued by Mr. Beiyon to encourage sales of Nebraska lands. Some of the letters are in Swedish.

Agreements with companies regarding telegraph and express services, steel and locomotive purchases, and a variety of other arrangements and leases. Also includes contracts and correspondence with the Pullman Company for sleeping and drawing room cars.