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Summary Information
Robert Eliot and Norman Emmons Papers 1840-1882
- Emmons, Norman
- Eliot, Robert
Milwaukee Mss EV
0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Business and personal correspondence of Emmons, a Milwaukee attorney and railroad executive, including correspondence relating to Indian claims at Mackinac, Michigan; letters from New York investor Russell Sage about his Wisconsin business affairs; and several Civil War letters. Also present is correspondence of Emmons' brother-in-law, Robert Eliot, concerning family matters; an 1852 letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Theodore Parker concerning the inscription on the Concord bridge; an 1854 letter of appointment to the rank of lieutenant from Commander Matthew C. Perry to Garret V. Denniston; and an account book, 1855-1858, from Eliot's business as an iron and produce commission merchant. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil000ev
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