Found 2 collections related to Mendonc%CC%A7a,%20Salvador%20de,%201841-1913

Charles Ranlett Flint (1850-1934) was a financial capitalist, merchant and industrial consolidator. He entered the shipping business and worked for commission merchants in New York City. Popularly known as the "Father of Trusts", he was responsible for many industrial consolidations and mergers. Collection consists of correspondence, agreements, memoranda, minutes, commercial codes, financial statements, securities accounts, and patent and shipping papers which reflect Flint's multifarious and far-flung business activities in America, South America, Russia, and China. Included are papers relating to industrial mergers; rubber goods manufacturing on Long Island (N.Y.); the financing of the United States Rubber Company; the purchase and re-organization of the New York Times Company; the paving of the streets of Manaus, Brazil; a new submarine engine; proposals for railways between Guayaquil and Quito in Ecuador and between Alaska and Siberia; the supplying of munitions and cartridge belts to the Russian army; and the provision of loans to Russia and to China for railway development and to the Sultan of Turkey for the purchase of naval vessels. Also, correspondence of Flint as chairman of the American Committee for the Encouragement of Democratic Government in Russia. Personal miscellaneous papers include his receipts while travelling abroad, personal press clippings, photographs, and printed matter. less

J. A. Mac Kinnon could not be identified. · To Salvador de Mendonça, Brazilian diplomat : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Sep 1900 : (B'ANA 0770) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from New Westminster, British Columbia : begins, "Learning that your Excellency is interested in Byron mementoes, I beg to submit to your consideration a volume of his poems published by Galignani of Paris -- in English, unabridged. Affixed within the book is an autograph letter of great interest, written to Galignani ...." Mac Kinnon writes c/o [?B.] M. Marshall Esqr., New Westminster, P.O., British Columbia. less