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- Creator
- De Forest & Company
- Call number
- MssCol 760
- Physical description
- .21 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- De Forest & Company letter book, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Letter book of De Forest & Company of New Orleans, Louisiana, containing correspondence related to mercantile trading. Chief correspondent is the firm of A. S. Chittenden in New York, and main subjects of correspondence are the trade in cotton textiles and merchandise for the Mexican market, also mentioning the effects of the Mexican War on trading. Included in the volume are copies of letters written in 1848 from Vera Cruz, Mexico, describing conditions there during the American invasion
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328
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