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Guide to the Hitchcock Family Papers 1834-1876

Descriptive Summary

Title:	Hitchcock Family. Papers
Dates:	1834-1876
Size:	0.25 feet (1 box)
Repository:	Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.
Abstract:	This collection is made up of the correspondence, business papers, and assorted miscellany of Dexter and Sheldon Hitchcock, and their families between 1834 and 1878. Of interest to the economic historian will be the shipping receipts and bills of lading in the business papers of Dexter Hitchcock, 1834-1835, and the various personal account books for the post Civil War period in Folder 6. There are also two interesting letters dealing with western lands in the correspondence of Sheldon Hitchcock, and a group of letters written by soldiers in the Union Army to family and friends in Aurora, Illinois.

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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Hitchcock Family. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

Scope Note

This collection is made up of the correspondence, business papers, and assorted miscellany of Dexter and Sheldon Hitchcock, and their families between 1834 and 1878. Of interest to the economic historian will be the shipping receipts and bills of lading in the business papers of Dexter Hitchcock, 1834-1835, and the various personal account books for the post Civil War period in Folder 6. There are also two interesting letters dealing with western lands in the correspondence of Sheldon Hitchcock, and a group of letters written by soldiers in the Union Army to family and friends in Aurora, Illinois.

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Subject Headings

Hitchcock, Dexter
Hitchcock, Sheldon
Hitchcock family
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

INVENTORY

Box 1 Folder 1

Correspondence of Dexter Hitchcock, Mobile, Alabama, 1834-1835

(1) A pencil copy of a letter to his sister informing her of his determination to go to Mobile
(2) 15 letters to or from P. S. Gerald, G. C. Knight, C. M. Rogers, and his brother, Warren Hitchcock in Ireland, 1834-1835
(3) Letter from H. W. Russell addressed to Hitchcock in Baltimore

Box 1 Folder 2

Business Papers of Dexter Hitchcock, 1834-1835

(1) 9 items; shipping receipts, bills of lading, memos of sales
(2) 9 items; Bills and records of personal expenses
(3) Miscellaneous; Poetry, possibly of Dexter Hitchcock, but more probably that of P. S. Gerald

Box 1 Folder 3

Correspondence of Sheldon Hitchcock, Suffield, Connecticut and Aurora, Illinois, 1839-1861

16 letters, business and personal, two of them undated

Box 1 Folder 4

Business papers of Sheldon Hitchcock

(1) 9 items: bills and public notices pursuant to affairs of the Suffield, Connecticut District School, 1842-1845
(2) 15 items; bills and business memoranda of Sheldon Hitchcock, 1835-1860

Box 1 Folder 5

Correspondence of Union soldiers with friends in Aurora, Illinois

11 letters, 1861-1864, one undated

Box 1 Folder 6

Miscellaneous

(1) 4 miscellaneous letters
(2) 2 school compositions of Clara Hitchcock
(3) Account book of Sheldon Hitchcock, Aurora, Illinois, with entries dated 1857, 1861
(4) Account of Year's Expenses, 1869; Alice C. Hitchcock
(5) Expense Account of E. K. and Alice C. Isbell, 1873-1878
(6) Pamphlet; Catalogue of Shults, Wiley, & Wickes, Fruit and Produce Commission Merchants, New York, 1860