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Correspondence and documents of the Catlin family. Most of the correspondence is addressed to Abijah and David W. Catlin, general merchants of dry goods, and comes from dealers in Connecticut, New York and other states along the Eastern seaboard.

Records of firms owning and operating packet boats and clipper ships at New York City. Fifteen volumes of letter books (11,450 leaves), 1855-1871, and 32 volumes of ledgers, etc., 1853-1871, including those of J.B. Dickinson, 1850-1855; Wakeman, Gookin and Dickinson, 1866-1871; and Wakeman, Dimon & Col, 1853-1863. The letter books, ledgers, and account books show operation of the firm. Many letters of instructions to captains of various vessels.

Correspondence addressed to the firms Thomas Kilby Jones, Jones & Brazier, and Jones & Bass, consisting chiefly of business transactions with merchants in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Annapolis, and Alexandria, Va.