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Series II: Telegrams
Series III: Letterbooks
Series VI: Maps
Series VII: Printed Matter
Series VIII: Memorabilia
Series IX: Miscellaneous

Charlemagne Tower papers, 1830-1889

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Series IV: Manuscripts

Subseries IV.1: Manuscript Books


Box 23 Register, C. Tower, 1844, Court cases, February 29, 1844-March 29, 1869

Box 23 Daybook and Journal 2, Estate of R. Tower 1846, April 8, 1846-May 1, 1865

Box 23 Ledger, C. Tower, 1853, January 8, 1853-March 14, 1861


Box 24 Tax book, 1811-1836

Box 24 Casebook, Dec. Sessions-Mar. Sessions, 1853-1857

Box 24 Tower City Property, Daybook, August 17, 1869-July 22, 1873

Box 24 Tower City Property, Ledger, February 8, 1870-July 22, 1873

Box 24 Daybook, A: Bickel & Yohe, Tower City Saw Mill, July 9, 1869-April 27, 1870

Box 24 Daybook, B: Bickel & Yohe, April 29, 1870-December 31, 1870

Box 24 Daybook, C: Mattis & Yohe, Tower City, January 2, 1871-July 29, 1872

Box 24 Minnesota Iron Company, Transfer Book, February 5, 1883-October 13, 1887

Estate of Reuben Tower, 1787-1832


Box 25 Trustee Book, September 1, 1831-May 1, 1865

Box 25 Daybook and Journal, December 1, 1836-April 8, 1846

Box 25 Ledger, May 1, 1838-May 1, 1865


Box 26 Misc. accounts, C. Tower, 1880, December 20, 1877-April 13, 1888

Box 26 Plate (negative) and photos of Sarah Louisa Tower

Box 26 Journal [diary], November 18, 1829-July 14, 1834

Box 26 Scrapbook, newspaper clippings, 1880-1890

Box 26 Ledger, Estate of Amelia M. Tower Dec'd, April 30, 1896-January 18,1897

Box 26 Collections on the Page & Seabury Acts", May 10, 1843-April 8, 1848

Box 26 Bear Valley Coal Company, May 20, 1839

Box 26 Tower City Tenement Accounts, June 26, 1876-January 14, 1881


Box 27 Tower, C (1809-1889).: 4 account and bank books

Box 27 Tower, C. (1809-1889): "Iron Analysis Record", 1880

Box 27 Tower, C. (1809-1889)." 2 diaries kept while at Harvard", January 1827-November 8, 1829

Box 27 Tower, C. (1809-1889): diary, October 11, 1830

Box 27 Tower, C. (1848-1923): loan record, 1890

Subseries IV.2: Tower Family Manuscripts


Box 28 Tower, C. (1809-1889): Prose-Journal of my voyage to Charleston, 1832

Box 28 Tower, C. (1809-1889): Prose

Box 28 Tower family: Prose

Box 28 Tower Family: Poetry

Box 28 Tower family: fragments

Box 28 Misc. manuscripts

Box 28 Misc. manuscripts: fragments

Subseries IV.3: C. Tower, 1809-1889, at Harvard


Box 29 Correspondence - Letters written from Harvard

Box 29 Manuscripts - Poetry

Box 29 Manuscripts - Prose - Forensic papers, 1828-1830

Box 29 Manuscripts - Prose - Themes & Exercises (2 folders), 1825-1827, 1826-1830

Box 29 Harvard Catalogs, 1825-1832

Box 29 Receipts from Harvard, 1826-September 1844