Jeremiah C. Garthwaite Letters to Jacob T. Garthwaite: Finding Aid mssGarthwaite
Gayle M. Richardson
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Title: Jeremiah C. Garthwaite letters to Jacob T. Garthwaite
Creator:
Garthwaite, Jeremiah Crane, 1807-1883
Identifier/Call Number: mssGarthwaite
Physical Description:
0.2 Linear Feet
(3 folders)
Date (inclusive): 1831-1836
Abstract: A collection of letters from New
Orleans businessman Jeremiah C. Garthwaite to his brother Jacob T. Garthwaite.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Johnson Rare Books and Archives, January 2021.
Jeremiah Crane Garthwaite (1807-1883) was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a
Revolutionary War veteran. In the 1830s Garthwaite moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, and was
a partner in a wholesale clothing business which was dissolved in 1860.
A collection of 13 letters from Jeremiah C. Garthwaite to his brother Jacob Thomas
Garthwaite (1808-1859). The letters are long and detailed and give Garthwaite's impressions
of New Orleans, Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri, Charleston, North Carolina, and Vicksburg,
Mississippi, among other locations. In the letters, he discusses national, state, and local
politics, as well as the business and social life of the early 1830s in the South. The
letters shed new light on the history of Louisiana, Kentucky, and Mississippi between the
Nullification Crisis and the 1837 Panic.
Collection processed by Gayle M. Richardson in May 2022.
Arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Brothers -- United States -- Correspondence
New Orleans (La.) -- Commerce
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th century
New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th
century
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century
Garthwaite, Jacob Thomas, 1808-1859
Box Main file 87, Folder 5
Box Main file 87, Folder 6