04255cpcaa2200661 a 4500 mm 79019711 DLC 20260227111655.0 cr ||||||||||| 791030|||||||||||| eng mm 79019711 ms 63000345 ms 65000903 DLC DLC DLC dacs C lcmd Ellis & Allan Company (Richmond, Va.) Ellis & Allan Company records, 1795-1889. 80,000 items. 633 containers. Open to research. Business and personal correspondence, journals, ledgers, daybooks, cashbooks, tobacco books, and other records of the firm known variously as Ellis & Allan Company, Thomas & Charles Ellis, Ellis & Sons, and Thomas and Charles Ellis & Company of Richmond, Va., general merchants and tobacco traders. Includes records of the counterpart firm in London, Allan & Ellis, as well as those of several subsidiary companies organized in Lynchburg and in Amherst County, Va., for the buying and selling of tobacco. Also includes letters from Charles Ellis, Jr., a student at the University of Virginia in the 1830s, describing his activities there; letters from his brother, Thomas H. Ellis, student at the United States Military Academy; and records (1830-1850) of the James River & Kanawha Company, chartered to build a canal from Richmond westward along the James River. Other correspondents include William Bolling, Archibald Cary, John Hartwell Cocke, Powhatan Ellis, Armistead Gordon, J. B. Harrison, Carter Page, John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, and St. George Tucker. Among names found in the ledgers are those of Peter Francisco, James Monroe, Spencer Roane, and William Wickham. Microfilm edition of containers 633-634, James N. Ellis's West Point papers, available, 16,799. Microfilm edition of container 438, Edgar Allan Poe, available, 19,274. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976-1986. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998014 Bolling, William, 1789-1849 Correspondence. Cary, Archibald, 1721-1787 Correspondence. Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866 Correspondence. Ellis, Charles, 1817-1900 Correspondence. Ellis, Powhatan, 1790-1863 Correspondence. Ellis, Thomas H. (Thomas Harding), 1814-1898 Correspondence. Francisco, Peter, 1760-1831. Gordon, Armistead Correspondence. Harrison, J. B. (Jesse Burton), 1805-1841 Correspondence. Monroe, James, 1758-1831. Page, Carter Correspondence. Randolph, John, 1773-1833 Correspondence. Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann), 1768-1828 Correspondence. Roane, Spencer, 1762-1822. Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827 Correspondence. Wickham, William. Allan & Ellis (London, England) Ellis & Sons. Thomas and Charles Ellis & Company. James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.) United States Military Academy Students 19th century. University of Virginia Students 19th century. Business records Virginia. Canals Virginia James River. Merchants Virginia Richmond. Tobacco industry England London. Tobacco industry Virginia Amherst County. Tobacco industry Virginia Lynchburg. Tobacco industry Virginia Richmond. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998014 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998014.3 42200 42200