Ellis & Allan Company (Richmond, Va.) creator mixed material monographic eng 80,000 633 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. Open to research. 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 mm 79019711 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms998014 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms998014.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998014 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998014.3 Open to research. DLC 791030 20260227111655.0 mm 79019711