05848cpcaa2200973 a 4500 mm 80038562 DLC 20260227111704.0 cr ||||||||||| 800703|||||||||||| eng mm 80038562 ms 82001238 DLC dacs DLC DLC N lcmd Russell & Co. Russell & Co. records, 1812-1894 (bulk 1819-1840). 3,900 items. 12 containers plus 4 oversize. 10 microfilm reels. 5 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, financial and legal records, and miscellany relating to Russell & Co., Guangzhou (Canton), China, and to its founder, Samuel Russell, and members of his family. Includes material relating to the merger of Russell & Co. with John P. Cushing, William Perkins & Company of Boston, Mass., and Houqua, of Guangzhou, China; banking problems in the U.S.; national and international monetary matters; commerce with China; commerce within the U.S.; the Russell Manufacturing Company, producer of elastic webbing, established in Middletown, Conn., in 1831; Ithiel Town's design of Samuel Russell's Middletown mansion; land speculation in Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, and Wisconsin; the Turkish opium trade; the American Colonization Society; and epilepsy and the medical care of Russell's son, John A. Russell. Family correspondence chiefly between Samuel Russell and his sons, George O. Russell and John A. Russell, and his brother, Edward Augustus Russell. Other correspondents include J.W. Alsop, Richard Alsop, Philip Ammidon, John Jacob Astor, Cyrus Butler, John Murray Forbes, R.B. Forbes, Augustine Heard, Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, S.D. Hubbard, William Henry Low, W.L. Newberry, Ithiel Town, Samuel Wetmore, and William Wetmore. Firms represented by correspondence include Baring Brothers & Co., Benjamin & Thomas C. Hoppins, Clarke & Company, of Smyrna, Turkey, Edward Carrington & Company, George Douglas & Company, Hull & Griswold, and Ward & Bartholomew. Microfilm edition available, no. 19,140. Microfilm produced from the originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985. Trading house founded in 1819 by Samuel Russell of Middletown, Conn., in Guangzhou (Canton), China. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075 Alsop, J. W. (Joseph Wright), 1804-approximately 1878 Correspondence. Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815 Correspondence. Ammidon, Philip Correspondence. Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848 Correspondence. Butler, Cyrus, 1767-1849 Correspondence. Forbes, John Murray, 1771-1831 Correspondence. Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804-1889 Correspondence. Heard, Augustine, 1785-1868 Correspondence. Hubbard, Gurdon Saltonstall, 1802-1886 Correspondence. Hubbard, S. D. (Samuel Dickinson), 1799-1855 Correspondence. Low, William Henry, 1816-1845 Correspondence. Newberry, W. L. (Walter Loomis), 1804-1868 Correspondence. Russell, Edward Augustus, 1797- Correspondence. Russell, George O. Correspondence. Russell, John A., active 1838-1846 Correspondence. Town, Ithiel, 1784-1844. Town, Ithiel, 1784-1844 Correspondence. Wetmore, Samuel, approximately 1813-1885 Correspondence. Wetmore, William, 1776- Correspondence. Russell family. American Colonization Society. Baring Brothers & Co. Correspondence. Benjamin & Thomas C. Hoppins (Firm) Correspondence. Clarke & Company Correspondence. Claude Daniel Crommelin & Sons Correspondence. Edward Carrington & Company Correspondence. George Douglas & Company Correspondence. Houqua (Trading company) Hull & Griswold Correspondence. John P. Cushing, William Perkins & Company Russell Manufacturing Company. Ward & Bartholomew Correspondence. William Perkins & Company. Architecture Connecticut Middletown. Banks and banking United States. Cotton manufacture Connecticut Middletown. Epilepsy. Land speculation Illinois. Land speculation Kentucky. Land speculation Michigan. Land speculation New Jersey. Land speculation Ohio. Land speculation Wisconsin. Medicine History 19th century. Monetary policy. Monetary policy United States. Opium trade Turkey. China Commerce United States. Guangzhou (China) Commerce. United States Commerce History 19th century. United States Commerce China. Russell, Samuel, 1789-approximately 1862. Samuel Russell papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075.3 42876 42876