Russell & Co creator mixed material monographic eng 3,900 12 4 10 5 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. Open to research. 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 mm 80038562 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010075.3 Open to research. DLC 800703 20260227111704.0 mm 80038562