Preliminary Inventory of the Fenimore Family Papers, 1805-1890s

Fenimore Family Papers, 1805-1890s

Fenimore family

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Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

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[Identification of item], Fenimore Family Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Acquired.

Processed by Don Sechler

Completed May 4, 1999

This collection is unprocessed: materials may have not been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

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Collection contains business letters to lawyer Jason Laurance Fenimore (1769-1869). Also included are family letters, genealogy, some ephemera, poems, and unidentified volumes. Topics include business in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, banking, railroads, coal and timber land, mining, and navigation; and farm and family life in Philadelphia and in Burlington, N.J. There are also some diaries.

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