This selection of letters drawn from the Mary L. Geschwind Papers, held by the Library of Virginia, focuses on business and personal correspondence of the Haase family of Richmond, Virginia, from the late...

Correspondence sent to journalist and entrepreneur Henry Villard from his German relatives. Villard, born Heinrich Hilgard in 1835, in Speyer, was born into a wealthy family and first traveled to the United...

The Hilgard family circle includes people who appear in three correspondences: 1) between the Engelmann siblings to their sister Margarethe Hilgard, née Engelmann 2) between Henry Villard alias Heinrich...

The Meyer Brothers Collection is drawn from the Meyer Brothers’ Store Records, held by the Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The bulk of the letters were originally...