Call Number:

C0390

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 7 boxes
• 3.8 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Jesse Smith Blydenburgh Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1856-1900 (inclusive)

Creator:

Blydenburgh, Jesse Smith, 1832-1900

Form:

Business records -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century., Commercial correspondence -- 19th century., and Diaries -- 19th century

Abstract:

Consists of correspondence, both personal and business, five ledgers (1859-1880), two photographs, and a diary (1869) of Jesse Smith Blydenburgh, a nineteenth-century importer-exporter in New York City.

Jesse Smith Blydenburgh operated an import-export business, much of it in the tea trade, in New York City in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

The collection consists of Blydenburgh's correspondence, both personal and business, five ledgers (1859-1880), two photographs, and a diary (1869). Letters, originals and copies, written by Blydenburgh to his brothers, Judson and Richard, during trips to South Carolina, California, Yokohama (Japan), and Hong Kong, form the bulk of the family correspondence. The business correspondence deals with Blydenburgh's New York City import-export business, much of it in the tea trade, and includes letters from associates such as the firm of Smith, Baker & Co.

Unprocessed.