Folder 2

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The letters recount the trading and financial conditions in the New Orleans branch of the family owned business controlled by William S. and J.H. Leverich. The letters give information on the cotton trade, shipping, insurance, banking, and the character and standing of various merchants. There are also references to the social life of the period, agents and customers in other Southern and a few Northern cities, banking conditions in the wake of U.S. President Andrew Jackson's Specie Circular...