Volume 17

Scope and Content Note:: Material collected by Kenneth Wiggins Porter during the writing of his book John Jacob Astor: Business Man (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931.) Correspondence and other papers, including account books of the Hunt-McKenzie overland party to Astoria, Oregon, and the Pacific Fur Company, 1806-1823; a small number of letters, invoices, and agreements relating to the Pacific Fur Company, the American Fur Company and the China trade; and letter books,...