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Title:American historical financial documents collection, 1734-1874 (bulk 1777-1790).
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Physical Description:4.76 linear feet (6 boxes)
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Notes:Many manuscript items accompanied by typed transcripts.
In English.
Purchased from William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund and the Library Associates Fund and with funds from an anonymous donor through the International Center for Finance of the Yale School of Management, 2003.
This collection was formed by the firm Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette [DLJ]. and was known in the research community for a long period of time as the DLJ Collection.
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Organization:Organized into two series. Series I. Currency and Public Debt Documents, 1774-1874. Series II. United States Lottery Documents, 1777-1781.
- Access and use:This material is open for research.
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Summary:Correspondence, accounts, receipts, checks, printed currency, circular letters, printed forms filled out in manuscript, and other printed material related to American finance, currency and lotteries during and after the Revolutionary War. Series I, Currency and Public Debt Documents, includes letters by Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville; Albert Gallatin; John Gibson; Alexander Hamilton; Gouverneur Morris; Robert Morris; and Thomas Willing. There is a small group of letters between Gouverneur Morris and the London bankers Sir Francis Baring, Edmund Boehm, and Thomas Henchman concerning their possible investment in the "new American funds" in 1790 and 1791. Printed material includes Thomas Paine's Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance (Philadelphia, 1796) as well as circular letters and debt payment tables. Other contents include reports on Revolutionary War loans and other contemporary financial matters; receipts issued by several states, particularly Connecticut and Massachusetts, between 1780 and 1789; and samples of state and Continental Congress paper money. Series II, United States Lottery Documents, contains letters by state agents for the Continental Lottery; accounts and account logs for the lottery; memoranda; and a printed lottery ticket from 1779.
- Format:Archives or Manuscripts
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
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Cite as:American Historical Financial Documents Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Subjects:Baring, Francis, Sir, 1740-1810.
Boehm, Edmund.
Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849.
Gibson, John, 1729-1782.
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804.
Henchman, Thomas.
Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816.
Morris, Robert, 1734-1806.
Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785.
Willing, Thomas, 1731-1821.
United States. Board of Treasury.
United States. Congress.
United States. Continental Congress.
United States. Department of the Treasury.
Debts, Public--Law and legislation--United States.
Debts, Public--United States.
Debts, Public--United States--States.
Finance, Public--United States.
Finance, Public--United States--States.
Lotteries--United States.
Paper money--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.
United States--Politics and government--1789-1797.
United States--Politics and government--1797-1801.
United States--Politics and government--1801-1815.
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Genre/Form:Accounts--United States--18th century.
Checks (bank checks)--United States--18th century.
Continental currency--United States--18th century.
Paper money--United States--18th century.
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