Correspondence, 1856 - 1857

The collection primarily contains correspondence from John Stratton Gilman to his brother Eliphalet Gilman. The letters discuss family matters as well as their business in the iron industry. The business correspondence includes information on orders received, the general pace of business, and payments and accounts. Gilman mostly writes of his own family’s health and affairs in Baltimore and seeks information about his family back home in the North. The family also commissioned Adna Tenney to paint portraits which is in detail in the correspondence. A history of the family is also part of the collection which includes oral histories with various family members, memoirs, and copies from published genealogies.