Box 3

Scope and Contents

Much of this is business and financial correspondence, but also included is a letter in French from "Beelen," sent from Pittsburgh, and dated to 1877.

Scope and Contents

These typed and hand written letters were sent from Stoddard's villa on Lake Como, in Italy, and contain reflections on contemporary Italian society, socialism, politics, and personal anecdotes. Also included are several printed copies of poems which Stoddard sent and dedicated to Bright, entitled "Youth and Age," and "The Pagan Past."

Scope and Contents

Includes stock certificates, correspondence from companies to shareholders, receipts, and accounts of Bright's portfolio. Also included is a four-page copy of a Deed of Trust from Henry W. Biddle to the Fidelity Trust Company (1920). Most of Bright's financial business was transacted through A.A. Housman & Co.

Scope and Contents

Includes stock certificates, receipts, correspondence, lists of securities, and accounts of Bright's portfolio. Thomas A. Biddle & Co. was the brokerage firm handling the bulk of the business in this folder, for both Robert and Caroline Bright.

Scope and Contents

Includes stock certificates, receipts, correspondence, and accounts for Robert and Caroline Bright. Also included are annual prospectuses for the Electric Auto-Lite Co., the Zonite Products Corp., and Mack Trucks, Inc.; and notices of annual meetings from various companies in which they owned stock.

Scope and Contents Most of these were contracted either by Robert or Caroline Bright. Included are policies for fire insurance from the Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance Company (1897), and the Spring Garden Insurance Company (1896); for theft insurance from the Fidelity and Casualty Co. (1898); for property insurance from the Commercial Union Assurance Co., limited (1933), the Insurance Company of North America (1933), the Virginia Home Insurance Company (for W.H.E. Manecock, 1878), and the Insurance and Trust...