Box 1

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Last will and testament of Edward Wilson, with two abstracts of the will

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Executors accounts, residue reports, and legal opinions regarding the distribution of the estate, contains information about railroad stocks and investments

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Letters between Edward Wilson's heirs and trustees about the management and distribution of the estate and the Crosfields' share; receipts signed S. Spackman.

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Annual reports of the L & M Railway, with two additional items for the Grand Junction Railway, and a report on commercial shipping in Liverpool, 1839.

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Records of an investment transaction between Caleb Kirk and Edward Wilson concerning the trade of bonds and stocks for Wilmington - Kennett Turnpike.

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Copies of letters written by William Savory Wilson to family members including Samuel Spackman (uncle), Wm. H Spackman, and William Loyd (cousins).

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Correspondents include William Savory Wilson, his uncle Samuel Spackman, and his cousins, W. H. Spackman and John Spackman. Business and personal topics appear; includes papers regarding an outstanding debt to Mead, Wilson and Co.

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Joseph Walker - William Savory Wilson Correspondence, 1829 - 1842 Also includes letters from Henry M. Walker, 1841 - 1842, regarding the Reading Rail Road Company in Pennsylvania and Delaware

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Includes receipts, shipping invoices, and bills. See also Series IV, Folder 25.

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Includes a day book for accounts regarding cloth shipping, especially blankets, from Philadelphia. Many receipts to Richard Ashurst, with a list of Philadelphia merchants. Several pages missing; news clips included as it was later used as a household hints scrapbook. Also, a ledger book for the "Estate of Wm S. Wilson."

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Copies of letters written by Thomas B. Wilson to family members, manufacture and transportation of iron, collecting activities, cholera outbreak in Philadelphia, stocks and dividends, Rathmell's purchase of a farm, land prices, etc.

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Primarily from Elm Farm, the family estate near Liverpool, England

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Primarily from Paris, France

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Many concern collecting natural specimens, some about the distribution of their father's estate

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Mainly from other family members, including Rathmell Wilson, Charles Wilson, Rebecca (Bellerby) Wilson (Mother), and Elizabeth Crosfield (sister), also includes one letter from Mary Biddle

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Tin stencil of Thomas B. Wilson's initials and motto, book plates, blank cheques, notices of his death, 1865, notice of public auction for sale of T. Wilson home at 1712 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

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Mainly books purchased for his personal library and for institutional gifts

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Mainly natural history specimens including birds, eggs, and minerals, also includes offerings of duplicates from collections at the British Museum.

Scope and Contents Acknowledgements, invitations, memberships, requests, and correspondence. Organizations include the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Society of Philadelphia, American Academy of Music, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,United States Coastal Survey, Museum of Comparative Zoology in Boston, Smithsonian Institute, American Philosophical Society, Megnanerie Expérimentale de Saite-Tulle, Société Impériale Zoologique d'Acclimation, Fairmont Park, Mountville Institute, and...

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Letters about accounts, the stock market and various investments (Pennsylvania RR and NY Gas Light), family news

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See also Series I, Folder 3

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From his sister Elizabeth (Wilson) Crosfield, sister-in-law Fanny Wilson, wife Martha (Meeteer) Wilson, and father Edward Wilson

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Includes letters from the London and Birmingham Railway, bonds, mortgages, deeds, and receipts. Also includes a Chancery Court complaint in Delaware "Rathmell Wilson vs. The Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad Company" about property lines and train tracks in Newark, Delaware.

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Manuscript check stubs and a running account balance. Contains references to accounts of William Savory Wilson and Rathmell Wilson, rents collected, and deposits from Reading Rail Road Coupons, Tennessee Coupons, Illinois Central Rail Road, and others.