Francis Blanchard Bonnette Collection

Scope and Content

More than one thousand business papers of Edward Murphy, Grand Ecore merchant, deal with shipping by steamboat on the Red River.  Dated mainly in 1866 and the mid-1870s, there are thirty-three  Civil War era items, plus some papers from as early as 1841 and as late as 1894.  Curious medical advertising fliers are also in the 1894 folder.  A three-inch segment of the first transatlantic cable follows folder 44.

Inventory

 

Folder
1 Letter, E. Murphy to J. B. Trizzini, 1841
2 Business papers, 1850s
3 Business papers, 1860-1863
4 Letters and business papers, 1864
5 Letters and business papers, January-June 1865
6 Business Papers, July 1865
7 Business Papers, August 1865
8 Business papers, September 1865
9 Business papers, October 1865
10 Business papers, November 1865
11 Business papers, December 1865
12 Business papers, January 1866
13 Business papers, February 1866
14 Business papers, March 1866
15 Business papers, April 1866
16 Business papers, March-July 1866
17 Business papers, August-September 1866
18 Business papers, October 1866
19 Business papers, November 1866
20 Business papers, December 1866
21 Business papers, 1867-1873
22 Business papers, January-August 1876
23 Business papers, September 1876
24 Business papers, October 1876
25 Business papers, November 1876
26 Business papers, December 1876
27 Business papers, January 1877
28 Business papers, February 1877
29 Business papers, March-June 1877
30 Business papers, July 1877
31 Business papers, August-December 1877
32 Business papers, January 1878
33 Business papers, February-April 1878
34 Business papers, June-July 1878
35 Business papers, August-September 1878
36 Business papers, October-November 1878
37 Business papers, December 1878
38 Business papers, 1879
39 Business papers, 1880-1889
40 Business papers, 1890-1892
41 Business papers, 1893
42 Business papers and personal papers, 1894
43 Probably close to the Civil War years, undated
44 Probably late 19th century, undated
One three-inch segment of the first transatlantic cable