Series II. George Peabody (1804-1892) Papers are arranged into five subseries. Subseries A. Correspondence includes family and business correspondence, invitations, and programs. Subseries B. Financial, Legal, and Other Papers contain bills, receipts, account books, ledgers, military commissions and discharges, passports, and legal papers. It also includes Eastern Railroad documents. Subseries C. Writings and Other Papers consist of journals that George Peabody kept while traveling, diaries, poems, hymns, other writings, and a sketchbook. Subseries D. Fiske's Wharf Records contains legal papers, correspondence, insurance policies, receipts, and rent accounts. George Peabody, John Eliot Thayer, and Nathaniel Thayer founded the Tremont Wharf Company which owned Fiske's Wharf. Subseries E. Clarissa (Clara) Peabody (1806-1892) Papers contain correspondence and checks of George's wife, Clara.