Subseries B. Correspondence includes letterbooks, merchant house correpsondence, and miscellaneous correspondence. Additional correspondence relating to the procurement, shipment, and sale of cargo can also be found in this subseries. The letterbooks contain both ingoing and outgoing correspondence with merchant houses and shipmasters from 1803 to 1825. The merchant house correspondence from Boston, Cadiz, Hamburg, Jamaica, London, New Orleans, and New York contains letters that do not discuss the activities of specific ships. Also filed here are letters from the co-owners of Edmund's vessels. Miscellaneous correspondence includes shipping, personal, and business letters. It discusses Edmund's investments in banks, insurance, and real estate; procurement of goods for his store and vessels; his financial support of religious and educational societies; and the activities of his family.