Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Insurance Companies includes papers of eight marine and fire insurance companies from 1800 to 1893. Of note are furniture inventories included with policy proposals of the Essex Mutual Fire Insurance Company and the correspondence of the Salem Marine Insurance Company (1800-ca. 1840) (a company which is not to be confused with the later firm (1856-1897) of the same name, see MSS 137). This correspondence, most of which...