Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Henry Edwards Papers contains the business and personal papers of Henry Edwards, a Salem, Massachusetts-born ship’s captain. Materials include: an 1857 cargo manifest for the George W. Jones (Brig); an 1857 letter from Edwards to his wife; a notarized record of Edward’s status as a seaman issued in Salem and other Salem documents; correspondence related to Edward’s work for the merchant John Bertram of Salem as captain of the ...