Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, financial and legal documents, ledgers, inventories, estate records, ephemera, books, and journals pertaining to the business transactions, family relationships and the estates of Augustus Hemenway, his wife, Mary Tileston Hemenway, and various other family members. Their biographer and extended family member, Frederic A. Eustis, compiled these materials in his research. As one of the foremost "merchant princes" in the 19th century, Augustus...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection contains correspondence, financial and legal documents, ledgers, inventories, estate records, ephemera, books, and journals pertaining to the business transactions, family relationships and the estates of Augustus Hemenway, his wife, Mary Tileston Hemenway, and various other family members. Their biographer and extended family member, Frederic A. Eustis, compiled these materials in his research. As one of the foremost "merchant princes" in the 19th century, Augustus...