📜 1850 0918 — Expanding the Market Beyond the Gulf Charles Stillman Writes to Charles Partridge, New York Introduction By mid-September 185...

A letter written from New York in November of 1853 reminds us that Charles Stillman was not merely a frontier merchant. While managing wareh...

The Rio Grande Trade Triangle (1850s) 1. Brazos Santiago — The Ocean Gateway In the early 1850s the Rio Grande economy revolved around a sim...

A short note from Monterrey dated December 9, 1853 reveals how deeply Charles Stillman’s business network had penetrated northern Mexico. Th...

 This is a very nice piece of correspondence because it shows the Mexican side of the Rio Grande business network that surrounded Charles St...

1853 Letter — J. H. Phelps to Charles Stillman In June of 1853, a New Orleans merchant named J. H. Phelps wrote two long letters to Charles ...

The Final 1853 Letter from Price, Walsh & Co. New Orleans, November 4, 1853 The final surviving letter in this group of correspondence f...

Letters from New Orleans Price, Walsh & Co. and the Tobacco Trade — 1852–1853 Among the correspondence preserved in the Charles Stillman...

  These April 1852 letters from Price, Walsh & Co. are excellent because they reveal something historians often miss: quality competiti...

Transcription (Price, Walsh & Co. to Charles Stillman — January 13, 1852) New Orleans 13th January 1852 Messrs. Stillman & Partners ...

Transcription (Price, Walsh & Co. to Charles Stillman — January 8, 1852) Gulf Port In due receipt of yours of the 22nd ult., and agreeab...

Transcription (Best Reconstruction) Brownsville, March 12th, 1852 Dear Sir, I am in receipt of your esteemed favors of January 28 and Februa...

A Merchant’s Troubles on the Rio Grande Charles Nimmons Writes to Charles Stillman, July 1852 In July of 1852, Charles Nimmons , writing fro...