Letter bookMissouri Fur Company1819-1823The letterbook is in two parts: 1821-23 letters of the Missouri Fur Company by acting partner Thomas Hempstead; and 1819-22 letters of United States Military Store by the storekeeper Thomas Hempstead. The Missouri Fur Company letters are to acting partner Joshua Pilcher, Charles Billon, Louis Bompart, O. N. Bostwick, J. C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, James Monroe, Andrew Woods, and others. The military storekeeper's letters are to George Gibson, Commissary General of Subsistence at Washington, and others.Formerly in the library of George H. Hart of New York, the letter book was sold at auction at the Anderson Galleries, October 17, 1922. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe.Original binding.text