Portsmouth Journal Papers – MS068
Provenance: Special Collection’s Purchase
Citation: Portsmouth Journal Papers (MS068), Manuscript Collections, Portsmouth Athenaeum
Size: 1 Hollinger Box (6 linear inches)
Access: No restrictions
Processed by: Reprocessed by Susan Stowe Kindstedt in 2010
Scope and Content
Collection is primarily business correspondence including letters from individuals with out of town subscriptions to the Portsmouth Journal, advertising requests, individuals publishing articles, etc. Folders are listed chronologically. The lists with each folder are of the author of the letter (very few are the letter recipient with the author being the Portsmouth Journal, these cases are noted as such). Nearly all of the materials date from Lewis W. Brewster’s first two decades as publisher and editor, approximately 1868 to 1884.
Historical Note
ThePortsmouth Journal was published weekly by Charles W. Brewster (1802-1868) and his son Lewis W. Brewster. The elder Brewster apprenticed at the age of sixteen with The Portsmouth Oracle, published at that time by Charles Turell. In 1821 (or 1823), it was purchased by Nathaniel Appleton Haven, Jr. and underwent a change of name as well as editorship. Brewster and Tobias Ham Miller became joint proprietors of the paper in 1825. Ten years later, Brewster became sole proprietor and editor. In 1853 Lewis W. Brewster joined his father in the publishing business. Following his father’s death, he became sole proprietor until his merger in 1903 with the New Hampshire Gazette.
Folder List
Folder 1 Correspondence 1862 and 1867
George K. Hooper
James Pickering
W. H. D. Merrill
Josiah Bacon
William Martin Harding
J. Rowe
A. H. Flanders
Charles Marseilles
Folder 2 Correspondence January 1868-June 1868
George Fitzpatrick
Frank Fernald
E. Brown
Locke & Hund
E. R. Butler
Alexander H. Dennett
George P. Griffith
L. H. Whitehouse
H. K. H. Hall
C. L. Parker
Samuel Storer
B. Barnes Jr.
A. L. Bryant
H. C. Head
A. N. Lewis
— Curtis
William H. Hackett
H. A. Caigill
George H. Fields
W. W. Black
T. C. Evans
James W. Emery
George P. GriffithT. Haines
G. U. Jenness
Nathaniel Cotton
Charles Herman
George P. Rowell
T. F. Davies
George R. Griffith
Folder 3 Correspondence July 1868
George R. Griffith
“The Poet of Fort Constitution”
P. C. Jones (from the Portsmouth Journal office)
George R. Griffith
James F. Otis
Samuel A. James
George R. Griffith
Theodore S. Harris
George R. Griffith
J. Getchell
S. M. Pettengill
C. M. Wyman
Stephen W. Clark
J. T. Walker
John S. Hill
George R. Griffith
Augusta Seavey
Robert Odiorne Seavey
C. W. Harrold
Robert Treadwell
A. F. Lincoln
H. T. Helmbold
H. C. Bamaber
A. L. Bryant
J. A. Curtis
Ralph L. Cutter
Mary G. Fiske
S. B. Childs
S. M. Pettengill
Folder 4 Correspondence August 1868-September 1868
Samuel[?] Kimball
William H. Yeaton
National Publishing Company regarding “The War Between the States”
D. K. Noyes
George R. Griffith
Aaron Young
John S. March
John Wentworth
Lucas Place
J. C. Smith
A. L. Bryant
Isaac H. Brown
Philip O’Neil “Except of a Speech Delivered by Tyrone”
S. A. James
“The Sessions of History” by Tyrone [manuscript article]
P. A. McMoore
S. D. Warren
Henry S. Lambert
S. D. Warren
W. L. Langly
Merrill & Mackintire
Benjamin J. Tredick
S. D. Warren
Frederick Hudson
Oriental Tea Company
J. R. Barrett (Barrett’s Vegetable Hair Restorative)
Samuel A. James
Peter Young
William M. Conant
J. R. Barrett (Barrett’s Vegetable Hair Restorative)
Ephraim Dennett
R. W. Bliss
Folder 5 Correspondence October 1868-December 1868
George B. Griffith
A. H. Hoyt
Moses K. Foss
Peaslee & Company
A. L. Bryant
James H. Hill (Johnston’s Reaper and McSherry’s Grain Drill)
J. H. Brown (Rogers & Lawton Wholesale Druggist)
Thayer & Dunham (Printing Press for Sale advertisement)
S. Moore
A. L. Bryant
James L. Mitchell
George B. Griffith
Jared Rowe
Thayer & Dunham
Carrie C. Haley
Thayer & Dunham
H. C. Barnebee
Adaline S. Budd
R. W. Bliss
Allen & Shailer
Richard S. Evans
Evans Advertising Agency
J. Palmer
Allen & Shailer
Luis S. Shillaber
Richard S. Evans
A. F. Lincoln
Thomas L. Tullock (Union Republican Executive Committee)
James M. Lovering
G. C. Butler
C. B. Moulton
G. S. Grundy
Evans Advertising Agency
Eben F. Brown (Bryant & Stratton Business College)
Peaslee & Co. General Advertising Agents
W. A. Peabody
S. H. Pettengill & Co.
Francis Sargent
Oriental Tea Company
W. H. Phillips
Eben F. Brown (Bryant & Stratton Business College)
John W. Brook
J. B. Cline (“New Grapes & Strawberries”)
J. B. Cline (“Nursery Stock”)
E. E. Beede
William Sawyer
George B. Griffith
H. C. Barnabee
Folder 6 Correspondence 1869
Eliza W. Ward
Mrs. G. A. Currier
S. M. Pettengill
C. H. Barnabee
William Stearns
S. Fernald
Andrew J. Hill
Sophia B. Brown
J. C. Long
Mrs. Henry H. Ladd
J. Getchell
Mrs. T. N. Porter
Mary A. Batchelder
A. H. Cheever
John L. Badger
R. P. Crane
W. Lamson
B. H. Penhallow
Mrs. J. E. Cox
L. U. Robbins
John Wentworth
Charles W. Martin
E. W. Ball
Cooley & Dauchey
P. L. Cook
Folder 7 Correspondence 1877-1879
Poem “I am Better Now” in memory of Mrs. C. P. H. 1877
W. P. Stinnett
James R. Stanwood
James R. Stanwood
— Albee
E. Duncan Sniffen
Samuel W. Blunt
James Sutton
Horace E. Seaward
H. P. Hubbard
L. A. Bruce
Wells, Richardson & Co.
N. L. Patten
Mrs. J. H. Fergusson
N. E. Reid
C. Leighton
John Austin Stevens (Magazine of American History)
Orange Judd Company (Office of the American Agriculturalist)
Henry Bill Publishing Company
T. F. Moore
Folder 8 Correspondence January 1880
Henry, Johnson & Lord
Charles Marcatte
George Lingard (The Aloine Publishing Company)
B. J. Kimball & Co.
W. F. Smart (Dickinson Foundry)
E. W. Barnes
Mary E. Salter
W. H. Alexander
G. B. Cook (North Berwick Times)
John P. Cate
A. C. Hardy (Provident Mutual Relief Association)
Mrs. S. E. Cotton
H. P. Hubbard
W. H. Alexander (Concord Railroad and Branches)
S. B. P. Company
James R. Stanwood
— S. Nowell
S. R. Niles
Joseph Spinney
S. Kelley
G. C. Hilpert
M. Carney (Grocers & Wholesale Liquor Dealers)
Samuel F. Cobb
H. C. Burnes
George E. Sanborn
Mrs. Hosea Crane
Orange Judd
Woodbury Langdon
N. W. Ayer & Son Advertising
J. L. Smith
William B. Holbrook
Lewis W. Brewster
Z. S. Wallingford (Cocheco Manufacturing Company)
Carter, Rice & Company
Robert N. Tullock
L. Candee & Co. Rubber Boots and Shoes
F. W. Scott Newspaper Advertising Agents
L. S. Foster Stationary
E. E. Ordway
Dauchy & Co. Printers’ Warehouse and Advertising Agency
Locke & Hurd
William B. Holbrook
B. J. Kendall
John Blunt
Pickering, G. E.
O. S. Brown (Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co.)
James W. Teagan
S. M. Pettengill & Co. Advertising Agency
L. E. Caswell (Abram French & Co.)
George Lingard (The Aldine Publishing Co.)
James R. Stanwood
Vanrey & Griswold (Fairmont Cottage)
W. H. Brewster’s death announcement
Folder 9 Correspondence February 1880
Joshua Brooks & Co.
J. S. Nicholson
W. P. Stinnett
Carter Rice and Company
Frank & Flamant
H. H. Warner & Co.
Dauchy & Company Printers’ Warehouse & Advertisement Agency
Dauchy & Co.
G. B. G.
Merchants Advertising Agency
H. P. Hubbard
Marvin Bros. & Bartlett Cod Liver Oil
J. B. Greene
Fred D. Nowell
Calvin Hale (Dover National Bank)
Wallace B. Fenn
J. S. Nicholson (The Central Illinoian)
Charles W. Folsom
Claremont Manufacturing Company
Carter, Rice & Co.
B. G. Mudge
C. A. Lyman
Edward S. Marshall
T. B. Atkins
John Chapman
G. B. Fifield
E. S. Badger
Hubbards Advertising Agency
S. M. Merrill
J. H. Bates Advertising Agent
J. H. Bates
Thomas L. Tullock
Isaac H. Brown
Folder 10 Correspondence March 1880-April 1880
Baker, Pratt & Co.
L. W. Brewster
A. S. Manson (Potter, Ainsworth & Co)
Lydia E. Pinkham (Vegetable Compound)
H. P. Hubbard
F. A. Packard Paper Warehouse
Carter, Rice & Co.
Alva H. Morrill
J. B. Green
Rice, Kendall & Co.
S. D. Warren
Dauchy & Co. Advertising Agency
Dauchy & Co. (from Lewis Brewster)
Charles H. Ladd (Galveston and Sherman)
J. S. H. Frink
H. M. Cable (Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives)
A. L. Clarke & Co. Bankers
N. W. Ayer & Son Advertising Agents
E. E. Cummings
R. L. Low Navy Department
Edward O. Lord (Free Press Publishing Company)
L. E. Caswell (Abram French & Co.)
Carter, Rice & Co.
A. P. YeatonMrs. H. Crane
E. R. Chadbourn
George B. Cook
H. P. Hubbard
S. C. Merrill
James Elverson
William Hale
— Albee
Mr. Steven Hart
Oliver G. Fernald
E. S. Tobey
Dauchy & Co. to Lewis Brewster
MacKenzie, Phillips & Co.
New England Type Foundry Co.
N. W. Ayer & Sons Advertising Agency
Potter, Ainsworth & Co. School Book Publishers
J. M. Lamson
Chicago & North-Western Railway Company
State Reform School, Manchester, NH
Thomas Nowell
A. S. Manson (Potter, Ainsworth & Co.)
Brewster & Graves
H. L. Currin (Biddeford Machine Works)
Joseph W. Marden
J. W. Penhallow
Walter N. Weeks
H. R. Davis (Daily Journal and Evening Bulletin)
H. L. Currin (Biddeford Machine Works)
H. K. W. Hall Paper Store
Henry M. Bunt
H. P. Hubbard Newspaper Advertising Agent
Custom’s House Portsmouth
T. S. Nowell
B. J. Kendall & Co.
A. F. Jenness
H. H. Warner & Company
Folder 11 Correspondence May 1880-August 1880
Boston Type Foundry
A. Seavey
J. Clement Smith
N. P. Mann
J. W. Bartlett (National News Bureau)
N. R. Goss
James R. Stanwood
Abram French & Co.
Eastern Railroad Company
H. McE. Kimball
T. S. Nowell
Susie N. Yeaton
J. W. Kent (Russell House)
J. W. Kent (Plankinton House)
S. K. Abbott
Carter, Rice & Company
W. S. Stevens (Wiggin & Stevens)
S. R. Niles Newspaper Advertising Agency
Miss Susan Tuck
H. H. Warner & Co.
Dr. Rhodes Electric Tranfusing Battery
Fred Myron Colby
Carter, Rice & Co.
F. R. Robinson
H. P. Hubbard Advertising Agency
Critchley & Whalley Machinists
F. M. Colby
R. D. Mason
Clara F. Clark (State Normal School)
F. W. Robinson
James R. Stanwood
George Stinson Art Publishers
Carter, Rice & Company
Amariah Storrs & Co. Card Boards Fancy Papers
T. L. James
C. W. Goddard
Carter, Rice & Company
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary
M. W. Waldron
George Fredson
Appledore House
S. S. Nowell
W. H. Brewster
Carter, Rice & Company
W. D. Swett
J. C. Ayer
E. R. Chadborn
Edward C. Riddle (Farragut & Atlantic Houses, Rye Beach Athletic Association)
Z. Haven (letter to from Lewis Brewster)
C. G. Conner (Clerk of Rockingham Supreme Court)
Carter, Rice & Company
Willis L. Hidden
L. C. Merrill
S. B. Childs
George P. Rowell Newspaper Advertising Bureau
Nathaniel Head
Oaks A. Ames, Oliver Amesm and Frank M. Ames
H. H. Warner & Company
Folder 12 Correspondence September 1880-December 1880
Pulsifer, Jordan & Wilson Paper Warehouse
Melvin & Badger
George Stinson & Co. Publishers
S. M. Pettengill & Co.
Anna Nelson Libby
Jeremiah P. Hooper Temperance Missionary
H. H. Warner & Co.
Laighton Brother’s (Appledore House)
M. L. Sheafe
Walworth Manufacturing Co.
Eastern Railroad Co.
Alfred F. Howard
James T. Drown (Atlantic National Bank of Boston)
T. S. Nowell
Z. S. Wallingford
O. S. Brown (Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company)
Williametta Coun
L. C. Root
Henry St. Huse (Republican State Committee)
Charles R. Hill
Charles Marsilles (The Kingston Daily Freeman)
Alfred — (no last name)
T. S. Nowell
U. S. Marine Corp
Ward & Biddulph Paper
Z. S. Wallingford (Cocheco Manufacturing Company)
J. W. Hall (Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company)
B. J. Kendall
J. W. Easbry (Navy Department)
Theresa M. Marston
C. Y. Hudson & Co.
Luther Tucker & Son
Mrs. H. C. Barnabee
Charles L. Rhoades (Young Men’s Christian Association)
H. H. Warner & Co.
Science Observer
S. C. Merrill
Melvin & Badger Druggists & Apothecaries
B. P. Shillaber
T. S. Newell
W. H. Yeaton
John R. Ham
Susie H. Yeaton
E. C. Fisker
H. Burns (New York Print Works)
William H. Hackett
Pierce & Son Machine Sewn Slippers
Charles E. Blunt
C. E. Blunt (Office of Lighthouse Engineer, Portland, Maine)
Rice, Kendell & Co. Paper Warehouse
H. Lawrence
Charles C. Ford’s Advertising Agency
Goodwillie, Wyman & Company
C. A. Leveridge
Susan Allie Norton
A. A. Knight
Locke & Hunt
J. H. Johnson
Presley Blakiston Publisher, Bookseller & Importer
Folder 13 Correspondence 1880
Yeaton Walker & Company
The Scientific American
Preble’s History of the Flag of the United States
Folder 14 Correspondence undated
Folder 15 Correspondence undated
Folder 16 Bills 1877
Folder 17 Personal Papers 1868 and undated
Equitable Life Assurance Society Annual Dividend Notice
Piscataqua Pioneers Nomination for Membership