Abstract This collection is comprised mostly of accounts and bills, but there are some letters to Captain Spicer. Among the notable items are accounts of Charles H. Mallory & Co. including monthly trial balance sheets; a series of bills for provisioning the ship MARY L. SUTTON in San Francisco; accounts, of the owners of the ship MARY L. SUTTON, with Charles Mallory; an agreement, between Spicer and Norman Wales, Norwich, CT, concerning the employment of Wales' son, Joseph Wales, on the ship...

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The collection contains files of correspondence and other papers. In addition there are three volumes, which are diary/account books kept by James D. Fish and Herman E. Street. The collection is largely comprised of domestic correspondence between James Deane Fish, his brother and sister, his children, and other relatives and friends.