Abstract The Hiram C. Holmes is housed in ten document boxes. The first five boxes contain general business bills, accounts, receipts, and other documents, chronologically arranged by month and year. Boxes 6-8 contain all the correspondence, mostly incoming, found in the collection. Arranged chronologically by day, month, and year, it has also been further organized into letters from the three companies Holmes did most of his business; papers concerning efforts to patent an improvement in gear axle...

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Included in the collection are balance statements, checkbooks and cancelled checks, interbanking transactions, ledgers and journals, minutes of directors' meetings, receipts, reports, stock records, tax returns, and records of the bank's activity with the Joseph Lawrence Free Public Hospital. Only a small portion of the material pertains directly to the whaling industry.