Box 8

Scope and Contents Letters discuss canals, roads, and banks. Some materials on education (especially the Carroll Academy) and the sale of slaves. A long series of letters from B. Deford and Sons of Baltimore to Andrew K. Shriver about the leather business and the Shrivers' tannery starting in the mid-1850s. Henry Wirt Shriver corresponds frequently with his brother, Frederick Austin Shriver and his father, Andrew K. Shriver, while in Philadelphia learning the shoe business; Wirt also comments on the general...