Scope and Contents From the Series: Business records comprise correspondence, account books, bills and receipts, legal documents, and other records relating to the various and extensive business dealings of the Burr-Allyne family, especially Ephraim Willard Burr (E. W. Burr), John Allyne, and Edmund Coffin Burr (E. C. Burr), from the 1840s to the 1920s. E. W. Burr’s business records (1844-1910) include account books, receipts, tax bills and other papers documenting the ship Henry Tuke (1849),...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Writings and personalia include a variety of personal materials belonging to members of the Burr, Allyne, and Overstreet families, including personal writings, journals, travel diaries, scrapbooks, sketches, sketchbooks, personal expense lists, yearbooks, and diplomas. Much of the material consists of writings and personalia related to Alice and Marian Burr’s travels in Africa and Asia from 1929-1930, including Alice Burr’s The Incomplete Guide to Africa...