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Robert Garrett & Sons Inc. Papers 1818-1964, MS. 2089
Maryland Historical Society
Library of Maryland History
Robert Garrett & Sons, Inc. Papers, 1818-1964
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Robert Garrett & Sons, Inc. Papers, 1818-1964
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Robert Garrett & Sons, Inc. Papers, 1818-1964
MS. 2089
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore MD 21201-4674
Inventory
MS. 2089 is (as of August 20, 1996) located on the lower mezzanine of the library in stacks 115 and 116. The collection will remain there until such time as an addition to manuscripts storage is constructed. All volumes have tags denoting their contents; some of these tags are visible from stack 115 and some from 116. The following list starts at the wall end of the stacks and moves from top to bottom of each range.
Shelf List
Stack 115,
Range 1
Shelf 1
Eutaw House Daily Receipts, 1862-1863
Eutaw House Departure Book, 1852-1853
Eutaw House Departure Book, 1856-1857
Eutaw House Register 1862
Eutaw House Register 1860
Ledger 1908-1911
Private Ledger #
Eutaw House Transient Book, 1860
Eutaw House Departure Book, 1865-1867
Eutaw House Transient Book, 1864-1865
Shelf 2
Eutaw House Transient Book, 1863-1864
General Ledger # 20
General Ledger # 23
General Ledger # 24
General Ledger # 21
General Ledger # 22
Eutaw House Register, 1851
Eutaw House Register, 1850-1851
Eutaw House Register, 1849
Private Ledger #9A
Eutaw House Register, 1852-1853
Eutaw House Register, 1856
Eutaw House Register, 1862-1863
Ledger W.I.T. Co, vol. I
Shelf 3
Eutaw House Register, 1859-1860
Cash Book # 12 ser. v
Purchase Journal # 11
Cash Book #7 ser. v
Boarder's Ledger
Eutaw House Cash Book, 1854-1855
Eutaw House Cash Book, 1852
Ledger 1856-1859
Ledger 1859-1860
Ledger 1859-1860
Eutaw House Day Book
Academy of Music Record Book
Academy of Music Record Book
Academy of Music Record Book
Howard House Ledger
Cash Book
Eutaw House? Cash Book, 1863-1864
Eutaw House? Cash Book, 1856
Eutaw House? Cash Book, 1858-1859
Eutaw House? Cash Book, B, 1861-1862
Eutaw House? Inventory of Furniture
Eutaw House? Cash Book, 1859-1861
Eutaw House? Cash Book, 1859
Shelf 4
Eutaw House Daily Receipts, 1861-1862
Eutaw House Daily Receipts, 1865-1866
Cash Book #8
Pay Roll 1948-1957
Receipts #10
MS. 2089 Box 1
Eutaw House E Cash Book, 1864
Eutaw House E Daily Receipts, 1859-1861
Shelf 5
Cash Book #10 ser.v
Cash Book #5 ser.v
International House
Eutaw House Bill Book
Eutaw House Bill Book
MS. 2089 Box 3
Cash Book #1 ser. vi
Cash Book #13 ser. v
Howard House Departure Book
Eutaw House Register, 1865
Eutaw House Register, 1864-1865
Shelf 6
Cash Book #4 ser. v
Eutaw House Register 1862-1863
Eutaw House Transient Book, 1860
Eutaw House Transient Book, 1862-1863
Cash Book #2 ser. v
Cash Book #4 ser. vi
Cash Book #2 ser. vi
Stack 115,
Range 2
Shelf 7
General Journal #6
Ledger 1913-1915
Purchase Journal #19
General Journal #4
Shelf 8
Receipts #2 ser vii
Receipts #6
Receipts #18
Ledger, Family A.W. Garrett
Accounts, Robert Garrett Farm
Ledger 1905-1918
Purchase Journal #16
Disbursements #22
Disbursements #17
Shelf 9
Receipts #32
Disbursements #27
Receipts #27
Receipts #24
Receipts #34
General Ledger #8
Receipts #33
Shelf 10
Eutaw House Store Room
Receipts #26
Receipts #25
Receipts #31
Disbursements #28
Collaterals
Day Book #A ser. v
Day Book #A ser. vi
MS. 2089 Box 2
Receipts #29
Receipts #39
Disbursements #30
Disbursements #29
Disbursements #42
Disbursements #41
Disbursements #31
Shelf 11
Day Book #2
Disbursements #35
Disbursements #36
Day Book #1
Sales Journal #16
Disbursements #37
Sales Journal #19
Sales Journal #20
Day Book 1886-1927
Stock Book #3
Stock Book #1
“Box” #1
Sales Journal #26
Sales Journal #25
Sales Journal #28
Sales Journal #21
Shelf 12
Sales Journal #24
Sales Journal #23
#31
#32
Sales Journal #27
General Ledger #5
Sales Journal #29
Sales Journal #30
Securities Record R.G. & Sons
Stock Book
Disbursements #25
General Ledger #6
General Ledger #3
Stack 115,
Range 3
Shelf 13
Receipts #14
Property Book
Receipts #17
Ledger 1876-1879
Shelf 14
Disbursements #21
Receipts #42
Receipts #45
Receipts #37
Receipts #41
Disbursements #12
Disbursements #14
Shelf 15
Account Book
Receipts & Disbursements
Disbursements #23
Private Ledger #5
Disbursements #6
Disbursements #2 ser. vii
Disbursements #34
Disbursements #33
Shelf 16
Disbursements #9
Receipts #36
Receipts #35
Receipts #38
Receipts #16
Purchase Journal #17
Purchase Journal #23
Shelf 17
Cash Book #18
Cash Book #16
Eutaw House Wine List 1863
Eutaw House Cash Book
Account Book 1837-1839
Cash Book
List of Stockholders
Eutaw House Wine List 1860-1862
Eutaw House Wine List 1856
Eutaw House Wine List 1863-1866
Ledger 1859-1865
Cash Book
Cash Book #19
Shelf 18
Purchase Journal #14
Purchase Journal #12
Howard House Register
Ledger, Family Mary F. Jacobs 1904-1911
Ledger, Family Horatio W. Garrett
General Private Ledger #1
Stack 116,
Range 1
Shelf 1
Eutaw House Departure Book, 1862
Private Ledger #6
Day Book W.I.T. Co.
Eutaw House Transient Book, 1863
Eutaw House Transient Book, 1861
Private Ledger #4
Ledger 1900
Shelf 2
Securities Records, J.W.G.
Securities Records, C.D.G.
Securities Records, R.G.
Cash Book #3 ser. v
Cash Book #6 ser. v
Eutaw House Transient Book, 1862
Shelf 3
Eutaw House Departure Book, 1860-1861
Eutaw House Departure Book, A, 1858-1860
Cash Book #1 ser. v
Howard House Account Book
Shelf 4
Eutaw House Cash Book, 1864
Receipts #13
Receipts #15
Pay Roll 1929-1949
Pay Roll 1916-1928
Blue Folder 1926, January
Letterbook
Letterbook
Eutaw House Daily Receipts, 1863
Eutaw House Daily Receipts, 1864-1865
Letterbook
Eutaw House C 1862-1864
Shelf 5
Blue Folder 1924, January
Blue Folder 1925, June
Ledger 1840-1856
Cash Book #14 ser.v
Eutaw House Register 1864
Cash Book #11 ser. v
Howard House Register
Shelf 6
Eutaw House Register 1854
Cash Book #5 ser. v
Eutaw House Register 1853
Eutaw House Register 1863-1864
MS. 2089.1
Ledger, Estate of T. Harrison Garrett
Cash Book #20
Eutaw House Register 1861-1862
Eutaw House Register 1863
Stack 116,
Range 2
Shelf 7
Receipts #19
Private Journal #2
Purchase Journal #22
Purchase Journal #25
Private Journal #1
Purchase Journal #21
Purchase Journal #20
Purchase Journal #18
Receipts #4
Receipts #7
General Journal #5
Purchase Journal #26
Purchase Journal #24
General Journal #7
General Journal #3
Shelf 8
Receipts #22
Receipts #21
Receipts #9
Receipts #20
Receipts #8
Receipts #23
Receipts #1 ser. vii
Receipts #3 ser. vii
Disbursements #3 ser. vii
Disbursements #19
Disbursements #4
Disbursements #10
Shelf 9
Disbursements #40
Disbursements #38
Disbursements #26
Receipts #28
Account Book #7
Ledger A, Family A.W. Garrett
Eutaw House Accounts 1859-1862
General Ledger #9
General Ledger #2
General Ledger #1
General Ledger #16
General Ledger #7
Shelf 10
Receipts #30
Disbursements #32
Shelf 11
Sales Journal #15
Ledger, Family J.W.G.
Sales Journal #22
Shelf 12
“Box” #2
General Ledger #4
Stack 116,
Range 3
Shelf 13
Receipts #5
Cash Book #7
Receipts #12
Receipts #11
General Journal #2
Eutaw House D Cash Book 1865-1866
Cash Book #8
Cash Book #3
Cash Book #1
Cash Book #4
Cash Book #5
Cash Book #9
Cash Book #2
Shelf 14
Disbursements #1 ser. vii
Disbursements #15
#18
#20
#7
#16
Ledger, Family R.G. 1896-1904
Day Book 1900-1901
Receipts #40
Disbursements #8
Disbursements #13
Disbursements #5
Receipts #46
Shelf 15
Receipts #49
Disbursements #39
General Ledger #19
General Ledger #17
General Ledger #14
Eutaw House Expenses?
Receipts #43
Disbursements #24
General Ledger #15
General Ledger #18
Shelf 16
Disbursements #11
Receipts #44
Receipts #50
Receipts #48
Receipts #47
Ledger 1874-1879
General Journal #1
General Ledger #11
General Ledger #10
General Ledger #13
General Ledger #12
Shelf 17
Family Ledger 1896
Cash Book #17
Cash Book #11
Cash Book #6
Accounts, Robert Garrett Farm
Eutaw House Wine List 1864-1865
Eutaw House Wine List 1859-1861
Cash Book #9 ser. v
Purchase Journal #13
Cash Book #13
Cash Book #12
Cash Book #14
Shelf 18
Report of Condition 1918-1919
Report of Condition 1916-1917
Purchase Journal #15
Cash Book
Eutaw House Register 1866
Eutaw House Register 1865
Eutaw House Register 1864
Private Ledger #8A
Eutaw House Transient Book 1865
Eutaw House Register 1861
Cash Book #3 ser. vi
Eutaw House Departure Book 1863-1864
Eutaw House Departure Book 1864-1865
Cash Book
Purchase Journal #1 ser vii
BOARDERS' LEDGER
1 vol.
1859-1861
ACCOUNT BOOK
1 vol.
1880-1899
ACCOUNT BOOK # 7
1 vol.
1886-1896
DAY BOOKS (the first from an organization whose treasurer was Robert Garrett)
2 vols.
1886-1927
This may be from the Maryland Academy of Music.
1900-1901
THREE FILE BOXES
Same
BOX 1
Williams, Harold A. Robert Garrett & Sons, Incorporated Origin and Development, 1840-1965. Baltimore, 1965.
(History of the firm written to mark its 125th anniversary.)
Correspondence - also, memos, accounts, receipts, plats, etc.
1810s
Business of Robert Garrett with John and Jacob Stouffer.
1820s
None.
1830s
Samuel Lippincott of Dougall to Robert Garrett & Co., accounts and receipts. Articles of Agreement (lease) between Davis F. Morrice and Owen Saxton.
1840s
Letters 1843-44, from William Buckler, concerning the purchase of gensing and cassia in the Orient, to be shipped in the “Lurman” and other ships. Correspondence, 1845-46, about arrangements for the newly-acquired Eutaw House, especially about engaging Hiram Cranston and Henry F. Jackson to run it, and Charles H. Miller as landlord. Other correspondents are Jacob Albert and Robert Lemmon.
1850s
Writers include W[illia]m G[ilpin] Harrison, J[ohn] W[ork] Garrett, Eli T[odd] Tappan, and Samuel Riggs.
1860s
Correspondence with Augustus Taber about a shipment of marble; other letters about the design of a new organ for “Mr. Leyburn's church.”
1870s
Letter from E.A. Dalrymple [Rev. Edwin Augustus Dalrymple?]
1880s
Correspondence about property known as the “Patapsco River, Curtis's Creek, and Stone House Cove water fronts;” writers include William M. Pegram and W.N. Bolling, engineer of the B & O. Plats. Correspondence about and plats of other properties. Letters from D[aniel] C[oit] Gilman and B[asil] L[anneau] Gildersleeve about etchings and prints owned by T. Harrison Garrett; letters from T. Harrison Garrett, W[illia]m S. Rayner, Joseph H. Rieman, and others.
1890s
Business correspondence and letters about prints. Writers include John W.M.Lee, Ira Remsen, and John K. Cowen, and Charles Nitze.
1900s
Letters about the installation of a battery at Evergreen by the Electric Storage Battery Co., and other business. Letters by Edward Guest Gibson and B[enjamin] H[owell] Griswold.
1910s
More letters about loaned prints and engravings. Correspondence with the International Gas Development Company; with several insurance companies about policies on the lives of James Knox and others, held as part of the estate of John W. Garrett. Other Business. One lettersis from W. Stuart Symington, Jr.
BOX 2
1920s
Correspondence with the Fidelity and Deposit Co. of Maryland about bond and burglary insurance. Letter from Mary F. Jacobs about her account.
1930s
Correspondence concerning taxes paid (and not paid) by Massachusetts Chain Store Terminals, Inc. Letter from Gathman Research, Incorporated, about selling a license. Memorandum re Paintings at office of Robert Garrett & Sons, April 25, 1939 (portraits of various Garretts and of Charles Nitze).
1932, Nov. 11.
Harvey, F. Barton, of Chesapeake Insurance Agency, Inc. to George D. List, National Distributing Properties, Inc. Enclosed, four insurance policies from the Eagle Fire [Insurance] Company of New York.
1940s
Correspondence about conveying to the city 33 1/2 acres of Uplands (country estate of Robert Garrett and Mary Frick Jacobs) for a public park near Edmondson Ave., the grantors being the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Maryland, and The Robert Garrett Fund for the Surgical Treatment of Children.
1950s
One folder containing material on National Distributing Properties, Inc.; and the dissolution of the R.D. Brown Building Corporation, George D. List, President (1951), and of Massachusetts Chain Store Terminals, Inc. (1953). Three folders containing letters, memos, and notes (not in chronological order) about a proposed office building for the B & O Railroad Company. Many of the memos concern the benefits to be expected, with descriptions of the actual experience of various companies which had moved into new quarters, or renovated old ones. Writers include Auville Eager of Robert Garrett & Sons, Walter L. Price, Vice-President of the B & O, and Harold C. Pennicke, Management Counsel.
1951, Jan. 2.
“Proposed Consolidated Office Building for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.” (Report) Submitted by Robert Garrett & Sons.
1952, Jan. 28.
Survey for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.... prepared by Robert Garrett & Sons.
1960s
Correspondence and report on the Super Markets Operating Co.
BOX 3
1851-1856.
Four small account books of R. Garrett & Sons, two with King & Hiss, one with John Vaughan & Co., and one with King & Huppman.
1855, Oct. 30.
Opinion of Reverdy Johnson in regard to three directors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company calling a meeting in case of refusal by the President. In the same folder, copy of “Bylaws and Rules & Regulations of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road Company”; notice of a meeting of the President and Directors; notes on stockholders' meetings; notes for a directors' meeting (?).
1872, April 1.
Articles of Copartnership, John W. Garrett, Robert Garrett, T. Harrison Garrett.
Wills -
1849, April 28. Robert Garrett (the Elder). Two copies, one typed, one handwritten and attested to.
1853, August 6. Henry S. Garrett. Typed copy.
1883, Feb. 9; 1888, July 5. Robert Garrett. Attested. Copy made April 5, 1909.
1884, August 8. John W. Garrett. Typed copy.
1884, November 1. T[homas] Harrison Garrett. Two codicils. Printed copy.
1918, June 3. Trust under the Will of Robert Garrett the Elder. Statements made in Circuit Court by Alice W. Garrett, Robert Garrett, and John W. Garrett.
Robert Garrett & Sons.
Statements of Income and Profit & Loss.
Statements of Expenses.
Balance Sheets. 5 folders, 1917-1942
Miscellaneous:
N.D. Small notebook with list of goods. (Stock for a store? Bought from/by H. King from/by R. Garrett & Sons?)
1847-1852. Accounts Receivable and Payable (firm not known)
1865, Feb. 13. Howard House. Rough Statement of Affairs, Balance sheet.
1890, Aug. 14. Eutaw House. Appraisement, Furniture and Stores.
1913, Oct. 7. The Hippodrome Company. Stock Subscription Agreement; Subscriptions.
1913-1926. Maryland Academy of Music. Financial Statements, Minutes, receipt.
1931-1933. Securities Owned - Sales. Commissions, Purchases and Sales - Statement of.
J.W.Garrett, Robert Garrett - Interest on Loans and Deposits.

