Scope and Contents
Series I. Correspondence is organized into three subseries: Family Correspondence, Business Correspondence and Third Party Correspondence. Family Correspondence consists primarily of letters from William Wright's brother-in-law, Eugene A. Sessions. According to a letter he wrote in 1898, Sessions was a proprietor of a grocery and supply store in Portland, Oregon. His letters to his sister and her husband, mostly addressed to the latter, describe mining investment opportunities in the mining district around St. Helens, and trace Session's career as a mining investor and entrepreneur and the increasing financial involvement of the Wrights in his ventures. Sessions' letters also discuss the growth and financial state of his mining and other business enterprises, which included the Cascadia Mining and Development Co., the Levens Ledge Gold Mining Co., and the Polar Star Mining Co. Letters from Sessions to his parents in Woodstock, Illinois are also present.
Business Correspondence consists primarily of stockholder letters to the Wrights from the Cascadia Mining and Development Company and the Polar Star Mining Company as well as letters replying to William Wright's inquiries about these corporations in the 1930s. Third Party Correspondence includes letters reporting on E. A. Sessions's mining properties in the St. Helens Mining District as well as two letters written by Henry E. Wright concerning his father's financial interests in corporations in the area.
Series II. Printed Materials consists of prospectuses and brochures for the Cascadia Mining and Development Company and the Levens Ledge Gold Mining Company of Portland, Oregon.
Series III. Personal Papers is organized into Financial and Legal Papers and Other Papers. Other Papers includes newspaper clippings, a map of the St. Helens Mining District, and a phone book containing birth and death dates for members of the Sessions and Wright families.
Series IV. Photographs consists of three photographs by James H. Eaton: "Soda Springs Camp", a captioned image picturing pack animals, men, and one woman in June 1897; "Minnie Lee", an image of the entrance of the Minnie Lee mine; and "Polar Star", an image of four unidentified miners in front of the entrance of the Polar Star mine. An uncaptioned mounted photograph by J. A. Meiser of two loggers sitting in the cleft of a tree they've nearly sawn through is also present.
Dates
- 1897 - 1954
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Overview
WILLIAM H. WRIGHT (1857-1939)
The Wrights had a son, Henry E. Wright. William H. Wright died on August 16, 1937.
- Cascadia Mining and Development Company
- Copper mines and mining -- Washington (State) -- St. Helens Mining District
- Gold mines and mining -- Oregon -- Douglas County
- Gold mines and mining -- Washington (State) -- St. Helens Mining District
- Levens Ledge Gold Mining Company
- Loggers -- Washington (State)
- Maps (documents) -- Washington (State) -- Saint Helens Mining District
- Miners -- Washington (State)
- Miners -- Washington (State)
- Mines and mineral resources -- Washington (State) -- St. Helens Mining District
- Photographic prints -- Washington (State) -- Saint Helens Mining District
- Polar Star Mining Company
- Prospectuses -- Washington (State) -- Saint Helens Mining District -- 20th Century
- Saint Helens Mining District (Wash.)
- Saint Helens Mining District (Wash.) -- Maps
- Sessions, E. A. (Eugene A.)
- Silver mines and mining -- Washington (State) -- St. Helens Mining District
- Stockholders -- United States
- Stockholders -- United States
- Wright, Ella R., 1857-1939
- Wright, Henry E.
- Wright, William H., 1854-1937
- Title
- Guide to the William H. Wright Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Kathleen T. Burns
- Date
- July 2006
- Description rules
- Beinecke Manuscript Unit Archival Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
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