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William Grant Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 432
  • Collection
  • 1792-1801

The collection contains business correspondence, including letters to William Grant and Grant, Campion & Co. from Brickwood, Pattle, & Co., 1792-1793, and letters from Brickwood & Daniell, John Blackwood, and McTavish, Fraser and Co., 1799-1800. There is also a bound letter book for Grant and Laframboise, Montreal, 1800-1801 with additional loose leaves of letter copies dating between 1798 and 1800.

Grant, William, 1743-1810

Grant and Laframboise letter book, 1800-1801

File consists of a bound manuscript letter book, missing preliminary leaves found in MSG 432-3. The letter book contains copies of correspondence signed alternately William Grant, William Grant & Co., Grant & Laframboise, or C. Laframboise. Leaves are of laid paper written in a variety of hands. Addressees of letters include Blackwood & Patterson, John Lean & Co., Brickwood & Daniell, and Thomas Coffin. Some letters include goods (for example, types of furs) and calculations. Dates of letters range from March 1800 to August 1801. The letter book was used also as a scrapbook, with transfer of ink and residue of printed pages stuck to leaves and four final leaves at end of letter book containing cut-out images pasted in. Two leaves towards the end contain accounting information and another two leaves contain a recipe for ginger beer, a poem, and a remedy for curing diseases of fruit and forest trees.

Grant and Laframboise letter book loose leaves

File consists of manuscript leaves previously bound with MSG 432-4, a letter book of correspondence signed alternately William Grant, William Grant & Co., Grant & Laframboise, or C. Laframboise. Leaves are of laid paper written in a variety of hands. Addressees of letters include Augustin Choteau, Stanbridge & Tagg, Brickwood & Daniell, John Blackwood, and McTavish, Fraser, & Co. Some letters include goods (for example, types of furs) and calculations. Dates of letters range from August 1798 to March 1800.