Correspondence, accounts, journals maps, etc., documenting Bissett’s career with the Hudson’s Bay Company. The Photostats (in C.1 and C.2) include Bissett’s journal and accounts at the Red River, 1854-1855, and a journal “Lachine to the Sandwich Islands” 1858-1859. There are also journals for 1859 and 1867. The original documents (in C.3) include correspondence with the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1858-1875, and accounts, 1860-1873. There are Bissett’s commissions as Chief Trader (1858) and as Chief Factor (1872), and a list of Chief Traders and Factors, 1855-1879. There are also some plans / maps, sketches, and photographs including a sketch of the Hudson’s Bay Post at Honolulu, ca. 1860.

This material comprises a copy of a family book and of a genealogy of Andrew Drummond, ca 1900.

File contains 1 autograph letter signed. Includes correspondence with Bowdler Sharpe.

The collection, previously held at McGill University, contains a significant amount of information concerning the latter years of Napoleon’s reign (between approximately 1810-1815), with documents relating to the Armistice at Pleswitz and the diplomatic negotiations surrounding the Treaty of Fontainebleau, including records of day-to-day negotiations concerning Pleswitz and Fontainebleau. Diplomatic dealings between Metternich and Caulaincourt are also heavily represented. Folder 17 contains an unpublished description of the post-Waterloo Hundred Days by Caulaincourt. Caulaincourt recounts a broad narrative from the defeat at Waterloo to the Bourbon Restoration, including important descriptions of the question of succession and of the final push made by the Allies to restore Louis XVIII to the throne.

File contains 4 autograph letters signed. Includes correspondence with Robert Ridgway.

File contains 5 autograph letters signed, 2 autograph notes signed. Includes correspondence with Robert Ridgway.

File contains 3 autograph letters signed. Includes correspondence with - (Faculté des Sciences de Lille).

File contains 1 autograph letter signed. Includes correspondence with Bowdler Sharpe.

File contains 2 typed letters signed. Includes correspondence with Dr. Casey A Wood.

File contains 4 autograph letters signed. Includes correspondence with Rupert Jones, Bowdler Sharpe.