Fonds MSG 1112 - Robert Abraham Fonds

The fonds contains business documents relating to the sale of the Montreal Gazette to Robert Abraham in 1843, letters written by Robert Abraham to several recipients, including his father and his brother, letters written to Robert Abraham by Thomas Carrick and John Gibson, copies of letters to family members, on subjects such as books, science, family history, and the local (Liverpool) government. There are also letters to the editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal on the subject of chloroform, and to editors of the Manchester Guardian and The Times newspapers, on subjects including decimal coinage and local cholera deaths. It also contains letters written or received by John Abraham and Thomas Abraham, newspaper clippings and offprints written by, or on the subject of, Robert Abraham, a cutting of Robert Abraham’s obituary, taken from the Montreal Transcript, letters from family and friends of Robert Abraham and documents and letters relating to a duel between Vane and MacDougall.