Death and survival in the city: Approaches to the history of disease

Urban History

Volumn 7, Issue , 1980, Pages 53-62

  Luckin, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84976114171     PISSN: 09639268     EISSN: 14698706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S096392680000451X     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Harold D. Woodman, “Sequel to Slavery: The New History Views the South,” The Journal of Southern History, XLIII (1977), 523–554;
2. Gilbert C. Fite, “Southern Agriculture since the Civil War: An Overview,” Agricultural History, 53 (1979), 3-21.
3. Harold D. Woodman, King Cotton and his Retainers: Financing and Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925 (Lexington, Kentucky, 1968) is mostly concerned with the interior marketing system.
4. John R. Killick, “The Cotton Operations of Alexander Brown and Sons in the Deep South, 1820-1880,” The Journal of Southern History, XLIII (May, 1977), 169-194.
5. Morton Rothstein, “Antebellum Wheat and Cotton Exports: A Contrast in Marketing Organization and Economic Development,” Agricultural History, 40 (1966), 91–100, gives the traditional point of view.
6. Robert Bouilly, “The Development of American Cotton Exchanges, 1870-1916” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, 1975), 28-38.
7. Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation (Cambridge, England, 1977), 12-13, 106-170.
8. W. McKee Evans, Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1966), 176-210.
9. Alexander Sprunt and Son to the Hon. Judson Clements, Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington D.C., November 6, 1908.
10. Ibid.
11. James Sprunt, Information and Statistics respecting Wilmington, North Carolina: Being a Report by the President of the Produce Exchange, Presented to its Members, April 1883. (Wilmington, N.C., 1883), 143-145.
12. Minutes of the Meetings of the Stockholders and of the Board of Directors of the Champion Compress and Warehouse Company, June 6, 1878.
13. Sprunt, Information and Statistics, 144.
14. James Sprunt, A Tribute from the City of Wilmington (Wilmington, N.C., 1925), 39;
15. Minutes of… the Champion Compress, April 9, 1911.
16. Minutes of… the Champion Compress, September 13, 1892.
17. Alexander Sprunt and Son to the Hon. Judson Clements, November 6, 1908.
18. James Sprunt, A Tribute, 24–25;
19. Annual General Meeting of the Champion Compress and Warehouse Company, July 3, 1881;
20. Minutes of… the Champion Compress, 1878-1911, Vol. 150.
21. Sprunt, Information and Statistics, 98.
22. James Sprunt, Chronicles of the Cape Fear River (Raleigh, N.C., 1914), 501.
23. Registers of British Ships entering Wilmington, 1873-1910;
24. Registers of Ships and Cargoes, 1897-1915, Vol. 144.
25. W. H. Sprunt: Notebook, 1887, on businessmen in North Carolina and South Carolina, File 6083.
26. Alexander Sprunt and Son to the Hon. Judson Clements, November 6, 1908.
27. File 6000, Private Letterpress Book, 1893-1900 (especially correspondence with Messrs. Laird and Gray of New York). Laird and Gray were the New York agents of the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
28. Ibid., October 7, 1893.
29. Ibid., September 12, 1896.
30. James Sprunt, A Tribute, 35.
31. Alexander Sprunt and Son to the Hon. Judson Clements, November 6, 1908.
32. John D. Sprunt, Alexander Sprunt‘s third son, represented them in London in the 1870s and early 1880s and according to William Sprunt’s son, Dr. Douglas H. Sprunt of Memphis, Tennessee, very likely involved them in damaging timber speculations.
33. Addition, dated April 15, 1886 to partnership agreement of April 16, 1884.
34. Alexander Sprunt and Son to Messrs. Laird and Gray, New York, April 1, 1893.
35. Correspondence and other papers, December 1903 --- May 1904.
36. Alexander Sprunt and Son to John Milligan, Liverpool, October 21, 1904. File 6051, “Private Letter File, 1904-1905 (Especially correspondence with Liverpool agent).”
37. Partnership Agreements, June 4, 1904 and June 3, 1908.
38. Alexander Sprunt and Son to John Milligan, February 14, 1905. File 6051.
39. Alexander Sprunt and Son to J. Milligan, October 21 and October 29, 1904. File 6051.
40. File 6327, “Notes and correspondence from trip to Europe in May-July, 1922, by Alexander and W. H. Sprunt.” The following paragraphs are mainly based on this journal.
41. See Sprunt Vol. 189, Letter Books of the Bremen Branch, especially between the branch and Frederick Huth & Co., and the German Bank of London, 1909-1911, and Vol. 190, especially between the branch and König Brothers, London, 1909-1913.
42. Alexander Sprunt and Son to the Hon. Judson Clements, November 6, 1908.
43. Ibid.
44. William H. Sprunt, Le Havre, to James Sprunt, Wilmington, June 7, 1922. File 6327.
45. See File 7319, “Houston property, 1912,” and regular comments in Sprunt, Vol. 1, Minutes of Meetings of Stockholders and Board of Directors of Alexander Sprunt and Son, 1919-30.
46. This paragraph is mostly based on a Supreme Court case, Alexander Sprunt and Son Inc., et al. v. United States, 281 U.S. 249 (1929). The case involved the effect of railroad rate differentials in Texas on cotton shipments.
47. James Sprunt, A Tribute, passim; I am indebted to Dr. Douglas H. Sprunt of Memphis, Tennessee, for character portraits of his father and uncle.
48. Information from Douglas H. Sprunt.
49. Sprunt, Vol. 120, Register of Cotton Buyers, 1897-1921, lists between 75 and 100 cotton buyers nearly every year between 1900 and 1914.
50. Alston H. Garside, Cotton Goes to Market: A Graphic Description of a Great Industry (New York, 1935), 187-205.
51. This account of the McFaddens is based on several undated typescript memoranda in the historical file in the firm's offices in Memphis, Tennessee, which describe its major branches and activities, and on Roger L. Dixon, The Cotton Bonanza, 1870-1950, By a Participant, 1908-1960 (Privately printed, Dallas, Texas, 1973).
52. For Anderson-Clayton, see Ellen Clayton Garwood, Will Clayton : A Short Biography (Austin, Texas, 1958)
53. Lamar Fleming, “Growth of the Business of Anderson-Clayton & Co.,” James A. Tinsley ed., in Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association Publications Series, 10 (1966), and several unpublished typescript histories of the firm in their offices in Houston, Texas.