Sellman Family Papers, Series 1, Box 1, Folder 3: To Benjamin Harrison from Benjamin Harwood, 1853

The Sellman Family Papers span the years 1828 through 1908 with the bulk of the material dating between 1850 and 1865. The collection contains family and business correspondence; bills and receipts; guardianship documents; handwriting exercises; and household and farm account books and diaries. Subjects covered include daily life; farm management; the cholera epidemic in Grand Gulf, Mississippi; treatment of slaves; sale of crops in Baltimore; and the education of the Sellman children at home and at St. John's College in Annapolis. For more information, please see the full finding aid at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1770