Contains copies of letters
written by Manuel Rionda y Polledo while he was away from his Wall Street
office. Most of the correspondence was written in Cuba where he spent
the winter months supervising the sugar harvest. The letters were
recorded in several formats. Letters written between 1910 and 1926
were copied in rice-paper letterbooks. Scrapbooks with
pasted letters cover the harvests of 1909 and 1910. (Additional scrapbooks
were not retained as they duplicated letters in the rice-paper letterbooks.)
A carbon copybook with letters for the harvest of 1907 was found and added
to the series in 1994. Finally, there is a rice-paper letterbook
which spans the years 1905-1913. This letterbook contains letters
written during trips, but also includes letters written from his residence
in Alpine, New Jersey and receipts for traveling expenses. With the
exception of the carbon copybook, each volume includes a name index with
the page number of each letter. A volume containing copies
of cables, received and sent, for the winter of 1925/1926 is also included
in this series.
This series complements
series 5 and series 12,
which also cover the harvest months, and originals or typescripts of copies
found in this series may be found there.