Approx. 24 items, including about 16 business letters, 4 manuscript receipts, and 4 partially printed bills of lading.

Commission merchants Jackson, Riddle & Company, later Jackson, Todd and Riddle, were based in Philadelphia, with interests in Liverpool. The firm dealt in the sale of cotton, sugar, tobacco, sheet iron, nails and coal. An interesting group of items shedding light on the details of commercial activities in the 1830's. Many of the letters are from agents in Liverpool - one is on a lettersheet with lithographed facsimile of letter regarding cotton market.