Letters from Williams

The collection contains a range of materials from correspondence and business papers to scrapbooks and legal documents. The first set of materials deals with papers specific to Ezekiel Williams Jr. such as letters from Corenelius Vanderbilt and Noah Webster Jr., as well as business papers, both related and unrelated, to his work as a nautical insurance representative. The second set deals with papers from other family memebers, such as his wife, Mrs. Ezekiel Williams Jr. and their son, Oliver Ellsworth Williams. These papers include more correspondence from notables such as Lydia Huntley Sigourney, American poet, Daniel Webster, and Corenelius Vanderbilt, legal papers, and scapbooks from the mid 1800s. The last set of materials are papers that were created outside of the Williams family including correspondence, a manuscript poem from Lydia Huntley Sigourney and other miscellaneous prose, as well as the diaries of Dr. Samuel Norwood of Norwich, CT,.