PETER POND:
An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
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OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Pond, Peter, 1740-1807. | |
| Title: | Peter Pond papers, | |
| Dates: | 1773-1777. | |
| Abstract: | Two versions of Pond's narrative of his early life as a fur trader and soldier in the "Northwest" and along the St. Peter's (Minnesota) River; fur trade accounts used at Grand Portage, 1773-1775, by Pond and his partner Felix Graham; and a list of supplies to be used by Pond and Greves, Grand Portage (1775). | |
| Quantity: | 0.2 cubic feet (1 box). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description section for shelf location. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
This collection comprises photostatic and typewritten copies of miscellaneous materials relating to fur trader Peter Pond, made from originals and photostats in several repositories. They consist of two versions or copies of Pond's narrative of his early life as a fur trader and a soldier in the "Northwest" and along the St. Peter's (Minnesota) River; fur trade accounts listing articles used at Grand Portage, 1773-1775, by Pond and his partner Felix Graham; and a list of supplies for Pond and Greves, Grand Portage (1775).
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance:
The 2nd edition of Five Fur Traders of the Northwest and accession file 9936 provide additional provenance information. See also Minnesota History 19:95.
The business records are discussed in Harold I. Innis, Peter Pond, Fur Trader and Adventurer (Toronto, 1930), pp. 150-152. See also Bruce M. White, comp., The Fur Trade in Minnesota (St. Paul, 1977), entry no. 79.
Restrictions:
Reproduction rights are reserved on one of Pond's narratives.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Peter Pond Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 3551; 3575A; 4007; 9936
Processing Information:
Processed by: Lydia Lucas, February 1996
Catalog ID number: 09-00040329
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| P851 | Pond's Narrative | ||||||||||
| The first copy (accession no. 4007, negative photostat, 34 pages) was received in 1935, made from a photostatic copy held by the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) Library. The original was at that time in private hands; in 1947 it was donated to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.). This version was published in Charles M. Gates, ed., Five Fur Traders of the Northwest (University of Minnesota Press, 1933). | |||||||||||
| The Minnesota Historical Society received the second copy (accession no. 9936, Xerox copy, 32 pages) from Yale University in 1965 and used it as the basis for a new transcription that was published in the second edition of Five Fur Traders of the Northwest (St. Paul, 1965). Further reproduction or publication requires permission from Yale University. | |||||||||||
| The narrative has also been published, with an introduction by Mrs. Nathan G. Pond and R. W. McLaughlan, as the "Journal of `Sir' Peter Pond," in the Connecticut Magazine 10:239-259 (June 1906); and as a section of "The British Regime in Wisconsin," edited by Reuben G. Thwaites, in Wisconsin Historical Collections 18:314-354 (Madison, 1908). | |||||||||||
| Fur trade accounts, 1773-1775. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
| A positive and a negative photostatic copy, with a typed transcript and an explanatory narrative and notes by R. Harvey Fleming (accession no. 3551). The originals are in the John R. Williams Papers in the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit (Michigan) Public Library. Some of the copies were given tot he Society by Fleming; they were his personal copies which he made from the Burton Collection originals. The accounts list quantities and value of trade goods articles received from Graham and others, and of peltries delivered to him. | |||||||||||
| Grand Portage supplies list, 1775. | |||||||||||
| Photocopy (4 pages) and typed transcript (1 page) of a list of supplies and trade goods, headed "Adventure to the N. W. per Messrs. Pond & Greeves, Grand Portage, 22d July, 1775." The original is in the Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo, N.Y. (accession no. 3575A). Another typed transcript of this list is included among the fur trade accounts, above. | |||||||||||
RELATED MATERIALS
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Fur trade -- Minnesota
- Fur trade -- Northwestern states.
- Places:
- Grand Portage (Minn.).
- Persons:
- Graham, Felix.
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