Series 2: Fish business records, 1837-1947, inclusive

This sub-series includes five letter books maintained by Wenman, 1897-1942. These letters represent correspondence sent by Wenman on behalf of Fish, as well as personal business and genealogical correspondence of Wenman's. In addition, as secretary and accountant to the Fish enterprise, there are also balance sheets of income taxes paid by Fish, inquiries into business ventures, and copies of mortgages and deeds. Also included are legal documents concerning the alliance made between Fish family members after the death of the elder Fish, in their "Union-That-Nothing-Be-Lost" corporation deal of 1924-1926; and correspondence and balance sheets involving the Illinois Central Railroad, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Continental Railroad, and the Commonwealth Trust Company (also know as the Mercantile Trust).

Sub-series 2 concerns the Telautograph Corporation, 1915-1926, a venture concerning the use of the telegraph system to reproduce handwritten messages. This sub-series includes balance statements, progress reports, stockholder statements, correspondence, and stockholder notices.

Sub-series 3, Real estate, 1837-1941, contains an abstract of Fish land holdings on 6th Street to 9th Street between Avenues C and D in Manhattan. Minutes, audits, rental assessments, and a rent collection ledger for 194-196 East 3rd Street in Manhattan are included under the Petersfield Realty Firm. A deduction of title and map of the Petersfield Farm area of Manhattan, now the Gramercy Park neighborhood, is also included in this subseries. While there are deeds, mortgages, and titles in sub-series 1, they deal with property owned or lived on by the Fish family. The items in this sub-series constitute land that was rented or sold by the Fish family through the Petersfield Realty Firm.