Series XVI: Margaret Chanler Rutherfurd

There is little material in this subseries dating from before 1871, and very little material from the years 1874-1884. Most of the correspondence is from Margaret Chanler Rutherfurd, husband, Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, and from her children, particularly Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and Margaret Rutherfurd White.

Subjects include Lewis Morris Rutherfurd's account of a trip to Great Britain in 1871, including his observations on ladies' fashions of the day. During her European tour with her husband in 1873, Margaret Chanler Rutherfurd received numerous letters, particularly from Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, concerning family and social affairs in New York. In the summer of 1884, he writes to her about his experiences on a hunting trip to Montana and Wyoming. Letters from her daughter Margaret Rutherfurd White in 1890 describe social events and the Whites' acquaintance with prominent persons in London.

Some of the undated letters appear to have been written when Margaret Chanler Rutherfurd was caring for the children's dying grandmother, apparently Margaret Chanler Rutherfurd's own mother. Other letters appear to have been written to her adult children as they traveled as a party in Europe.

From business in Europe and New York, for household such as silverware, rugs, lamps, items, fabrics, etc. Some receipts are for her contributions to charities, such as the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children.