Title: Grimes Real Estate Company correspondence, February - September 1899

Identifier: 0054-s2-b14-fa   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/63216)

Description: Folder of Grimes Real Estate Company correspondence dated February - September 1899. Much of the correspondence is addressed to J. Bryan Grimes (1868-1923). The Grimes Real Estate Company was a firm that promoted the sale and development of land in Pitt and Beaufort counties. Among the correspondence in the Grimes Real Estate Company files are letters of Elias Carr and Samuel Lindsay Patterson (February, 1899) that describe the desirability of eastern North Carolina for agriculture. Two letters of W. F. Massey (March, 1899) discuss malaria in the area and ways to prevent it.