Scope and content Correspondence includes letters between Aaron Weeks Raymond and business associates, friends, his son Charles H. Raymond, and other relatives concerning the oil industry and the Raymond oil wells; Raymond investments and the value of family holdings; the bankruptcy of Culver, Penn and Company, in which Aaron Raymond had invested; proposals from Jay Cook for the purchase of land; the construction of a railroad to Oil City, Pennsylvania; the anthracite industry in Raymilton, Pennsylvania;...