Subseries: Letterbooks of Related Companies
Scope and Content Note: This section of the OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE incorporates miscellaneous correspondence of Singer's subsidiary corporations and companies taken over by Singer. These volumes are arranged alphabetically by company name and chronologically thereunder.

Bourne & Co. Ltd. (South Africa), 1902 April-September
Scope and Content Note: The correspondence of Bourne and Company, Ltd., Singer's South African subsidiary, 1902-1920, consists of outgoing correspondence of Douglas Alexander, C.C. Foster, Coleman, and E.W. Church. These letters are primarily routine acknowledgements and routine financial inquiries. The final item in the volume is a report concerning business conditions in the Middle East in 1920.

Mathison Button Company (Boston), 1892? March-1894? May

National Sewing Machine Company
Scope and Content Note: The National Machine Company letters refer to a manufacturer of buttonhole machines which were mounted on Singer sewing machine heads and sold by Singer as the exclusive agent. The correspondence appears to relate almost entirely to the business this company did with Singer. Although the volumes may relate to two types of correspondence (one containing routine matters and the other containing letters of greater importance) the holdings are not sufficiently complete to establish the fact. As a result, the volumes are arranged together chronologically by beginning date.

Vol. 1: , 1887 February-1888 March

Vol. 2: , 1887 September-1889 March

Vol. 3: , 1888 November-1899 April

Vol. 4: , 1888 August-1899 December

Vol. 5: , 1889 December-1890 September

Vol. 6: , 1891 June-1892 December 2

Vol. 7: , 1892 August-1893 August

Vol. 8: , 1893 April-December

Singer Sewing Machine Company, Management letters Vol. 1, 1903 June-1924 January
Scope and Content Note: This volume of correspondence of the Singer Sewing Machine Company contains outgoing letters of Douglas Alexander, C.C. Foster, and Oscar Graham from the Singer office at New York to agents around the world and to other companies and individuals. Alexander signs these letters as president. The correspondence is weighted toward U.S. agents and primarily deals with prices, policies, shipments, and patents.

Wheeler & Wilson
Scope and Content Note: The Wheeler and Wilson Company correspondence consists of two volumes, 1905-1907, from the period after Singer had assumed control, together with one isolated volume from an earlier time. In the later volumes is outgoing correspondence of Douglas Alexander, circa Coleman, Oscar Graham, and C.C. Foster to Singer agents abroad, patent lawyers, and various other individuals and companies. Douglas Alexander signs these letters as president, with Coleman and Foster as secretary and Graham as treasurer of Wheeler and Wilson Company. The letters deal largely with patent and trademark matters, shipments, arrangements with agents abroad, and contracts with other companies.

1873 November-1874 May

1905 December-1906 July

1906 July-1907 August