Summary Information

Title: Thomas Steel Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1660, 1834-1909

Creator:

• Steel, Thomas, 1809-1896

Call Number: Wis Mss 51PB

Quantity: 0.4 c. f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Mainly correspondence, 1834-1860, of Thomas Steel, a Waukesha County, Wisconsin, physician and farmer with his family in England, describing his voyages to India and China as a ship's doctor and his efforts to find a fruitful medical practice in the United States and Canada. Later letters comment on his struggles to homestead and eke out a living as a rural physician; some discuss the Socialist Society of Equality, a group with which Steel immigrated to Wisconsin in 1843 to establish a socialistic community. Other letters mention local and national political affairs. There is also a folder of miscellaneous legal documents, including an agreement written in Middle English, November 9, 1660, concerning the use of land at Inveraray, Scotland.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis051pb