pp. 145-208 of typed material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Watkins, J. Elfreth (John Elfreth), 1852-1903
label: Collection Creator
content: Stevens, John, 1749-1838
setName: label: See more items in
content: John Stevens Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1813
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters of John Stevens to Cadwallader Colden, including a 52 page reply (apparently never sent to Colden) to Robert Fulton's "statement of facts" (see folder 2), detailing Stevens' negotiations with Fulton and Livingston over rights to operate steamboats and Stevens' history of inventions and improvements in developing the steamboat.