Correspondence,, 1882-1952 and undated

Summary: Letters received by John A. Roebling II, largely from family members, dating from the 1880s (his childhood and attendance at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) through the 1930s, with a few dating from the 1940s and 1950s; also copies of letters sent to family members and business associates (1893-1938).

Featured are letters from Margaret S. (McIlvaine) Roebling, Washington A. Roebling, Emily Warren Roebling, Karl G. Roebling, and the Rev. Hamilton Schuyler. The series also includes a few letters from Ferdinand W. Roebling, Secretary/Treasurer of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, concerning John A. Roebling II's investments and involvement in the company.

Some of the letters from Washington A Roebling have been included in "The Roebling Letters," compiled by Clarence E. Case.

Among the documents in the series are letters received from: Emily Warren Roebling, dated June 6, 1896, written from Paris and describing her experiences in Moscow where she met the Czar and Czarina, and describing the Roebling exhibit in the Jersey House at the World Fair in 1893; Washington A Roebling, dated April 20, 1906, concerning the damage done to the John A Roebling's Sons Company's San Francisco office during the earthquake and subsequent fire, the collapse of the Quebec Bridge in 1907, and financial matters; and by the Rev. Hamilton Schuyler, dated September 18, 1930, containing a prospectus for The Roeblings: A Century of Engineers, Bridge-Builders and Industrialists, a book on the Roebling family's history.

Letters sent includes discussion of the Spanish American War (1898); and John A Roebling's II future service as president of the John A Roebling's Sons Company and the prospects of selling the wire rope company.

A map of Seven Mile Beach at Stone Harbor, New Jersey annotated and enclosed in a letter from Washington A Roebling is stored with oversize materials.