Box 17

Includes letters to Richard Mead Atwater's brother, Ned, from Moses Brown School and to other family members about his family after marriage and the birth of children

Topics of the correspondence include:[children do housework, he instructs on financial matters, is advised to take course in physics and engineering; cultural life] (Nov. 10,1890); a good deal of discussion of social aspect of their lives in several letters

Includes letters mostly to daughter Sophie, indicating she may have to return home to keep house for him (rest of family in Berlin), social functions he is attending; asks about machinery and patents relating to Solvay business

To son Christopher, on business matters including coke ovens, boilers, bricks, instructing him on business procedures; [on the importance of a good marriage: "strengthening his [a man's] character, defining his ambition & saving a great deal of waste of time & money in desultory society dalliance"] (Nov. 7, 1895)

Mostly to son Christopher with two letters of response, on details of business matters and some philosophy