Includes: Instructions to the leader of the expeditionary party ... [Philadelphia? 1898?]. Typescript. With this is bound "Exploration memorandum", Nos. 2-4. Also includes: Exploration Memorandum No. 2-4. Philadelphia, 1898. Typescript, part carbon.
Partly narrative, partly journal form. With: Miscellaneous unsorted papers, including newspaper clippings and a typed receipt for bank books, safe deposit keys, insurance commissions, etc.
The papers consist of correspondence between Thomas R. Hill, Jennie M. Hill, Angelo Heilprin, and others, Thomas Hill's journal and drawings of gold mining in Alaska, and papers of the Philadelphia Exploration and Mining Company, which organized to mine in Alaska.