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Letters from Mary E. Hewitt to Poe
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Four letters from Mary E. Fisher to her friend Mary Beach. The first three letters are written from Fisher's home in Huron, South Dakota, where she had just moved with her husband from the nearby smaller town of Cavour. She describes her delight at living in a larger community with a nicer house; local news such as elections, temperance movements, the local economy, crop failures, and the weather; and also family issues including the work of her husband and children and the traveling they had to do. She also relates her concern for the impoverished families of Huron, and her efforts to help with food and clothing donations for Christmas. Fisher's final letter in 1899 is from Minneapolis, where the family moved due to her husband's constant traveling to the area for his work.
mssFisher
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Manuscripts
Four letters from Mary E. Fisher to her friend Mary Beach. The first three letters are written from Fisher's home in Huron, South Dakota, where she had just moved with her husband from the nearby smaller town of Cavour. She describes her delight at living in a larger community with a nicer house; local news such as elections, temperance movements, the local economy, crop failures, and the weather; and also family issues including the work of her husband and children and the traveling they had to do. She also relates her concern for the impoverished families of Huron, and her efforts to help with food and clothing donations for Christmas. Fisher's final letter in 1899 is from Minneapolis, where the family moved due to her husband's constant traveling to the area for his work.
mssFisher
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352815
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609901
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Manuscripts
The collection consists chiefly of articles, speeches, and manuscripts written by Randall H. Hewitt. These manuscripts cover a variety of subjects including: the Salton Sea and water supply in California; the Colorado desert; the postal service; railway mail service; the Western Union Telegraph Company; railroads, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway and the Southern Pacific Company; William Mulholland, Sir William Willcocks, Colonel George W. Goethals and the Los Angeles Aqueduct; the Panama Canal; the city of Los Angeles; the Rio Grande and floods in El Paso, and Juarez and Nogales, Mexico. Most of the speeches were given before the Los Angeles Pioneer Society. There is also one scrapbook with copies of articles by Hewitt and others and a typed copy of a letter by Jonas Winchester to Horace Greeley regarding newspapers in California, gold mining and San Francisco. There are also two newspaper clippings.
mssHM 71455-71475
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Manuscripts
17 letters from Mary E. Copeland (1838-1898) in National City, San Diego, California, to her cousin H. Emma Bull in Harvard, Massachusetts. The letters begin in January 1870, when the Copeland family had recently moved from Harvard to the San Diego area. The letters focus on news relating to family and acquaintances both in San Diego and Harvard, and include references to Mary's interest in the Southern Pacific Railroad; the newspapers and magazines the family is reading; Mary's various illnesses; Mary's husband Fred Copeland (1833-1906) and his surveying work in Mexico; the Copeland children's education; the desire of Fred's sister to leave Shakerism; and the family's New-Churchmen religious beliefs. Also includes two letters from Mary to other members of the Bull family and one letter from Fred Copeland to "Brother Bull" (T.Bull).
mssHM 72812-72831