Letter of Hon. James Shields

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  James Shields letter to Thomas W. McCalla

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  James Shields wrote this letter when he was commissioner of the General Land Office in Washington, D.C. In the letter he is notifying Thomas W. McCalla of an appointment "to a clerkship in this office." It is accompanied by an engraving of James Shields.

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  Selected poems of Wilmer B. Shields

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  An elegy upon the death of that famous and faithful minister and martyr Mr. James Renwick, : composed immediately after his execution at Edinburgh, 17th February, 1688. By Mr. Alexander Shields

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  The history of Scotch-presbytery: : being an epitome of The hind let loose, by Mr. Shields. With a preface by a presbyter of the Church of Scotland

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  Church-communion enquired into:, or a treatise against separation from this national Church of Scotland. ... Which was left in manuscripts by ... Alexander Shields

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  Shields, J. Howard to James De Barth Shorb

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  The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.

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