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Augustus Franklin Tripp, the inner man
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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
This typewritten account details an excursion coordinated by Raymond & Whitcomb Inc. to California by train from Feb. 17-April 21. The journey began in Buffalo, NY, where Mr. Tripp, his wife and several of their friends boarded the train for their trip west. The train traveled to California via Chicago, Kansas City, Santa Fe, Flagstaff, and San Bernardino before arriving in Pasadena, CA. They visited Pasadena, Altadena, the San Gabriel Mission, downtown Los Angeles, Redondo Beach, Riverside, and San Diego before heading north. They visited Santa Barbara, Monterey & 17 mile drive, and in the San Francisco Bay Area saw Chinatown, the Lick Observatory and the U.S. Mint. On their return trip eastward, they traveled through Sacramento and Salt Lake City before stopping for visits at the Royal Gorge and Garden of the Gods in Colorado en route to Chicago and Buffalo, NY
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Manuscripts
The papers consist primarily of correspondence written by Franklin A. Buck from 1846 to 1881 to his sister, Mary Sewall Bradley, living in Bucksport, Maine . The collection consists of 225 cataloged items, 1 piece of ephemera, and 150 envelopes. They detail his activities in New York City until early 1849 and then his life in various parts of California and Nevada from 1849 to 1881. Because Franklin regularly addresses his letters and envelopes to his sister as Mary Sewall Bradley and does not include her maiden name, the cataloging of the collection reflects this use. Most of the letters detail Buck's life in California and Nevada between 1849 and 1881, and they document various floods, local and national politics, and the Civil War. The letters also illustrate the nature of frontier and pioneer life, gold and silver mining, ranching, and 19th century social life and customs in California and Nevada. The Weaverville letters also include descriptions of the local Chinese community, and the collection is dotted with comments by Buck on the California and Nevada Indians. The collection also contains five letters from Franklin to his father, Rufus A. Buck, who was also living in Bucksport, maine. There are also six letters to Mary Sewall Bradley from Franklin's younger brother, Sewall Buck, which were written from California between 1851-1854. There is also an exchange of letters between Franklin and a friend named Edwin Kirk in San Francisco, California, in 1852. At the end of the collection is a typed document by Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1868-1966) which discusses the Franklin A. Buck correspondence. Portions of many of the letters were published in A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush: The Letters of Franklin A. Buck, compiled by Katherine A. White (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930).
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Manuscripts
The papers consist primarily of correspondence from 1846-1881 written by Franklin A. Buck to his sister, Mary Sewall Bradley. Most of the letters detail his life in California and Nevada between 1849-1881, and they document various floods, local and national politics, and the Civil War. The letters also illustrate the nature of frontier and pioneer life, gold and silver mining, ranching, and 19th century social life and customs in California and Nevada. The Weaverville letters also include descriptions of the local Chinese community, and the collection is dotted with comments by Buck on the California and Nevada Indians. The collection also contains five letters from Franklin to his father, Rufus A. Buck. There are also six letters to Mary Sewall Bradley from another brother, Sewall Buck, which were written from California between 1851-1854.
HM 60472.
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Manuscripts
The papers consist primarily of correspondence from 1846-1881 written by Franklin A. Buck to his sister, Mary Sewall Bradley. Most of the letters detail his life in California and Nevada between 1849-1881, and they document various floods, local and national politics, and the Civil War. The letters also illustrate the nature of frontier and pioneer life, gold and silver mining, ranching, and 19th century social life and customs in California and Nevada. The Weaverville letters also include descriptions of the local Chinese community, and the collection is dotted with comments by Buck on the California and Nevada Indians. The collection also contains five letters from Franklin to his father, Rufus A. Buck. There are also six letters to Mary Sewall Bradley from another brother, Sewall Buck, which were written from California between 1851-1854.
HM 60644.
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Manuscripts
The papers consist primarily of correspondence from 1846-1881 written by Franklin A. Buck to his sister, Mary Sewall Bradley. Most of the letters detail his life in California and Nevada between 1849-1881, and they document various floods, local and national politics, and the Civil War. The letters also illustrate the nature of frontier and pioneer life, gold and silver mining, ranching, and 19th century social life and customs in California and Nevada. The Weaverville letters also include descriptions of the local Chinese community, and the collection is dotted with comments by Buck on the California and Nevada Indians. The collection also contains five letters from Franklin to his father, Rufus A. Buck. There are also six letters to Mary Sewall Bradley from another brother, Sewall Buck, which were written from California between 1851-1854.
HM 60597.