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A letter to Friends of Port Isaac in Cornwall, from Thomas Gwin, late of Falmouth
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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
In this letter to an unspecified individual, Gwin declines giving his recommendation for a naval pursership. Includes engraved portrait of Gwin.
mssHM 21328
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Manuscripts
This collection contains correspondence and documents primarily accumulated by English civil servant William Blathwayt (1649-1717) in his capacity as a British government official in such roles as Surveyor and Auditor General of Plantation Revenues and Secretary and member of the Lords of Trade. The bulk of the papers date from 1660 to 1709 and chiefly relate to the British colonies in North America and the West Indies .
BL 291
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Manuscripts
Letter from William McKendree Gwin to P. Greely, Jr., sent from Washington City, California. In the letter Gwin writes of his willingness to comply with a request of William Barry (or Berry). He also gives his thoughts on California ("We (the U.S.) must expend vast sums of money to that country and...labor and material must be furnished") and writes of his impending visit with the Secretary of the Treasury regarding the "Revenue System in California." Written sometime in the 1850s. Part of the letter has been torn and is missing.
mssHM 74756