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Manuscripts
The letter is an inquiry as to whether Harper and Brothers (now Harper & Row) would be interested in publishing Helper's manuscript on California, then titled "Nojoque; or Eureka Rambles and Southern Rights." In the letter, Helper proposes terms for publication and explains that his manuscript is intended to disabuse readers of any idealistic and romantic impressions they might have of California. The book was eventually published privately for Helper in Baltimore under the title "The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction."
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Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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