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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Directory of the city of Mobile. 1861, 1866
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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
A collection of personal correspondence of Christian T. Christensen, chiefly letters addressed to him. Included are letters received by Christensen on the occasion of his retirement from the Army in June 1865, a few official communications and personal letters received by Christensen during his war service, and a telegram from James T. Holtzclaw negotiating the surrender of Mobile, Alabama (April 1865). The post-war correspondence includes letters from Eunice Ward Beecher and Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Abbott, William Tecumseh Sherman, and others, chiefly concerning his charity work and Civil War experience. Also included are Christensen's military commissions and other documents, an address entitled "Women's influence" that Christensen delivered at the Working Women's Club on November 10, 1887, and a letter soliciting donations for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute signed by Booker T. Washington (1904).
mssHM 50580-50642
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts and documents related to William Newton Meeks, his wife, Abigail, and their children. There are also materials related to his brother, Robert Smelt Meeks, and to the Meeks and Davis families (including genealogical notes and charts). Additional persons represented in the collection include: Charles Sylvanus Davis (brother of Abigail), Mary E. Meeks Haydock, Constance Adelia Meeks, Edward Meeks, and Susan Molineux Meeks. The collection includes descriptions of and life in Bolivia, 1837 to 1861, Chile, 1849 to 1861, France, and San Francisco, California, including the earthquake of 1906.
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