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As prescribed by law : a treatise on Folsom Prison
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Rare Books
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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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Rare Books
647440
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Manuscripts
Letter book of George Folsom kept from September 2, 1850 to October 20, 1853, while he was chargé d'affaires of the United States legation in the Netherlands. The letters, written to various American government officials, discuss the preparations for Matthew Perry's expedition to Japan (including the effort to obtain coastal maps of Japan and Walter Henry Medhurst's Japanese dictionary); the case of William A. Seely, a New York lawyer involved in recovering the Dutch crown jewels stolen in 1828; the effort to dislodge a gentleman who claimed to be the consul of the Republic of Texas; and diplomatic implications of the 1848 constitutional reform in the Netherlands.
mssHM 83981
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Manuscripts
Letters from Simeon P. Folsom of Co. H, 7th Regiment Minnesota Volunteers, to his wife, Mary D. Folsom and daughter, Hariet Octavia Folsom, written during the punitive 1863 Sibley Expedition against the Dakota Sioux in Minnesota and Dakota Territory in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War.
mssHM 27789-27806
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Folsom writes of an ongoing legal matter with some intentional vagueness, fearing that his letter may be intercepted.
mssHM 19070
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269233
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This document details the lease agreement between Anna Sparks and See Soong Tong for a lot of land in San Francisco, California. Printed form, filled in and signed.
mssHM 19068