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Edward Cox Davis collection
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Davis, Edward M
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Four pieces of correspondence to Otis Chandler from the Los Angeles City Chief of Police, Edward M. Davis. One is a photocopy. The other two have attachments. One has a note attached to it. The other has a copy of a report to the Police Commission, dated March 8, 1971 and a copy of the Commission's letter to the City Council.
mssLAT
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Land patent to Julian Estrada for Rancho Santa Rosa
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Land patent to Julian Estrada, March 18, 1865, for 13,183.62 acres in San Louis Obispo County, with certified copies of the survey and plat dated May 3, 1859, San Francisco, Calif., and signed by J.W. Mandeville, the Surveyor General of California. The patent recorded in San Luis Obispo. No. 323 General Land Office map. Signed by Abraham Lincoln.
mssHM 84430
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Popielecka, Marianna. Letters to Ludwik Opid, 1938 (8 items)
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Consists of letters and postcards dated: January 28 (postcard); March 25 (postcard); May 2 (postcard); May 18 (with envelope); July 3 (postcard); July 18 (postcard); [October 2?] (with envelope); and 29 November 1938.
mssModjeska
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Benjamin Davis Wilson Collection
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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin Davis Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Frémont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
mssWN 1-2419
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Edward Davis Townsend papers
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A collection of the personal and professional papers of Edward Davis Townsend. Included in the collection are official and private correspondence, chiefly letters addressed to him, military records, journals, memoirs, and a few photographs. Two journals cover the 2nd Seminole War from 1837 to 1838, and his service in California from 1851 to 1856. The latter was incorporated into a memoir entitled "A Trip to California;" both accounts are accompanied by pencil sketches. An unfinished memoir covers Townsend's life and career until the beginning of the Mexican War. The collection also contains a group of personal and political correspondence of Elbridge Gerry, including pieces related to his diplomatic and political career from 1772 to 1814, and the correspondence of Ann Thompson Gerry and Eliza Gerry Townsend. Also included are a copy of Samuel Auchmuty's 1761 sermon on 1 John 5:7, and contemporary copies of Jefferson Davis's letters to his wife Varina Howell Davis from 1861 to 1865. The collection also includes a spool of thread with a hidden note in it, 1861 February 10, and a cotton ball from the steamer Emma, which was loaded with cotton when its crew burned it at Fort Pulaski on August 31, 1862, to prevent its capture by the Union forces under the command of William B. Barton.
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John Parker Davis letter to Albert B. Paine
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A letter from John Parker Davis to Albert B. Paine in response to questions posed by Paine for his biography of Thomas Nast. Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was born in Germany and became the most famous 19th century American cartoonist and caricaturist. Davis goes on at great length describing his memories of Nast and corrects various facts and anecdotes Paine might include in the biography. Davis also includes reminiscences of other famous engravers and historical figures such as Solomon Eytinge and Abraham Lincoln. The letter is autograph with typewritten pages inserted between various pages; some autograph pages have been trimmed with loss of text. Accompanying the letter is a typewritten list of names and dates of persons mentioned in the letter; there is also a slip of paper with the number 397, perhaps a lot number from an auction sale as the letter does have penciled manuscript dealer notations.
mssHM 83792