Manuscripts
1849-1869
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1870-1899
Manuscripts
The George A. Gillespie papers consist of letters, documents, and manuscripts related to California politics and Gillespie's family from 1849 to 1899. Included is material on national politics during the same period. Correspondents include John Bidwell, Jacob P. Leese, William S. Johnston, Aaron Augustus Sargent, and James McCord Stilson.
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George A. Gillespie papers
Manuscripts
The George A. Gillespie papers consist of letters, documents, and manuscripts related to California politics and Gillespie's family from 1849 to 1899. Included is material on national politics during the same period.
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[Moreno, José Matías]. Letter to María Amparao Ruiz de Burton, 1832-1895
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Mutilated draft. Leese, Jacob P. (Jacob Primer), 1809-1892; San Francisco (Calif.)—Politics and government
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Fernald, Chester Bailey, 1869-1938 to Janet M. (Janet Moore) Peck
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The collection consists of the personal correspondence of Orrin Peck and his sister, Janet Peck. There are 119 letters from Phoebe Apperson Hearst and these letters discuss her philanthropy in the fields of art and education, her son William Randolph Hearst, their life in California, travels in Europe, and San Francisco and national politics. Other correspondents include: Pablo Casals (1), John Drew (1), William Randolph Hearst (7), Lou Henry Hoover (4), Carl von Marr (179), and John Singer Sargent (17).
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Edmund Kirby papers
Manuscripts
Letters that Edward Kirby wrote to his wife and eldest son Jake between 1827 and July 1848 constitute the largest portion of the collection. Kirby's peacetime letters describe his travels in Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York State, and his trips to Washington, D.C., and discuss family news, business investments, the management of his two-thousand acre farm, the increasingly complicated financial affairs, the fallout from the Panic of 1837, and local news, including the events of the Patriot War (1837) in the neighboring Canada. Kirby, a leader of the local Whigs, also discusses state and national politics, in particular the internal improvements, protective tariff, and the annexation of Texas. Kirby also recounts Washington news and rumors and comments on various aspects of military life as well as the news of the Second Seminole War. Included is a 1840 letter from William H. Seward soliciting Kirby's opinion on the "candidates." Kirby's letters written during the Black Hawk War discuss the progress of the war, the outbreak of cholera, peace negotiations, and the allegations against Winfield Scott. The Mexican War letters describe Kirby's journey to Northern Mexico and his war experiences, including the battle of Monterey, the siege and taking of Vera Cruz, the battles that marked Scott's march to Mexico City, and the occupation of the Mexican capital. Kirby also recounts news that were circulated at Taylor's and Scott's headquarters, in particular rumors of the eagerly awaited peace negotiations, discusses the financial operations of the United States Army, and shares his impressions of Mexico. The letters describe Winfield Scott, Nathan Towson, William Jenkins Worth, Zachary Taylor, John E. Wool, Jefferson Davis, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, George Gordon Meade, his nephew Edmund Kirby Smith, and others. Also included are Kirby's commissions and his certificate of membership in the Aztec Club. The collection also includes letters that Edmund Kirby, Jr. wrote to his brother Reynold Marvin Kirby in 1860-1863. The letters counsel his brother on the course of his studies and a college selection, (Marvin chose to go to the Geneva College, and his brother paid his tuition), vividly describe the life at the Military Academy on the eve of the Civil War, and discuss the secession crisis and other aspects of national politics. The letters written from the battlefields in Virginia describe the Union positions at Edwards Ferry and the Mud March of 1862 and blast the radical Republicans in Congress. The last letter, entirely devoted to Marvin's studies, is dated March 3, 1863. Also included is a letter of condolence from Henry Jackson Hunt to Kirby's mother. Also included are two letters addressed to Ephraim Kirby from Uriah Tracy (1788, Oct. 18), reporting on the on the proceedings of the state General Assembly, including the passage of "a very benevolent act relative to Africans" and Aaron Burr (1801, Feb.) requesting an urgent meeting, and Gideon Grange's letter to Thomas Worthington introducing Ephraim Kirby as the newly appointed commissioner on the Spanish Boundary.
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Orrin M. Peck papers
Manuscripts
This collection consists mainly of the personal correspondence of Orrin M. Peck (1860-1921) and his sister, Janet M. (Janet Moore) Peck (b. 1878). As an artist Orrin was in contact with and befriended many other artists of the time, and the collection contains correspondence from Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911), Pablo Casals (1876-1973), John Drew (1853-1927), Neville Lytton (b. 1879), Carl von Marr (1858-1936), Lillian Nordica (1857-1914), Joseph Pennell (1857- 1926), and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), as well as references to Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914). As the Peck family moved in the various social circles of the elite in San Francisco, the letters often discuss the political environment in the city during the 19th and 20th centuries as well as national politics during this same time period. Thus there is correspondence from Frances Folsom Cleveland (1864-1947), John James Ingalls (1833-1900), Henry C. Ide (1844-1921), and Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944). References may also be found regarding Enrique Loynaz del Castillo (1871-1963), James D. Phelan (1861-1930), Lillie Hitchcock Coit (1843-1929), and John D. Spreckels (b. 1853). Orrin M. Peck and Janet M. Peck were quite social, with Orrin spending many evenings at the Bohemian Club and Janet throwing dinner parties, they associated with a variety of people such as Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (1857- 1941), Charles A. Dana (1819-1897), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944), William Orton Tewson (1877-1947), and Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861-1933). An additional note, many correspondents refer to Janet as "Jen, Jenny, or Jennie." There are 119 letters in the collection from Phoebe Apperson Hearst, which span the dates of 1885-1917. These letters discuss her philanthropy in the fields of art and education, life in California, her son William Randolph Hearst, her travels to different countries in Europe and Asia, and national politics. Throughout the collection correspondents make numerous references to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and to their opinions and activities in regards to World War I and II. Lastly two letters contain references to Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), one from a man with the last name Deven written to Orrin M. Peck in 1906 in regards to his art and literary collections and the other from Margaret H. Peck dated August 30th, but with no year, in regards to his developments in Pasadena, California.
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